GitHub announced on Friday their updated community guidelines that explain how the company will deal with exploits and malware samples hosted on their service.
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A VMware vulnerability with a severity rating of 9.8 out of 10 is under active exploitation. At least one reliable exploit has gone public, and there have been successful attempts in the wild to compromise servers that run the vulnerable software.
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NTT Ltd., a world-leading global technology services provider, today launched its 2021 Global Threat Intelligence Report (GTIR), which reveals how hackers are taking advantage of the global destabilization by targeting essential industries and common vulnerabilities from the shift to remote working. Healthcare, manufacturing, and finance industries all saw an increase in attacks (200%, 300%, and 53% respectively), with these top three sectors accounting for a combined total of 62% of all attacks in 2020, up 11% from 2019.
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It took nearly seven years for the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) to log its first million complaints. It took only 14 months to add the most recent million.
The IC3 logged five million complaints on March 12, 2020, a few weeks before it marked its 20th anniversary. After a period of record reporting, the center received its 6 millionth complaint on May 15, 2021.
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WhatsApp filed the lawsuit Wednesday in the Delhi High Court. It is arguing that government rules regarding the traceability of messages are unconstitutional and undermine the fundamental right to privacy.
The company currently uses end-to-end encryption for its messaging service, which encrypts messages in such a way that no one apart from the sender and receiver are able to read the messages sent between them.
Read MoreThe White House and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are asking Facebook, Google and other tech giants to give them greater access to Americans' smartphone location data. The move has set off alarm bells among privacy advocates who fear what the government may do with users' data. Some sources stressed that the effort would be anonymized and that government would not have access to specific individuals' locations. Similar and more aggressive surveillance practices have already been put to use in China, South Korea and Israel. Facebook already provides health researchers and nongovernmental organizations with data to help disease prevention efforts.
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