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"Hackers Could Increase Medication Doses Through Infusion Pump Flaws"Researchers have recently found that pacemakers, insulin pumps, mammography machines, ultrasounds, and monitors, contain worrying security vulnerabilities. The latest addition to that long lineup is a popular infusion pump and dock, the B. Braun…
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"Time to Fix High Severity Apps Increases by Ten Days"Researchers at NTT Application Security found that the average time to fix high severity application security flaws has increased by ten days in just a month. Although it found the "time to fix" had dropped overall by two days, from 202 days to 200…
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"Razer Bug Lets You Become a Windows 10 Admin by Plugging in a Mouse"A security researcher has disclosed a zero-day vulnerability in the device installer software for Razer peripherals. This vulnerability can allow a malicious actor to gain Windows administrator privileges just by plugging in a Razer mouse or…
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"Cybersecurity Experts Worried by Chinese Firm’s Control of Smart Devices"Cyber experts warn that Chinese tech giant Tuya’s IOT products may be a high security risk. Tuya makes products that have been incorporated into many of today's, smart devices including smart TVs, smart home security camera, home thermostats and…
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"DirtyMoe Botnet Returns With Undetectable Threat Profile"The newest version of the malware botnet known as DirtyMoe has made some significant changes, pushing it back into the spotlight. Its first iteration, NuggetPhantom, appeared in 2016. However, NuggetPhantom and other early samples of the threat did not…
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"Record-Setting DDoS Attack Hits Financial Service Firm"Cloudflare's autonomous edge distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) protection systems automatically detected and mitigated a 17.2 million request-per-second (RPS) DDoS attack. This attack is said to be nearly three times larger than any previous HTTP DDoS…
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"Gaming-Related Cyberthreats in 2020 and 2021"To measure the level of the cybersecurity risk associated with gaming, researchers at Kaspersky investigated several types of threats. The researchers examined malware and unwanted software disguised as popular PC and mobile games. The researchers used…
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"NYC Teachers' Social Security Numbers Exposed"In January, students at Brooklyn Technical High School reportedly stumbled across a Google Drive containing documents uploaded by staff and students at schools across New York City. Among the documents were college recommendation letters, classwork, and…
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"Crypto Platform Poly Network Rewards Hacker with $500,000 'Bug Bounty'"White Hacker returns millions in cryptocurrency hacked from Poly Network last week. The company has decided to offer the hacker a $500K bug bounty. The white hat hacker had stated that he/she had initiated the hack for fun—and was motivated to…
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"Ransomware: This Amateur Attack Shows How Clueless Criminals Are Trying to Get In on the Action"Cybersecurity researchers at Abnormal Security have released details about an amateur ransomware campaign in which social engineering is used in an attempt to trick employees into installing DemonWare ransomware on their organization's network, in return…
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"Maritime Cyber Alert: ‘BadAlloc’ Critical Vulnerability"The Coast Guard Cyber Command, Maritime Cyber Readiness Branch issued an alert to the Maritime community, recommending that they examine their systems to determine if they have BlackBerry QNX versions 6.5 or below, or any of the other products recently…