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"Recycling Giant Tomra Takes Systems Offline Following Cyberattack"Norwegian recycling giant Tomra has recently taken some of its systems offline after falling victim to what it describes as "an extensive cyberattack." Tomra is a multinational company that manufactures waste collection and sorting products, including…
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"AI Must Have Better Security, Says Top Cyber Official"Lindy Cameron, CEO of the UK National Cyber Security Centre, emphasizes that cybersecurity must be implemented into Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems. According to Cameron, it is essential to implement robust systems in the early phases of AI…
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"Cameron Whitehead Wins US Department of Energy's 2023 CyberForce Conquer the Hill – Reign Edition Competition"Cameron Whitehead of the University of Central Florida won the US Department of Energy's (DOE) 2023 CyberForce Conquer the Hill – Reign Edition Competition. This virtual event, coordinated by the DOE's Argonne National Laboratory, included 144…
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"Joven Claims City Had Major Data Breach"Odessa Mayor Javier Joven recently announced that someone had accessed the city's computer network numerous times since December using former Odessa City Attorney Natasha Brooks' accounts, which someone failed to deactivate following her termination on…
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"Cloudflare Reports Surge in Sophisticated DDoS Attacks"According to new research from the Content Delivery Network (CDN) provider Cloudflare, in the second quarter of this year, companies were hit with well-planned Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks launched by hacking groups, many of which are…
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"Initial Access Broker Posts Targeting Banks Increase on Dark Web"According to research conducted by Searchlight Cyber, Initial Access Brokers (IABs) on the dark web are increasingly targeting the banking sector. In addition, the dark web intelligence company discovered evidence of insiders sharing information about…
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"When Tech Vendors Make Key Logging Info Available for Free, Everyone Wins"Eric Goldstein, Executive Assistant Director for Cybersecurity at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), emphasizes that access to key logging data is crucial for quickly mitigating cyber intrusions, such as the recently identified…
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"Chrome 115 Patches 20 Vulnerabilities"Google recently announced the release of Chrome 115 to the stable channel, with patches for 20 vulnerabilities, including 11 reported by external researchers. Google noted that four of the externally reported security defects are assessed with a "…
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"FIA World Endurance Championship Driver Passports Leaked"The research team at Cybernews discovered that Le Mans Endurance Management, which operates the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) website, exposed data belonging to hundreds of drivers. The researchers discovered two misconfigured, publicly…
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"US Gov Adds Surveillance Firms Cytrox and Intellexa to Entity List for Trafficking in Cyber Exploits"The US government has placed Cytrox and Intellexa on an economic blocklist for trafficking in cyber exploits. The US Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) added the two surveillance technology vendors to the Entity List for…
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"Estee Lauder Hit by Cyberattack Affecting Some Business Operations"Cosmetics maker Estee Lauder recently announced that a hacker had obtained some data from its systems, with the cyber incident causing, and expected to further cause, disruption to parts of the company’s business operations. The company stated that…
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"Chinese APT41 Hackers Target Mobile Devices with New WyrmSpy and DragonEgg Spyware"WyrmSpy and DragonEgg, two previously undocumented Android spyware strains, have been linked to APT41, a prolific nation-state actor with ties to China. According to Lookout, an established threat actor such as APT41, known for exploiting web-facing…