Video is a format for reporting and explaining cyberattacks, vulnerabilities, security research, and defensive practices.
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Video is digitally encoded moving images, often accompanied by audio, subtitles, metadata, or live-streaming data. In security contexts, the tag commonly covers video files and delivery systems, including conferencing, surveillance, media platforms, cameras, encoders, storage, and playback software.
Security concerns include unauthorized viewing or disclosure of recordings, interception of inadequately protected streams, and tampering that changes the evidentiary or operational value of footage. Video systems should apply access controls, encryption in transit and at rest, secure authentication, retention limits, and audit logs. Internet-connected cameras, encoders, and players also require timely vulnerability management because compromise can expose footage or provide access to connected networks. Privacy obligations may apply when recordings identify people or capture sensitive locations; incident response should therefore address access revocation, preservation of relevant footage and logs, and notification requirements where applicable.
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DuckDuckGo announced that its browser can now block most video ads on YouTube, including those shown before the video starts playing and during playback. [...]
Researchers at Shandong University have shown a fast new way to pull data off computers that are cut off from every network. The technique, called TrojPix, tweaks on-screen pixels in ways the eye cannot see, so that the video cable carrying them radiates a faint radio signal a nearby receiver can decode
In this "Heard it From a CISO" video, Silverfort CISO John Paul Cunningham explains that AI in cybersecurity workflows is creating opportunities rather than eliminating jobs — and there are more ways than ever to break into this essential field.
Educational institutions, the edtech companies they rely on, and, more concerningly, the challenges they pose for schools are the focus of the latest Reporters' Notebook video series.
Two things landed within days of each other this week. A security startup reported 21 previously unknown vulnerabilities in FFmpeg, the media library inside almost everything that touches video, all of them found by an autonomous AI agent
In this latest installment of the Reporters' Notebook video series, we discuss how cyber insurance is forcing organizations to quantify risk, what's covered (and what's not), and why this could be the best thing to happen to cybersecurity.
Also, missing school iPad resurfaced after coach’s kids uploaded video to YouTube
Discord announced that all voice and video calls through the communication platform are now protected by default with end-to-end encryption (E2EE). [...]
An On Demand video from ID DatawebScattered Spider continues to evolve, and organizations across financial services, healthcare, insurance, telecommunications, and other sectors are strengthening defenses against increasingly sophisticated identity-driven threats.
The ShinyHunters extortion gang stole personal information belonging to over 119,000 people after hacking the Vimeo online video platform in April, according to data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned. [...]
The North Korea-aligned state-sponsored hacking group known as ScarCruft has compromised a video game platform in a supply chain espionage attack, trojanizing its components with a backdoor called BirdCallto likely target ethnic Koreans residing in China
The North Korean hacker group APT37 has been delivering an Android version of a backdoor called BirdCall in a supply-chain attack through a video game platform. [...]
The woman’s lawyer told CyberScoop they believe the company edited her video to suggest she was a “friend with benefits” and intentionally geofenced it to men around her. The post A college student is suing a dating app that allegedly used her TikTok videos to target men in her dormitory appeared first on CyberScoop.
Also: Google’s $40B AI Bet, Insights From Google Next ConferenceIn this week's panel, four ISMG editors discussed North Korea's use of fake video meetings to fuel crypto fraud, Google's $40 billion investment in Anthropic and what it signals for the AI race, and key takeaways from Google Next in Las Vegas on enterprise AI adoption.
In this latest installment of the Reporters' Notebook video series, we discuss how the new AI model threatens to completely upend cybersecurity, and what industry leaders are telling the press.
Vimeo has disclosed that data belonging to some of its customers and users has been accessed without authorization following the recent breach at the Anodot data anomaly detection company. [...]
An On Demand video from ID DatawebScattered Spider is rapidly expanding its reach, exploiting identity processes and help desks to infiltrate organizations. Discover their tactics and the steps you can take now to reduce risk. Watch the webinar.
Video of Industry Figures Harvested During Meetings and Used to Lure Future VictimsNorth Korean hackers are pretending to be cryptocurrency insiders, in an attempt to trick targets into accepting Calendly calendar invites. The social engineering ruse is designed to infect Windows and macOS systems with crypto stealers, and to harvest video of real-life people for future lures.
A pro-Ukrainian hacktivist group called PhantomCore has been attributed to attacks actively targeting servers running TrueConf video conferencing software in Russia since September 2025
Mexican IT services firm admits it was hacked, but says client operations weren't affected A Mexican IT infrastructure and digital transformation biz is on clean-up duty after a criminal posted screenshots of what they claimed was company video surveillance footage to a cybercrime forum.…