Hacking and Cyber Security News

German Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Adebar on Friday confirmed that Germany in connection with the case of a hacker attack on the Bundestag introduces a sanctions regime,  which includes freezing accounts and restrictions on entry to the European Union.  Hackers linked to Russian intelligence are suspected of hacking emails. Moscow denies any involvement. Adebar added that this sanctions regime allows freezing assets and restricting entry not only for individuals but also for organizations. The day before, the State Secretary of the German Foreign Ministry Miguel Berger invited the Russian Ambassador to Germany Sergei Nechaev to Berlin in connection with the case of a hacker attack on the Bundestag. Berger, on behalf of his government, "strongly condemned" the attack. He also reported on Germany's plans to use the EU's cyber sanctions regime against the Russians involved in this attack, including Dmitry Badin. The reason for this, he also called a warran

Apple is planning to invest more in streamlines and increasing its cloud-based and software services like iCloud, Newsplus, and Apple Music. The expansion will go along with devices like iPads, MacBooks, and iPhones. To be entirely sure about the reliability of the cloud-based service on all the Apple devices, the company has decided to rely on AWS (Amazon Web Services) and the cloud division. AWS, as you might know, is a subunit of Amazon that offers cloud-space solutions. According to CNBC's findings, Apple is said to pay Amazon $30 Million monthly for its cloud-based services. It also means that Apple is one of the biggest customers of AWS. Nevertheless, Apple hasn't confirmed whether it uses Amazon's cloud services besides its iCloud. According to experts, Apple also has some of its cloud services on Google. Amazon transformed the management of the data center and hosting of the applications when it brought the AWS. Being the first one to offer services like these,

All over the world companies are making cuts, the COVID-19 has lead to a major economic downfall, and companies are struggling to stay afloat by reassessing their strategies and priorities. This has made companies realize the actual value of data science in business and things are not looking good. There have been mass cuts and layoffs in tech industries including data scientists and AI specialists and many are saying that the hype over data science is finally coming down. Over the last five years the data science field has bloomed with a soaring speed and talent in data science has increased exponentially but it is expectant of companies to let this department go as when we look at direct business value, data science, unfortunately, don't add much - they fail to make the essential need-to-be list. Hence, the demand for data scientists will significantly decrease in the foreseeable future. Dipanjan Sarkar, a Data Science Lead at Applied Materials talks about AI and lose busi

As a major starting point for small businesses and government agencies to comprehend and address cybersecurity risk as they indulge with other risks, Cyber Essentials, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released the first in a series of six Cyber Essential Toolkits following its own November 2019 release. CISA's toolkits will give greater detail, insight, and assets on every one of the Cyber Essential' six "Essential Elements" of a Culture of Cyber Readiness. The launch of the introductory "Essential Element: Yourself, The Leader" will be followed every month by another toolkit to compare with every one of the six "Essential Elements." Toolkit 1 targets on the role of leadership in fashioning a culture of cyber readiness in their organization with an accentuation on methodology and investment. CISA Director Christopher Krebs says “We thank all of our partners in government and the private sector who played an essen

Github, a platform where every malicious software report is equally different in its place, manages to escape from a malware threat.  Github, an organization that united the world's largest community of coders and software developers, revealed that hackers exploited an open-source platform on its website to distribute malware. The hackers used a unique hacking tool that enabled backdoors in each software project, which the hackers used to infiltrate the software systems. "While we have seen many cases where the software supply chain was compromised by hijacking developer credentials or typosquatting popular package names, a malware that abuses the build process and its resulting artifacts to spread is both interesting and concerning for multiple reasons," said Github on its security blog. Fortunately, the hackers attempt to exploit the open-source platform was unsuccessful. Still, if it were, on the contrary, hackers could've secured a position in the softwares,

Facebook's brand image has taken a critical hit long ago falling from the top ten global brands list, the brand value has gone down by remarkable margins as the platform fell short in living up to its own standards and promises and continued making headlines for censure. Amid big scandals like Cambridge Analytica, data leaks, congressional scrutiny, the social media giant has constantly been under the radar for preferring certain gender, ethics groups, and race over others as seen in the company's allegedly flawed ad-serving algorithm.  Owing to its discriminatory ways, Facebook became a subject of critics' accusations in October 2019 when the social media giant faced a class-action lawsuit for charges of bias against gender and age. To substantiate, with the use of several advertising experiments, researchers from Northeastern University, the University of South California demonstrated in a study that Facebook has been discriminatory in ad targeting for years now and