The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), a not-for-profit organization in England whose mission is “to eliminate child sexual abuse imagery online”, has…
Month: April 2021
A week in security (April 19 – 25)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we interviewed Youssef Sammouda, a 21-year-old bug bounty hunter who is focused on finding vulnerabilities on…
Breaking free from the VirusTotal silo: Lock and Code S02E07
This week on Lock and Code, we speak to Malwarebytes Chief Information Security Officer John Donovan about the flaws in using…
How to choose the best VPN for you
If you’ve been shopping for a VPN service in 2021, you’ve probably noticed how many providers are available. Using a personal…
Artificial Intelligence ban slammed for failing to address “vast abuse potential”
A written proposal to ban several uses of artificial intelligence (AI) and to place new oversight on other “high-risk” AI applications—published…
Take action! Multiple Pulse Secure VPN vulnerabilities exploited in the wild
Pulse Secure has alerted customers to the existence of an exploitable chain of attack against its Pulse Connect Secure (PCS) appliances….
FBI face recognition trawl finds Capitol rioter via his girlfriend’s Instagram
Facial recognition tech is in the news again after the FBI discovered the identify of one of the Capitol rioters by…
Interview with a bug bounty hunter: Youssef Sammouda
Behind the scenes there are many people working in cyber-security that make the internet a safer place. Youssef Sammouda is one…
FIN7 sysadmin behind “billions in damage” gets 10 years
In 2018 three high-ranking members of a sophisticated international cybercrime group operating out of Eastern Europe were arrested and taken into…
CodeCov supply-chain compromise likened to SolarWinds attack
CodeCov, a company that creates software auditing tools for developers, was recently breached (the company says it was breached on April…