Showing posts with label weekly news. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weekly news. Show all posts
Friday, 6 April 2018
Weekly News Roundup
Too busy working all week to keep up with the most interesting stories coming out of the technology and security industries? Below are our recommendations for a roundup of the top stories happening now that you need to know.
Sears and Delta Airlines customers' payment data exposed by third-party vendor breach
A third-party vendor data breach that took place last autumn exposed payment card information belonging to customers of Delta Airlines; Sears, Roebuck and Company; and possibly additional businesses, according to three separate public disclosures. Read more…
Facebook Will Notify 87M Users Whose Data May Have Been Used By Cambridge Analytica
On Monday, users of Facebook will see a notification at the top of their news feeds. The social media company's under pressure for just how much it let other companies use the information of millions of Facebook users, so it will tell people how to have their information spread to fewer places. Read more…
Here comes the next round of encryption legislation
Another Senate bill that intends to regulate encryption in private devices is in the works. Staffers for the Senate Judiciary Committee have been speaking with representatives of large U.S. technology companies in recent months to receive feedback for potential future legislation. Read more…
Misconfigured Clouds Compromise 424% More Records in 2017
Cybercriminals are increasingly aware of misconfigured systems and they're taking advantage, report IBM X-Force researchers. Insider mistakes like networked backup incidents and misconfigured cloud servers caused nearly 70% of all compromised records in 2017, according to new data research. Read more…
Friday, 30 March 2018
Weekly News Roundup
Too busy working all week to keep up with the most interesting stories coming out of the technology and security industries? Below are our recommendations for a roundup of the top stories happening now that you need to know.
Under Armour Says 150 Million MyFitnessPal Accounts Hacked
Under Armour Inc., joining a growing list of corporate victims of hacker attacks, said about 150 million user accounts tied to its MyFitnessPal nutrition-tracking app were breached earlier this year. An unauthorized party stole data from the accounts in late February, Under Armour said on Thursday. It became aware of the breach earlier this week and took steps to alert users about the incident, the company said. Read more…
Boeing hit and recovering from possible WannaCry attack
Aerospace manufacturer Boeing is reporting that the company has mitigated what may have been a small outbreak of WannaCry ransomware that hit one of its manufacturing facilities on March 28. Read more…
As Atlanta Seeks To Restore Services, Ransomware Attacks Are On The Rise
Atlanta city officials are not saying whether they were strong-armed into paying the $51,000 ransom to hackers holding many of the municipality's online services hostage, but they did announce progress in restoring networks on Thursday. Read more…
Facebook Could Be Fined Millions for Violating Consent Deal
Former Federal Trade Commission officials say that Facebook Inc. appears to have breached a 2011 consent agreement to safeguard users’ personal information and may be facing hundreds of millions of dollars in fines. The agency could fine Facebook up to $40,000 per violation per day -- which could add up quickly with millions of users involved -- if it finds the social media giant broke its earlier promises to protect user data, they say. Read more…
Friday, 23 March 2018
Weekly News Roundup
Too busy working all week to keep up with the most interesting stories coming out of the technology and security industries? Below are our recommendations for a roundup of the top stories happening now that you need to know.
