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"NYC Launches Full-Court Cyber Press"The NYC Economic Development Council (NYCEDC) plans to improve upon its cybersecurity sector through the Cyber NYC initiative, which includes the development of a Global Cyber Center. The Global Cyber Center will provide a virtual testing…
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"Researchers KRACK Wi-Fi Again, More Efficiently This Time"The researchers that discovered the Wi-Fi Protected Access II (WPA2) protocol to be vulnerable to key reinstallation attacks (KRACKs) in 2017, recently detailed new variants of these attacks. According to researchers, the new KRACK variants are able to…
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"100,000-Plus Home Routers Hijacked in Campaign to Steal Banking Credentials"More than 100,000 home routers have been hijacked through the launch of GhostDNS malware by an unknown attacker in order to perform phishing. Devices that have been targeted by the GhostDNS campaign have mainly been located in Brazil. This article…
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"DevOps Producing More Insecure Apps Than Ever"According to WhiteHat Security's 2018 Application Security Statistics Report: The Evolution of the Secure Software Lifecycle, security is still not being implemented by organizations in the process of developing applications. Integrating security into…
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"Augmented Reality Could Help Solve the Cybersecurity Talent Gap"The growing frequency and sophistication of cyberattacks calls for the development of a workforce that is highly skilled in cybersecurity. Augmented reality (AR) has been highlighted as a method that could be used in cybersecurity training and…
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"New Vicious Torii IoT Botnet Discovered"A new botnet, called Torii, has been detailed by researchers from Avast. According to researchers, Torii is a highly sophisticated and persistent botnet that applies at least six methods in order to remain on infected devices and stay operational.…
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"Malware Has a New Way to Hide on Your Mac"Mac security researcher, Thomas Reed, has discovered a way in which the persistency of malware on a Mac can be increased by attackers. This persistency is possible since macOS does not regularly check the code signature of an app over the period of…
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"FireEye Unmasks a New North Korean Threat Group"Researchers at FireEye have identified a new North Korean hacking group, dubbed APT38. According to researchers, APT38 appears to be motivated by financial gain for the North Korean regime as the attacks launched by this group largely targets financial…
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"Fileless Malware Attacks on the Rise, Microsoft Says"Microsoft has brought further attention to the rising adoption of fileless techniques by attackers in the launch of malware. Fileless malware attacks do not require executable files to be written to the disk, which makes such attacks difficult to detect…
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"No More Messing Around with Passwords"A team of researchers have developed a new authentication platform called ReCRED with the support of the European Union. ReCRED is an access system for mobile devices that uses a combination of a short pin, biometric identifiers, and anonymous…
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"MoD Launches Cyber Cadet Training Program"Cadets CyberFirst is a new program launched by the UK Ministry of Defense in support of filling the cyber skills gap and building a workforce of highly-skilled cyber professionals. The program will develop the skills of up to 2000 cyber cadets. This…
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"RDP Attacks on the Rise Warns FBI, DHS"A warning was recently issued by the FBI and DHS pertaining to the rise in the launch of Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) attacks by cybercriminals. The warning highlighted the use of RDP attacks to distribute ransomware, including CrySIS, CryptON, and…