Google has patched a major security bug impacting the Gmail and G Suite email servers. The bug could have allowed a threat actor to send spoofed emails mimicking any Gmail or G Suite customer. The issue was identified and reported to Google in April, though the search giant took over four months in mitigation and ultimately released a patch on Wednesday (19th August). According to...
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A phishing campaign is a kind of scam ran through email and intended to snip personal information from victims. Phishing basically depend on a vulnerability we can never fully abolish- human mistakes. The theme of the attack or the lure to attract human errors to commit the mistake depends on surroundings. For example, APWG or Anti Phishing Working Group Q1 2020 report states that cybercriminals...
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As being a full member of FIRST, Bangladesh Government’s Cyber Security unit BGD e-GOV CIRT took part in annual CTF and achieved 19th position among 278 teams from all over the world. FIRST is the global Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams. It is an international confederation of trusted computer incident response teams who cooperatively handle computer security incidents and promote incident prevention programs. It...
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There are many ways to define “Critical Infrastructure,” but what these definitions have in common is most closely conceived of as infrastructure that would affect the economic and national security of a country if it were negatively impacted or eliminated. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security describes critical infrastructure as the resources, structures, and networks, either physical or electronic, so important to the U.S. that...
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What is PCI DSS? The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a set of security standards formed in 2004 by Visa, MasterCard, Discover Financial Services, JCB International and American Express. Governed by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC), the compliance scheme aims to secure credit and debit card transactions against data theft and fraud. While the PCI SSC has...
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