Facebook Controversy: What to Know About Cambridge Analytica and Your Data
This week’s uproar over Facebook Inc. started years ago, with the mishandling of user data. Now that incident, and what followed, is at the center of a debate over how well the world’s largest social network protects its trove of user data. Read more…
Atlanta Ransomware Attack Freezes City Business
Ransomware that struck the city of Atlanta early Thursday morning froze internal and customer-facing applications, but officials say backups are in place and they expect to pay city employees on time next week. Read more…
Cryptocurrency mining malware uses five-year old vulnerability to mine Monero on Linux servers
Hackers are using a five-year-old security vulnerability to infect Linux servers with cryptocurrency-mining malware. The cryptojacking campaign exploits CVE-2013-2618, an old vulnerability in Cacti's Network Weathermap plug-in, an open source tool which is used by network administrators to visualise network activity. Read more…
House passes controversial legislation giving the US more access to overseas data
This week, the House of Representatives passed controversial legislation that would clarify and expand how data held overseas can be obtained by law enforcement in the United States. The change is part of the massive omnibus spending bill, and it incorporates measures first submitted earlier this year as the CLOUD Act. Read more…
Friday, 16 March 2018
Weekly News Roundup
Cybercriminals spotted hiding cryptocurrency mining malware in forked projects on GitHub
Cybercriminals have found another way to spread their malware: uploading cryptocurrency mining code to GitHub, according to security researchers. Developers 'fork' projects on GitHub, which means making a copy of someone else's project in order to build on it. In this case, the cybercriminals fork random projects and then hide malicious executables in the directory structure of these new projects. Read more…
Bitcoin stealing malware distributed on download.com for nearly a year
Bitcoin stealing malware that swaps user accounts with that of the attacker was found to be hosted on Download.com servers for nearly a year. Read more…
Vengeance by DDoS: No one is immune
In what may catch many by surprise, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are being used against companies, organizations, and individuals as an act of vengeance or revenge. No one is immune; documented victims have included non-profit organizations, community colleges, courts and law enforcement entities. Read more…
Victims can sue Yahoo for massive breaches, federal judge says
Plaintiffs suing Yahoo for failing to protect all of the company’s 3 billion users can move forward with the majority of their case, a federal judge in California ruled on Friday. Read more…
Friday, 9 March 2018
Weekly News Roundup
Too busy working all week to keep up with the most interesting stories coming out of the technology and security industries? Below are our recommendations for a roundup of the top stories happening now that you need to know.
Equifax data breach affected 2.4 million more consumers
The 2017 Equifax data breach has expanded again, with the company announcing last week that another 2.4 million U.S. consumers had their information stolen. Read more…
Massive Coin-Mining Attempt Targets Nearly Half a Million PCs
Microsoft has averted a massive and widespread campaign that would have seen tens of thousands of machines impacted. The software giant reported that on March 6, "Windows Defender AV blocked more than 80,000 instances of several sophisticated Trojans that exhibited advanced cross-process injection techniques, persistence mechanisms and evasion methods." Read more…
DDoS Record Broken Again as Memcached Attack Hits 1.7 Tbps
Days after a massive 1.35 Tbps DDoS attack against GitHub, an even larger attack reported at 1.7 Tbps by Netscout Arbor emerges to become the largest DDoS yet. Read more…
Code for massive 'Memcrashed' DDoS attack made public
You, too, can now attempt a record-setting denial-of-service attack, as the tools used to launch the attacks were publicly posted to GitHub this week. Proof-of-concept code by Twitter user @037 combined with a list of 17,000 IP addresses of vulnerable memcached servers allows anyone to send forged UDP packets to memcached servers obtained from the Shodan.io computer search engine. Read more…
Friday, 2 March 2018
Weekly News Roundup
Too busy working all week to keep up with the most interesting stories coming out of the technology and security industries? Below are our recommendations for a roundup of the top stories happening now that you need to know.
23,000 HTTPS certificates axed after CEO emails private keys
A major dust-up on an Internet discussion forum is touching off troubling questions about the security of some browser-trusted HTTPS certificates when it revealed the CEO of a certificate reseller emailed a partner the sensitive private keys for 23,000 TLS certificates. Read more…
Equifax Discloses 2.4 Million More Mega-Breach Victims
Equifax says it identified 2.4 million U.S. consumers whose names and snippets of their driver's license numbers were stolen, adding to what is one of the largest and most sensitive data breaches on record. Read more…
Big banks want to weaken the internet’s underlying security protocol
The tech and financial industries are butting heads over the latter’s push to intentionally weaken a security protocol that underlies how the public securely accesses the vast majority of the internet. Critics are charging that the financial industry is pushing for a weakness in the new version of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol, all for the sake of avoiding the time, effort and resources needed to adapt to the new standard. Read more…
Another massive DDoS internet blackout could be coming your way
A massive internet blackout similar to the Dyn DNS outage in 2016 could easily happen again, despite relatively low-cost countermeasures, according to a new study. The DDoS attack on Dyn took many major web sites offline for most of a day, including Twitter, PayPal, Reddit, Amazon, and Netflix. Millions of compromised IoT devices, belonging to the Mirai botnet, flooded Dyn's DNS service with up to 1.2 TBps of bogus traffic, making it impossible to respond to genuine DNS requests for their customers' websites. Read more…
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Friday, 23 February 2018
Weekly News Roundup
Too busy working all week to keep up with the most interesting stories coming out of the technology and security industries? Below are our recommendations for a roundup of the top stories happening now that you need to know.
