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"An Obscure App Flaw Creates Backdoors In Millions of Smartphones"Researchers at University of Michigan have shared their findings of hundreds of applications in Google Play having the capability of allowing a phone to act as a server as the owner connects to that phone from their PC. This capability raises major… -
"Nondigital, analog theft is main driver in identity theft"New research from the Center for Identity at UT reveals that the leading sparks behind identity-related crimes surprisingly aren’t correlated with mega-data breaches, but with traditional “analog” theft. This discovery has been outlined in the “2017…
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"Teen Hacker Sentenced Over 'Titanium Stresser' Attacks"Adam Mudd has been sentenced to two years in prison after he plead guilty to developing and selling a distributed denial-of-service attack tool by the name of “Titanium Stresser”. Mudd was 16 years old when he developed this malicious tool that has been…
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"New platform uses behavioral science to cut cyber security risks"British startup, CybSafe, has launched a cloud-based platform that delivers a security-based e-learning program personalized for the user through machine learning of user knowledge and behavior patterns. This service can be accessed through a mobile app…
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"Advancing Cybersecurity with Blockchain Technology"Blockchain technology offers alternative approaches for managing, distributing, and sharing data to avoid massive data loss or damage in single point of failure systems. Blockchain technology features are classified into three components, which include…
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"Webroot deletes Windows files and causes serious problems for users"Users of endpoint security product, Webroot, are demanding major fixes and solutions for a huge problem that emerged on Monday, April 24, which flags valid and essential Windows OS files as malicious, leading to the blockage and quarantining of…
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"Phishing attacks using internationalized domains are hard to block"The latest version of Google Chrome tackles phishing by restricting how domain names made up of non-Latin characters are displayed by the browser as attackers were using a certain technique involving these characters to create highly convincing phishing…
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"New Strain of Linux Malware Could Get Serious"Linux/Shishiga is a new strain of Linux malware that is raising major concerns as it could transform into a dangerous widespread security threat. Researchers of this new strain of malware have revealed that it uses four different protocols, SSH,…
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"Stuxnet: The Computer Worm That Keeps on Living"Security researchers state that the Stuxnet worm flaw is still the most exploited despite Microsoft’s release of a patch to fix this flaw seven years ago. According to Kaspersky Lab, the Windows Shell flaw responsible for the Stuxnet worm is still first…
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"Experts Find 10 Flaws in Linksys Smart Wi-Fi Routers"Researchers at IOActive have discovered 10 vulnerabilities within Linksys routers that could be exploited by hackers to launch DoS attacks, expose and steal sensitive information, as well as configure malicious backdoors for future attacks. Linksys…
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"APT Attack Activity Occurs at 'Low, Consistent Hum,' Rapid7 Finds"Security vendor, Rapid7, has a released a quarterly threat intelligence report, outlining analyses of encountered security incidents by customers, which were then handled and managed by the company’s services. This report reveals that advanced persistent…
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"Patched Flaw in Bosch Diagnostic Dongle Allowed Researchers to Shut Off Engine"Researchers at Argus Cyber Security, a firm dedicated to researching automobile security, has discovered two vulnerabilities within Bosch’s Drivelog Connect OBD-II dongle and the smartphone app that would allow the engine of a vehicle to be shut off or…