Saudi Arabia using stolen twitter data to target critics, a significant increase in vishing, and the Secret Service buying location data to bypass warrants- catch up on this week’s news with the Friday Five. 

Threatpost editors discuss a cryptomining malware targeting AWS systems, a recent development in a lawsuit against the IBM-owned Weather Channel app, and more.

Malicious Community Amazon Machine Images are a ripe target for hackers, say researchers.

Devices attached to trucks are for safety, quality control, and efficiency. But many are being left open to hackers.

The university said that it paid $457,000 to retrieve a decryption key after a ransomware attack encrypted student and faculty data on its servers.

We deconstruct an email phishing scam in detail so you don’t have to!

With pandemic measures continuing and political divisions deepening, security experts express concern about the security and integrity of the November election.

Have you tested your network using a breach and attack simulator? If not, Jack Wallen shows you how with Infection Monkey.

Though a ransomware attempt was thwarted, the university paid to prevent the release of student PII.

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The pandemic is old news for cybercriminals who are still targeting remote workers, but are doing so with botnets and familiar exploits.

Partnership with IFSEC enables Dark Reading to cover new areas of security and expand its audience.

APIs make your systems easier to run — and make it easier for hackers, too.

When companies defend themselves against cyberattacks, time is money.

The Digital Secretary for the UK, Oliver Dowden, has told the House of Commons that Huawei is set to be stripped of its role in the county's 5G network due to security concerns.

In the first of a series of columns set to be hosted exclusively on IFSEC Global, Sarb Sembhi, CISM, CTO & CISO, Virtually Informed outlines why physical securi

The British Security Industry Association's (BSIA) cybersecurity group has released a new code of practice for installers responsible for safety and security systems.

A Chinese mobile advertising firm has modified code in the software development kit included in more than 1,200 apps, maliciously collecting user activity and performing ad fraud, says Snyk, a software security firm.

The recent Dharma campaign by Iran-linked script kiddies shows that the ransomware is being spread not just by sophisticated, state-sponsored actors anymore.

SecAdmins working to protect infrastructure, whether defensively or offensively, may find these programming languages helpful in safeguarding apps, systems, and hardware from threats.