Tesla investigates claims of crypto-currency hack
Tesla has confirmed that its cloud computing platform has been compromised by hackers. RedLock, the company that alerted it to the breach, believes the attackers may have done this to mine crypto-currency - an attack known as crypto-jacking. Read more…
Exposed Amazon cloud storage clients get tip-off alerts
Security researchers have posted "friendly warnings" to users of Amazon's cloud data storage service whose private content has been made public, the BBC has learned. The BBC found almost 50 warnings posted to the firm's servers. Many had more than one warning uploaded to them. Read more…
New email scam targeting accounts personnel at Fortune 500 companies
Criminals impersonate legitimate email accounts to initiate wire transfer fraud. Security researchers have uncovered an active Business Email Compromise (BEC) campaign targeting Accounts Payable personnel at Fortune 500. Read more…
Criminals Obtain Code-Signing Certificates Using Stolen Corporate IDs
The certificates are available on demand at prices ranging from $299 to $1,599, says Recorded Future. Malware authors have for some time been using code-signing certificates for their malicious payloads so they can sneak past enterprise anti-malware tools. Read more…
Friday, 16 February 2018
Weekly News Roundup
Too busy working all week to keep up with the most interesting stories coming out of the technology and security industries? Below are our recommendations for a roundup of the top stories happening now that you need to know.
Equifax breach worsens, additional consumer data exposed
The Equifax breach compromised even more consumer data, including tax identification numbers, than originally reported. But the credit rating agency didn't disclose the update. Read more…
FedEx customer information exposed in data breach
An unsecured FedEx server was breached, exposing thousands of customers' personal information, a prominent security research firm discovered earlier this month. An unsecured Amazon S3 server was holding more than 100,000 scanned documents including passports, drivers licenses, and security IDs. Read more…
Criminals Hide 'Billions' in Cryptocurrency, Europol Warns
The value of a bitcoin has fallen from a high of around $20,000 last December, hovering on Thursday around the $10,000 mark. But despite bitcoin's volatility, cryptocurrencies remain a valuable tool for money laundering, law enforcement agencies warn. Read more…
Banks preparing for heightened New York cybersecurity laws to take effect
This week, senior executives from more than 3,000 banks, insurers and other financial services companies doing business in New York will have to personally certify that their computer networks are protected by a cybersecurity program appropriate for their organization’s risk profile. Read more…
Friday, 9 February 2018
Weekly News Roundup
Over 19 Million Californian Voter Records Held for Ransom Again
A database containing the voter records of over 19.5 million Californians was exposed to the public internet before being locked down and held for ransom by cyber-criminals, just months after a similar incident, according to reports. Read more…
Cisco: Severe bug in our security appliances is now under attack
Cisco's Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) flaw with a CVSS score of 10 is now being exploited by attacks. Cisco has updated its advisory for vulnerability CVE-2018-0101 for the second time since warning customers of the critical flaw on January 29. The bug affects its ASA and Firepower security appliances. Read more…
New POS Malware Steals Data via DNS Traffic
Researchers have discovered new point-of-sale (POS) malware disguised as a LogMeIn service pack that is designed to steal data from the magnetic stripe on the back of payment cards. Read more…
Bitcoin's Reign on the Dark Web May Be Waning
For online scams and schemes, bitcoin changed the landscape. It became possible to obtain quick and secure payment in virtual currency for extortion schemes without touching conventional banking systems or wire transfer services. But, it may be losing its rein. As wider use of Litecoin, Monero and Dash signals a cryptocurrency shift. Read more…
Friday, 2 February 2018
Weekly News Roundup
Too busy working all week to keep up with the most interesting stories coming out of the technology and security industries? Below are our recommendations for a roundup of the top stories happening now that you need to know.
