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Cyber Threats Loom as 5B People Prepare to Watch World Cup Final
The 2022 FIFA Men’s World Cup final in Qatar will be the most-watched sporting event in history — but will cybercriminals score a hat trick off its state-of-the-art digital footprint?
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Researcher Bypasses Akamai WAF
Patched several months ago, researcher reports how they used Spring Boot to sneak past Akamai’s firewall and remotely execute code.
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New Botnet Targeting Minecraft Servers Poses Potential Enterprise Threat
Microsoft warns enterprises should pay attention to a new botnet used to launch DDoS attacks on private Minecraft Java servers.
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FBI: Criminals Using BEC Attacks to Scavenge Food Shipments
Cybercriminal rats are at play: Several food suppliers and distributors have experienced hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses after fulfilling fraudulently placed orders for food and ingredient shipments.
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Organizations Unprepared for Upcoming Data Privacy Regulations
A comprehensive data privacy program requires involvement from all parts of the business that deal with personal data.
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Six Charged in Mass Takedown of DDoS-for-Hire Sites
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) today seized four-dozen domains that sold “booter” or “stresser” services — businesses that make it easy and cheap for even non-technical users to launch powerful Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks designed knock targets offline. The DOJ also charged six U.S. men with computer crimes related to their alleged…
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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, December 2022 Edition
Microsoft has released its final monthly batch of security updates for 2022, fixing more than four dozen security holes in its various Windows operating systems and related software. The most pressing patches include a zero-day in a Windows feature that tries to flag malicious files from the Web, a critical bug in PowerShell, and a…


