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  • "Many Mobile Apps Intentionally Using Insecure Connections for Sending Data"
    A new study by Symantec analyzed hundreds of thousands of Android and iOS apps released to Google Play and Apple's App Store between 2017 and 2021. The study's goal was to identify apps breaking the green padlock, which indicates a secure communication…
  • "Can Machine Learning Help Detect Zero-Day Malware?"
    Research has been conducted on the use of Machine Learning (ML) models to improve static malware analysis to detect zero-day exploits as well as untracked malware. The study was performed through a fourth-month academic-private sector partnership between…
  • "What's Behind Rising Ransomware Costs?"
    The U.S. division of the global meat company JBS made the decision to pay $11 million to the operators behind the ransomware attack launched against its facilities in order to prevent any potential risk for its customers. The company also revealed that…
  • "Texas to Publish Data Breach Notifications"
    Lawmakers in Texas have passed a bill requiring notices to be published online of any data breaches involving the personal information of 250 or more Lone Star State residents. The unanimously passed House Bill 3746, which amends the Texas Business and…
  • "Gaming Giant EA Suffers Major Data Breach"
    Gaming giant Electronic Arts (EA) have discovered that hackers have stolen a wealth of data, including game source code and tools for several popular games. The hackers behind the attack have advertised a total of 780GB of data for sale on a dark web…
  • "Fastly's Global Internet Meltdown Could Be a Sign of Things to Come"
    Many popular websites, including Amazon, Reddit, PayPal, Spotify, the Guardian, the New York Times, and more, faced an hour-long outage on the morning of June 8. The issue was traced back to the cloud computing company Fastly, which provides a Content…
  • "Mystery Malware Steals 26M Passwords from Millions of PCs"
    Researchers with NordLocker have discovered a 1.2-terabyte batch of data containing 26 million sets of login credentials, 1.1 million unique email addresses, over 2 billion browser cookies, and 6.6 million files. The massive trove of sensitive data…
  • "Meat Company JBS Confirms It Paid $11M Ransom in Cyberattack"
    On May 31, the world's largest meat processing company JBS confirmed that it faced a ransomware attack. The attack affected some servers supporting the company's operations in North America and Australia, disrupting production for several days. The…
  • "'PrivacyMic': For a Smart Speaker That Doesn't Eavesdrop"
    One of the challenges associated with smart home systems is that they are always on and listening. This raises privacy concerns because such systems could be streaming all of a user's audio back to some servers that could be used for anything,…
  • "RockYou2021: Largest Password Compilation of All Time Leaked Online with 8.4 Billion Entries"
    A list of leaked passwords was posted on a hacker forum, which may be the largest password collection of all time. The 100 GB text file, dubbed RockYou2021, contains 8.4 billion entries of passwords believed to have been gathered from past data breaches…
  • "Ransomware Struck Another Pipeline Firm—and 70 GB of Data Leaked"
    The ransomware attack against Colonial Pipeline, which led to a rise in gas prices, panic buying, and localized fuel shortages, brought further attention to how dangerous the disruption of the petrochemical pipeline industry could be. It appears that…
  • "CyLab Researchers Discover Novel Class of Vehicle Cyberattacks"
    A team of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's CyLab discovered a new class of cybersecurity vulnerabilities contained by modern vehicles. According to the researchers, the exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to bypass a…