New Service, Same Old Equifax: Credit Locking App Freezes Up
More problems with Equifax. The company introduced a free consumer service this week that allows people to lock access to their credit files from a mobile phone. It didn’t work. Read more…
Cisco VPN remote code execution flaw rated 10 out of 10 for severity
It came out this week that there is a major Cisco VPN flaw that needs immediate patching now: There's a remote code execution and denial of service bug in Cisco VPNs. And it's as bad as it gets -- rated 10 out of 10 for severity. Read more…
Cryptocurrency Traders Lose $115 Billion in 24 Hours as Bitcoin Bloodbath Continues
Bitcoin fell below $7,600 in some trades as its heavy slide continued into Friday. Ethereum fell more than 32%, Ripple was down 38%, and Bitcoin Cash was down over 27%. All in all, that’s $115 billion off cryptocurrency market caps in one day. Read more…
Medical supply giant Fresenius Medical Care fined $3.5 million for five data breaches
Medical supplies giant Fresenius Medical Care North America (FMCNA) agreed to pay $3.5 million to U.S. federal regulators after five separate data breaches in 2012. Read more…
Friday, 26 January 2018
Weekly News Roundup
Too busy working all week to keep up with the most interesting stories coming out of the technology and security industries? Below are our recommendations for a roundup of the top stories happening now that you need to know.
Aetna Signs $1.15 Million Settlement With NY for Breaches
After settling a breach lawsuit for $17.2 million, Aetna has signed another large settlement related to privacy breaches involving mailings to its health plan members. Read more…
Hackers lure victims with fake cryptocurrency SpriteCoin
Researchers say SpriteCoin “is not really a true cryptocurrency, but is one that was created for this specific attack.” In this case, “the allure of quick wealth through cryptocurrency seems to be enough to trick unsuspecting users to rush toward the wallet app du jour without consideration.” Read more…
Ransomware Detections Up 90% for Businesses in 2017
Ransomware became the fifth-most-common threat for businesses in 2017 as detections increased by 90% from the previous year. Attacks also hit consumers hard, reaching a 93% detection rate year-over-year, reports Malwarebytes. Read more…
14 flaws found that could take over industrial control systems
Several serious flaws have been discovered in license management software used in industrial control systems. The vulnerabilities could allow an attack to remotely control such systems or carry out DoS attacks. Read more…
Friday, 19 January 2018
Weekly News Roundup
Too busy working all week to keep up with the most interesting stories coming out of the technology and security industries? Below are our recommendations for a roundup of the top stories happening now that you need to know.
Meltdown-Spectre: Intel says newer chips also hit by unwanted reboots after patch
Intel says the unexpected reboots triggered by patching older chips affected by Meltdown and Spectre are happening to its newer chips, too. Read more…
BEC Attacks to Exceed $9B in 2018: Trend Micro
Business email compromise (BEC) attacks are projected to exceed $9 billion in 2018. To put that number in context, it has been less than a year since the FBI reported BEC attacks had become a $5.3 billion industry. Read more…
Mailchimp Found Leaking Email Addresses
MailChimp, the bulk email company responsible for sending millions of newsletters, promotional mail and other mass communiques every day, has been leaking respondents’ email addresses. Read more…
Cryptocurrency Investors Worry, Wait After Bitcoin Price Drop
Over the last month, in a series of volatile swings, the price of the cryptocurrency bitcoin rose to a record high — then plunged to less than half that value. The abrupt changes have inspired comparisons to the dot-com bubble, and underscored the extremely speculative nature of investing in cryptocurrency. Read more…
Thursday, 11 January 2018
Weekly News Roundup
Too busy working all week to keep up with the most interesting stories coming out of the technology and security industries? Below are our recommendations for a roundup of the top stories happening now that you need to know.
Equifax could face a massive fine for another security breach — if two top Senate Democrats get their way
Two top Senate Democrats are seeking broad new powers for the U.S. government to slap Equifax and its peers with massive fines if they suffer major cyberattacks — money that would then be returned to the millions of Americans affected by such a breach. Read more…
Toy firm VTech fined $650,000 over data breach
Electronic toymaker VTech will pay $650,000 (£480,000) to settle charges that it failed to protect the privacy of children using its gadgets. The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) levelled the charges at VTech following a data breach in 2015. Read more…
Cryptominer malwares in RIG EK spread via malvertising
Malwarebytes researcher Jerome Segura analyzed a RIG exploit campaign distributing malware coin miners delivered via drive-by download attacks from malvertising. Read more…
Microsoft hits the brakes, stops rolling out Meltdown/Spectre patches for AMD devices
In response to BSOD errors, Microsoft paused rolling out Meltdown and Spectre patches to AMD devices. If an antivirus solution on other boxes is not compatible, then you won't be getting Windows security patches. Read more…
Friday, 5 January 2018
Weekly News Roundup
Too busy working all week to keep up with the most interesting stories coming out of the technology and security industries? Below are our recommendations for a roundup of the top stories happening now that you need to know.
