Just when you think you have a fair idea of all the modern tech-related scams in the ether, a new one appears seemingly out of nowhere. This financial scam of the moment is ATM scams, which have been on the rise since 2020. 

RansomHub has compromised 210 victims since its inception earlier this year. That’s according to a joint cybersecurity advisory, ‘#StopRansomware: RansomHub Ransomware’, recently released by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC), and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

If you know anything about SSL certificates, you’ll know that an SSL is only as reliable as its issuing Certificate Authority. The chain of trust plays a key role in the SSL ecosystem, and when a Certificate Authority breaks it for whatever reason, major web browsers will stop trusting their issued SSLs, rendering them useless.

Having so much critical infrastructure online is a double-edged sword. While it brings a kind of ease and convenience never seen before, it’s also risky. One dodgy update can potentially disrupt essential services on a massive scale. That’s exactly what happened with Crowdstrike a few weeks back. 

Although passwords have long been the default authentication method for signing into digital products and services, they are unfortunately one of the most vulnerable. Many security breaches occur due to users reusing the same password across multiple websites or using weak, easily guessed passwords. 

For most, YouTube is a harmless video platform where you can relax and consume content about anything from makeup tutorials to book reviews. Unfortunately, like any other social media platform today, it can also be rife with scams, misinformation, and general bad actors.

A vote on bringing into law a controversial proposal aimed at preventing child sexual abuse material has been postponed by the Council of the European Union. Privacy experts are celebrating that the law has failed to pass yet again since it was first proposed in 2022.