Baltimore’s Ransomware Mess Is Its Own Fault 

  — Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News Since early May, Baltimore has been grappling with a city-crippling ransomware attack. A fiery debate has erupted within the information security community over who is to blame for the mess. The match that lit the blaze: A story published by the The New York

The EU’s Embassy In Russia Was Hacked But The EU Kept It A Secret

  — Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News BRUSSELS — The European Union’s embassy in Moscow was hacked and had information stolen from its network, according to a leaked internal document seen by BuzzFeed News. An ongoing “sophisticated cyber espionage event” was discovered in April, just weeks before the

How to Use a Physical Security Key to Safeguard Your Exchange Account  

  — Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News A physical security key is a piece of hardware used for verifying you have permission to access sensitive online services. It can be used for securing accounts on cryptocurrency exchanges employing two-factor authentication, replacing more vulnerable methods such as receiving verification

Westpac breach highlights cyber-security threat

  — Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News In yet another breach of what consumers are justified in expecting should be a watertight security environment, the private details of almost 100,000 Australian bank customers have been exposed in a cyber-attack on the real-time payments platform PayID, which allows the

BlackSquid malware uses bag of exploits to drop cryptocurrency miners  

  — Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News A new form of malware has emerged from the depths to attack web servers with a barrage of exploits designed to land illicit cryptocurrency miners. The overall aim is to compromise web servers, network drives, and removable storage to install XMRig, a

National Cyber Security Centre to discuss vision for UK cybersecurity defence

  — Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News NCSC will be joining Kate Adie, the BBC’s former Chief News Correspondent, Jamie Bartlett, Senior Fellow and former Director of Demos and Dame Inga Beale, Former CEO, Lloyds of London. Along with the keynote slot, which takes place on day three

Fake news accounts active on Twitter ahead of EU Parliament elections  

— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News Working with a cyber security analyst, Yle found that Twitter was a hotbed of activity aimed at undermining EU citizens’ confidence in the region. While a few accounts were responsible for disseminating misleading information and outright fake news, ordinary citizens were also