Intel facing multiple class action suits over chip security flaw
Intel is facing at least three class action lawsuits over a recently revealed security flaw. The complaints allege that the vulnerability, which Intel learned about several months ago, makes its chips inherently faulty. Read more…
Phoney Android security apps in Google Play Store found distributing malware, tracking users
36 apps posing as tools to keep users safe from attacks were actually installing malware on user's devices. Read more…
DHS Says 246,000 Employees' Personal Details Were Exposed
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is warning that nearly 250,000 federal employees' personal details were exposed in a 2014 breach of the DHS Office of Inspector General's case management system. Also exposed was information, including witness testimony, gathered from DHS employees and nonemployees in the course of investigations. Read more…
GPS tracking vulnerabilities leave millions of products at risk
Two researchers have disclosed problems with hundreds of vulnerable GPS services using open APIs and trivial passwords (123456), resulting in a multitude of privacy issues including direct tracking. Further, many of the vulnerable services have open directories exposing logged data. Read more…
Friday, 22 December 2017
Weekly News Roundup
Too busy working all week to keep up with the most interesting stories coming out of the technology and security industries? Below are our recommendations for a roundup of the top stories happening now that you need to know.
Open AWS S3 bucket exposes sensitive Experian and census info on 123 million U.S. households
Another cloud-based data repository, this one belonging to Alteryx, has publicly exposed datasets from the data analytics firm's partner Experian and the U.S. Census Bureau that contain sensitive personal information on 123 million U.S. households. Read more…
Fileless Malware Attacks Hit Milestone in 2017
Fileless malware attacks using PowerShell or Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) tools accounted for 52% of all attacks this year, beating out malware-based attacks for the first time according to a new report. Read more…
Bitcoin and almost every other cryptocurrency crashed hard today
Bitcoin has been on a tear this past with the value of the cryptocurrency jumping from $8,000 to nearly $20,000. Well that run hit an abrupt end today as the price crashed as much as 23 percent on Coinbase. The price briefly dipped below $12,000 on some exchanges. Read more…
North Korean hackers turn focus to cryptocurrency, point-of-sale systems during holiday season
Cybercriminals linked to North Korea appear to be simultaneously targeting point-of-sale (POS) systems as well as cryptocurrency platforms as the annual holiday spike continues in retail stores and the hype surrounding bitcoin surges, according to new research. Read more…
Friday, 15 December 2017
Weekly News Roundup
Too busy working all week to keep up with the most interesting stories coming out of the technology and security industries? Below are our recommendations for a roundup of the top stories happening now that you need to know.
F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules
The Federal Communications Commission voted on Thursday to dismantle rules regulating the businesses that connect consumers to the internet, granting broadband companies the power to potentially reshape Americans’ online experiences. Read more…
Three plead guilty to creating Mirai IoT botnet malware
Three men have pleaded guilty in federal court to charges related to the creation of the Mirai Internet of Things botnet malware, variants of which have been used in a series of debilitating distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks since 2016. Read more…
Hackers steal $64 million from cryptocurrency firm NiceHash
Cryptocurrency mining marketplace, NiceHash, said it lost about $64 million worth of bitcoin in a hack of its payment system, the latest incident to highlight risks that uneven oversight and security pose to booming digital currencies. Read more…
Starbucks cafe's wi-fi made computers mine crypto-currency
Starbucks has acknowledged that visitors to one of its branches were unwittingly recruited into a crypto-currency mining operation. The wi-fi service provided by one of the coffee chain's Buenos Aires outlets surreptitiously hijacked connected computers to use their processing power to create digital cash. Read more…
Friday, 8 December 2017
Weekly News Roundup
Too busy working all week to keep up with the most interesting stories coming out of the technology and security industries? Below are our recommendations for a roundup of the top stories happening now that you need to know.
