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"Boeing’s Poor Information Security Posture Threatens Passenger Safety, National Security"Chris Kubecka, a security researcher and critical infrastructure expert, recently gave a presentation at the Aviation Cyber Security conference in London in which she discussed the threat posed by Boeing's inadequate information security practices… -
"Cybersecurity: Under Half of Organizations Are Fully Prepared to Deal With Cyberattacks"FireEye's Cyber Trendscape 2020 report highlights thoughts from CISOs on the current cyber threat landscape. According to a study conducted by FireEye, a little under half of the organizations claimed to be fully prepared to handle cyberattacks or data…
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"A Plan to Crowdsource Voting Machines’ Security Problems"The Information Technology-Information Sharing and Analysis Center (IT-ISAC), a northern Virginia infrastructure-threat clearinghouse, is exploring the possibility of creating a coordinated vulnerability disclosure (CVD) program, which would send alerts…
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"Are Researchers Helping Criminal Groups?"The tools and exploits developed and publicly released by penetration testers and security researchers are expected to continue helping adversaries launch attacks aimed at compromising targets. The public release of offensive tools used by penetration…
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"Hackers Plead Guilty to Breach That Uber Covered up"The inviduals who were in charge of the the 2016 data breach of Uber, Brandon Charles Glover, 26, of Florida, and Vasile Mereacre, 23, of Toronto, pleaded guilty last week to stealing the companies' personal information that was stored on…
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"Attackers Phish Office 365 Users With Fake Voicemail Messages"Hackers are switching it up in the execution of traditional phishing campaigns. Security researchers at McAfee Labs discovered the use of fake voicemails to trick unsuspecting users into revealing their credentials for Office 365 accounts to…
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"Researchers Create Quantum Chip 1,000 Times Smaller Than Current Setups"A tiny quantum communication chip has been developed by researchers at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore). The chip was designed to be smaller than existing quantum setups, while offering the same enhanced security expected of…
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"Columbia Professor Develops a Detector That Stops Lateral Phishing Attacks"There has been increasing concern about the rise in lateral phishing attacks. In a lateral phishing scheme, attackers compromise legitimate email accounts inside an organization, which are then used to send phishing emails to employees within that …
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"Ransomware: Average Ransom Payout Increases to $41,000"In a new study it has been found that in the third quarter of 2019, the average ransom amount paid was $41,198, an increase of 13 percent compared to the second quarter and a nearly six-fold increase from the third quarter of 2018. The five most-…
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"21 Million Stolen Fortune 500 Credentials For Sale on Dark Web"Geneva, Switzerland-based firm ImmuniWeb conducted a study on the availability of credentials belonging to global Fortune 500 organizations on the dark web. ImmuniWeb used its OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) technology to crawl the dark areas in which…
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"Country of Georgia Suffers Widespread Cyberattack"Georgia, a small country at the intersection of Europe and Asia, was hit with a cyberattack that has taken down 2,000 websites and a national TV station. The coordinated attack resulted in the defacement of websites, replacing functional pages with an…
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"Report: 2020 is the Year Data Gets Weaponized"According to a report recently released by research firm Forrester, titled Predictions 2020: Cybersecurity, adversaries are expected to be ahead of security leaders in the application of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies.…