Top iPhone Supplier Battles WannaCry Infection
Production lines were halted for two days, and the effects to the global supply chain for mobile phones could be felt for the third quarter and beyond.
Tara Seals
About
Tara Seals has nearly 25 years of experience as a journalist, analyst and editor in the communications and technology space. Prior to Threatpost, Tara was the North American news lead for Infosecurity Magazine, and spent 13 years working for Informa (formerly Virgo Publishing), as executive editor and editor-in-chief at publications focused on both the service provider and the enterprise arenas. A Texas native, she holds a B.A. from Columbia University, lives in Western Massachusetts with her family and is on a never-ending quest for good Mexican food in the Northeast.
Consumer DNA Testing Takes a Step Towards Privacy, Transparency
Ancestry, MyHeritage and others have committed to a policy framework for the collection, protection, sharing and use of consumer genetic data.
Salesforce.com Warns Marketing Customers of Data Leakage SNAFU
Potentially impacted customers include organizations like Aldo, Dunkin Donuts, GE, HauteLook, Nestle Waters, News Corp Australia and Sony.
Top IT security barriers cited by respondents include budget constraints, and limited time to research and understand new threats.
Carrier-grade MikroTik routers are delivering potentially millions of daily cryptomining pages to a single attacker.
A suspicious WhatsApp message carried the mobile cyberweapon known as Pegasus – sold by Israel-based company NSO Group to state-level actors around the world.
A simple, 2D game raised eyebrows after it was found to be consuming big amounts of processing power.
Hardest hit were organizations using Office 365, with incidents costing more than $2 million each.
A criminal posing as a legitimate website publisher on the AdsTerra online advertising network is using maliciously gathered traffic to deliver victims to exploit kits.
The researchers saw the new version in action in a large email campaign on July 18, just one day after it debuted in underground forums.
