Efforts to halt the spread of the coronavirus have forced courts around the country to suspend proceedings, but they also threaten the constitutional right to a fair and speedy trial. “We’re in real danger of a total breakdown of the system.” warns Nina Ginsberg. president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
Read more Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new emerging IoT botnet threat that leverages compromised smart devices to stage ‘distributed denial-of-service’ attacks, potentially triggered on-demand through platforms offering DDoS-for-hire services. The botnet, named “dark_nexus” by Bitdefender researchers, works by employing credential stuffing attacks against a variety of devices, such as
Social distancing has put ballot drives on pause and state lawmakers are overwhelmed with the coronavirus crisis. Still, votes should occur in New Jersey, Mississippi and possibly Arizona.
Read moreSBA says people with criminal records aren’t eligible for some emergency loans, even though experts say the law doesn’t exclude them.
Read moreA federal appeals panel said the Trump administration may execute federal prisoners, after a nearly two-decade hiatus. No death-row inmates will be executed soon, however, as more appeals are likely.
Read moreNASA has seen “significantly increasing” malicious activity from both nation-state hackers and cybercriminals targeting the US space agency’s systems and personnel working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic. Mitigation tools and measures set in place by NASA’s Security Operations Center (SOC) successfully blocked a wave of cyberattacks, the agency reporting double the number of phishing […]
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Read moreGoogle has addressed a security concern with the Face Unlock system on its Pixel 4 smartphones, more than five months after the devices went on sale. In October 2019, a BBC News test found the Face Unlock system allowed access to a person’s device even if they had their eyes closed. Security researchers criticised the […]
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Read moreIn the latest sorry COVID-19 scam, fraudsters are impersonating financial institutions to steal from Americans expecting stimulus checks from the US federal government. Following the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, many Americans have been furloughed, fired, or had their hours or workload reduced as businesses across the country closed and lockdown measures were implemented. To […]
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Read moreA mysterious piece of Android malware that re-installs itself on infected devices even after users delete it or factory reset their devices—making it nearly impossible to remove. xHelper reportedly infected over 45,000 devices last year, and since then, cybersecurity researchers have been trying to unfold how the malware survives factory reset and how it infected […]
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Read moreCybercriminals are increasingly relying on SSL certificates to lull people into a false sense of security when clicking malicious links. The assumption that HTTPS links and the accompanying lock icon protect employees from attack can threaten businesses without sufficient SSL inspection. Nearly 52% of the top 1 million websites were available over HTTPS in 2019, […]
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