Security news and advisories

46+ min ago   (263+ words) A revised Criminal Act allowing punishment for espionage conducted on behalf of foreign countries took effect Sunday. When the amendment passed the National Assembly in late February, it drew less attention than the controversial provision creating the crime of distortion…...

40+ min ago   (341+ words) A former National Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Festus Okoye, has said the commission’s digital platforms were targeted by cyberattacks during the 2023 presidential election. Okoye disclosed this in an interview on Deep Insights, a podcast hosted by…...

2+ hour, 27+ min ago   (471+ words) India’s Serious Fraud Investigation Office has recommended a full probe into Xiaomi over alleged foreign investment breaches and fund transfers. The inquiry intensifies pressure on the Chinese phone maker. The Beijing-based company has seen its local market share fall from…...

42+ min ago   (429+ words) An email-based scam has reportedly led to the leak of Revolut customer data. The British FinTech says sensitive information from a “limited number” of customers was exposed in a scam in which an unauthorized third party used a legitimate government…...

12+ hour, 28+ min ago   (101+ words) TALLAHASSEE, FL -- After reports of a data breach, the state agency that handles driver licenses, admits it's been hacked. The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles said in a Friday news release that it learned of a data…...

4+ hour, 11+ min ago   (1604+ words) The previous instalment ended with an apparently contradictory picture. The whales feeding off north-eastern Sakhalin were increasing in number. By 2018 the IUCN would move the western subpopulation from Critically Endangered to Endangered. Yet recovery did not mean security. A small…...

38+ min ago   (1420+ words) Context An alert has been triggered! On March 13, 2021 at 8:20PM our systems detected a suspicious Xls file (Spreadsheet file). Let’s dive …...

4+ hour, 56+ min ago   (181+ words) West Orlando News Woman Attempted to Defraud Senior in Florida, Hid Cash in Her Body A woman was arrested for attempting to defraud a Florida senior, charged for stashing cash and hiding the money inside her body according to local…...

5+ hour, 7+ min ago   (683+ words) Six in 10 cyberattacks recorded in Colombia target health sector institutions, a figure that highlights the growing exposure of hospitals and clinics to digital threats. The figure, included in a Biofile report based on a measurement analyzed from IBM’s X-Force Index,…...

8+ hour, 1+ min ago   (11+ words) The Brussels Times...