تويتر يطلق استبيانًا عامًا حول آلية تعامله مع الوسائط المضلِّلة أو المزيفة

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البوابة العربية للأخبار التقنية البوابة العربية للأخبار التقنية يعمل تويتر بشكل مستمر لتوفير سياق حول المحتوى الذي يراه ويتفاعل معه الأشخاص عند استخدامهم للمنصة للتعرّف على ما يحدث في العالم. ومن شأن المحاولات المتعمدة لتضليل أو إرباك الناس من خلال …

أكثر دول المنطقة استهدافًا من التهديدات المتقدمة المستمرة حسب كاسبرسكي

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البوابة العربية للأخبار التقنية البوابة العربية للأخبار التقنية راقب باحثون مختصون في كاسبرسكي عن كثب، منذ بداية العام 2018، الهجمات الناجمة عما يُعرف بالتهديدات المتقدمة المستمرة على منطقة الشرق الأوسط وتركيا وإفريقيا، وأجروا في سياق ذلك 96 تحقيقًا في حالات …

Ransomware Hits B2B Payments Firm Billtrust

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Business-to-business payments provider Billtrust is still recovering from a ransomware attack that began last week.  The company said it is in the final stages of bringing all of its systems back online from backups. With more than 550 employees, Lawrence …

هجمات طلب الفدية تجعل المستشفيات خاوية من المرضى

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البوابة العربية للأخبار التقنية البوابة العربية للأخبار التقنية تسببت هجمات طلب الفدية في إصابة المستشفيات في جميع أنحاء العالم، مما أجبرها على إبعاد المرضى وإلغاء العمليات الجراحية، إذ استهدفت سلسلة من هجمات طلب الفدية هذا الأسبوع المستشفيات في الولايات المتحدة. …

Phishers are Angling for Your Cloud Providers

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Many companies are now outsourcing their marketing efforts to cloud-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) providers. But when accounts at those CRM providers get hacked or phished, the results can be damaging for both the client’s brand and their customers. Here’s …

Ransomware Bites Dental Data Backup Firm

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PerCSoft, a Wisconsin-based company that manages a remote data backup service relied upon by hundreds of dental offices across the country, is struggling to restore access to client systems after falling victim to a ransomware attack. West Allis, Wis.-based PerCSoft …

Cybersecurity Firm Imperva Discloses Breach

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Imperva, a leading provider of Internet firewall services that help Web sites block malicious cyberattacks, alerted customers on Tuesday that a recent data breach exposed email addresses, scrambled passwords, API keys and SSL certificates for a subset of its firewall …

Hacker Ordered to Pay Back Nearly £1 Million to Phishing Victims

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A prolific hacker who carried out phishing scams against hundreds of companies worldwide has been ordered to pay back more than $1.1 million (over £922,000) worth of cryptocurrencies to his victims. Grant West, a 27-year-old resident of Kent, England, targeted …

Meet Bluetana, the Scourge of Pump Skimmers

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“Bluetana,” a new mobile app that looks for Bluetooth-based payment card skimmers hidden inside gas pumps, is helping police and state employees more rapidly and accurately locate compromised fuel stations across the nation, a study released this week suggests. Data …

Patch Tuesday, August 2019 Edition

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Most Microsoft Windows (ab)users probably welcome the monthly ritual of applying security updates about as much as they look forward to going to the dentist: It always seems like you were there just yesterday, and you never quite know how …