Millions 'stolen' in NiceHash Bitcoin heist
"Highly professional" hackers made off with around 4,700 Bitcoin from a leading mining service, a Bitcoin exchange has said. The value of Bitcoin is currently extremely volatile, but at the time of writing, the amount stolen was worth approximately $80m. Read more…
Keyboard data leak exposes millions of personal records
A keyboard data leak by mobile developer Ai.type exposed millions of personal records through misconfigured MongoDB database settings. Read more…
Uber paid Florida hacker responsible for breach $100K through bug bounty program
The hacker that Uber compensated to destroy data and keep a hack that exposed the personal data of 57 million drivers and passengers is a 20-year-old Florida man that the ride share company paid $100,000 to through its bug bounty program. Read more…
Over 1 million monthly spam emails spreading new Adwind RAT variants
The holidays are busy times for most people – and that includes cyber criminals who are busy sending millions of spam emails carrying newly repackaged Adwind remote access Trojan (RAT) variants meant to avoid detection. Read more…
Friday, 1 December 2017
Weekly News Roundup
Too busy working all week to keep up with the most interesting stories coming out of the technology and security industries? Below are our recommendations for a roundup of the top stories happening now that you need to know.
Senators Again Propose National Breach Notification Bill
A trio of Democratic Senators is attempting to catapult Congress into the information security era by pushing for passage of a U.S. national data breach notification law. Read more...
Top secret government files stored without password protection on Amazon server
It doesn’t always require a whistleblower to leak classified NSA data, considering top secret files were stored on an Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 bucket that was configured for public access. The server contained sensitive data belonging to the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM), which is a joint Army and NSA division. Read more...
Over 100GB of Secret Consumer Credit Data Leaked Online
Some 111GB of highly sensitive information including consumer credit histories has been exposed by the National Credit Federation as the result of yet another misconfigured Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 cloud storage bucket. Read more...
Clarksons' breach again shows need to eliminate passwords
The global shipping firm Clarksons reported that it has suffered a cybersecurity breach which it, and outside security firms, believe was caused when a lone user account was hacked, again bringing to the forefront the need to move past the legacy username and password for logging in to a critical system. Read more...
Friday, 24 November 2017
Weekly News Roundup
Too busy working all week to keep up with the most interesting stories coming out of the technology and security industries? Below are our recommendations for a roundup of the top stories happening now that you need to know.
Uber data breach from 2016 affected 57 million riders and drivers
Uber faced a data breach in 2016 that affected some 57 million customers, including both riders and drivers, revealing their names, email address and phone numbers. Read more…
Crypto-Currency Firm Tether Loses $30m to Hackers
Crypto-currency firm Tether has become the latest to suffer a damaging cyber-attack, claiming hackers have made off with over $30m worth of tokens. The crypto-currency stolen is USDT, a US dollar-based asset issued by Tether on the Bitcoin blockchain via the Omni Layer Protocol. Read more…
FCC Chairman submits plan to end net neutrality; New York AG claims agency is hindering probe
The Federal Communications Commission chairman on Tuesday announced a draft of his plan to dismantle net neutrality rules that ensure a free and open internet. The elimination of net neutrality regulations would pave the way for telecommunication/ISP companies to charge a premium for high-quality streaming, charge for or block access to certain web content, and intentionally reduce the speed of some websites over others -- as long as they are transparent about their actions. Read more…
Equifax now hit with a rare 50-state class-action lawsuit
This rare 50-state class-action suit against Equifax, highlights the massive costs and critical damage companies could face in the wake of a cybersecurity attack. Read more…
Friday, 17 November 2017
Weekly News Roundup
Too busy working all week to keep up with the most interesting stories coming out of the technology and security industries? Below are our recommendations for a roundup of the top stories happening now that you need to know.
Forever 21 hack reveals payment card data
The clothing retailer says hackers compromised point of sale devices at stores for a good part of the year. Read more…
If you own a Google Home or Amazon Echo, you could be at risk
Remember BlueBorne, the vulnerability that allowed hackers to infiltrate an estimated 5 billion gadgets using only a Bluetooth connection? It’s estimated that 20 million Amazon Echo and Google Home devices were vulnerable to attacks via the BlueBorne exploit. Read more…
Security vulnerability in IoT cameras could allow remote control by hackers
Newly uncovered vulnerabilities in a popular brand of indoor internet-connected cameras could be exploited by attackers in order to gain complete control of the device. Read more…
121 Pieces of Malware Flagged on NSA Employee's Home Computer
Kaspersky Lab's internal investigation found a backdoor Trojan and other malware on the personal computer of the NSA employee who took home agency hacking tools. Read more…
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