M&M’s vending machines used to recognize the faces of university students – they will be dismantled.

Canada’s University of Waterloo is removing smart M&M’s vending machines from its campus. The students discovered that the machines were secretly performing facial recognition on students without…

Fingerprints can be reproduced from the sounds of a finger movement on a touch screen – research

A research team from the US and China has uncovered a new threat associated with biometric authentication. Their work is titled “PrintListener: Detecting Fingerprint Authentication Vulnerabilities from…

More than 5,000 cyber incidents have been recorded in Ukraine – Fedorov on cyber threats and cyber security

On February 7 and 8, the Kyiv International Cybersecurity Forum 2024, dedicated to cyber security issues, was held in the capital. Both Ukrainian officials and representatives of…

A large-scale forum on cyber security will be held in Kyiv next week. Among the speakers are Danilov, Fedorov and Pomerov

On February 7-8, an international forum on cyber security will be held in Kyiv – the theme of the large-scale two-day event will be “Resilience during cyber…

Russian hackers hacked Microsoft thanks to weak corporate network security

State-run Russian hackers used a weak password to break into Microsoft’s corporate network and gain access to emails and documents of senior executives, security staff and lawyers….

Kyivstar will donate UAH 100 million to the Armed Forces and cancel the next tariff fee. How exactly will the compensation mechanism work

“Kyivstar” decided to cancel the planned fee for the tariff for all subscribers, as well as to allocate an additional UAH 100 million for the needs of…

Kyivstar subscribers were blocked from switching to Life and Vodafone at the request of the Security Service of Ukraine — in order not to overload other networks

Immediately after the cyber attack on the Kyivstar core network, which disabled the entire infrastructure of the largest operator in Ukraine (with 24.1 million subscribers), Ukrainians remembered…

HUR hackers hacked tax Russia, destroyed data and paralyzed work – full recovery is impossible

Four days ago, cyber units of the GUR of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine conducted a successful special operation in Russia. As a result of two…

In 2022, the number of incidents of hacking and data theft remained at last year’s level, but the number of victims increased by 41% – ITRC annual report

In 2022, it seems that not a week went by without news about data breaches. There were many high-profile incidents (as in the year before last), and…

Tech retailers in Ukraine were attacked by the SwiftSlicer virus – it is linked to the Sandworm hacker group, which works for Russia

Security researchers from ESET have discovered a new virus called SwiftSlicer, which was used in recent attacks against targets in Ukraine. SwiftSlicer targets critical Windows operating system…

Octava Defence: survey of CISO Ukraine on business cyber security

In Ukraine, a large survey on business cyber security is underway. It will help systematize data on the level of cyber security of Ukrainian organizations and find…