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"Cyberattacks Increase in Auto Dealerships as Hackers Take Advantage of Gaps in Protection"According to CDK Global Inc., a leading automotive retail software provider, 15 percent of dealers have experienced a cybersecurity incident in the last year. CDK Global's second annual dealership cybersecurity study revealed that 85 percent of those…
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"Solana DeFi Trading Platform Mango Markets Loses $100M in Hack"In the second DeFi hack this week, Mango Markets was drained of over $100 million in funds due to an exploit. Mango Markets tweeted Tuesday evening that a hacker was able to empty funds from Mango via an oracle price manipulation. Only last…
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"Google Launches Passkey Support for Developers on Android and Chrome"Google has announced the launch of passkey support for developers on Android and Chrome as part of an effort to increase the adoption of passkeys. Passkeys are an industry standard aimed at removing passwords used for online authentication. Google, Apple…
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"Ransomware Attackers Target US Colleges and Universities"Colleges and universities in the US are on high alert because of cyberattacks. In March 2021, the FBI issued a warning for higher education on the increase in ransomware targeting education institutions. Despite efforts made by universities to combat…
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"Study Questions the Medical Privacy of Forensic Samples"According to researchers at San Francisco State University, law enforcement databases may contain private information about individuals, including crime victims. Contrary to what the legal community has believed for nearly 30 years, a new study from San…
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"QBot Malware Infects Over 800 Corporate Users in New, Ongoing Campaign"Security researchers at Kaspersky have found that more than 800 corporate users have been infected in a new QBot malware distribution campaign since September 28. Also known as Qakbot and Pinkslipbot, QBot is an information stealer with backdoor…
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"Transformation of Suspicious Activity Reporting to Combat Financial and Cyber Crime"Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) are an important part of how the UK combats money laundering criminality. The Drug Trafficking Offences Act established these in 1986, and they have evolved through the 2002 Proceeds of Crime Act and the 2019 Money…
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"Chrome 106 Update Patches Several High-Severity Vulnerabilities"Google recently announced that the latest Chrome update patches six high-severity vulnerabilities, including four use-after-free bugs. Google noted that external researchers discovered all the newly resolved vulnerabilities, and Google handed out $…
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"Data Security Incident Exposes PHI For Over 1K Zomo Health Members"Healthcare software company Zomo Health recently disclosed a data security incident to HHS that involved the protected health information (PHI) of 1,359 individuals accidentally being exposed. According to Zomo Health, they became aware of a…
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"Patent Filed for Satellite Cryptography"The province of Lower Austria presented the best inventions and discoveries made by Lower Austrian researchers in celebration of the province's 100th anniversary. One of the presentations highlighted a patent filed for satellite cryptography. Univ.-Doz.…
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"Identity Theft Resource Center Q3 2022 Data Breach Report: Compromises & Victims Up from Q2 - Record High Year Unlikely"Recently the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), a nationally recognized nonprofit organization established to support victims of identity crime, released its U.S. data breach findings for the third quarter (Q3) of 2022. According to the Q3 2022…
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"For Most Companies Ransomware Is the Scariest of All Cyberattacks"According to SonicWall's 2022 Threat Mindset Survey, 66 percent of customers are more concerned about cyberattacks in 2022, with the main threat being financially motivated attacks such as ransomware. Companies are losing millions of dollars to unending…