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"Hackers Disrupt Iran's Rail Service with Fake Delay Messages"Iran's railroad system recently faced a cyberattack in which hackers posted fake messages about train delays or cancellations on display boards at stations across the country. The hackers posted messages on the display boards such as "long-delayed…
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"Yearlong Phishing Campaign Targets Energy Firms"Researchers at cybersecurity company Intezer have discovered that a campaign that uses remote access Trojans and malware-as-a-service infrastructure for cyber espionage purposes has targeted large international energy companies for at least a year. The…
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"NUS Researchers Bring Attack-Proof Quantum Communication Two Steps Forward"The secure communication method, Quantum Key Distribution (QKD), uses particles of light known as photons to encode data in quantum bits, which are transmitted to a sender and receiver in the form of an encryption key. Although the security of QKD is…
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"Fraudulent Content Has a Direct Impact on Consumer Loyalty"Researchers conducted a new survey of 1,200 U.S consumers where they examined how weaponized content is moving the fraud economy forward and consumer perception of content fraud . The researchers found that scams accounted for 59% of blocked user-…
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"People Don't Realize They're Data Breach Victims"Most participants in a recent study conducted by the University of Michigan School of Information did not know that their email addresses and other personal information had been involved in data breaches. Researchers presented facts from up to three…
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"DoD Watchdog Says 3D Printers Pose Cybersecurity Risks"A report from the Department of Defense (DoD) Office of Inspector General (OIG) found that 3D printers pose cybersecurity risks to the agency. DoD employees were discovered not properly securing the IT systems used for 3D product development. They were…
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"File Security Violations Within Organizations Have Spiked 134% as The World Reopened For Business"Researchers at BetterCloud surveyed more than 500 IT and security professionals and examined internal data from thousands of organizations and users during a new study. The study's goal was to understand organizations' top challenges, priorities,…
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"Ransomware-as-a-Service: Negotiators Are Now in High Demand"Victoria Kivilevich, a threat intelligence analyst at KELA, published findings from a study on Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) trends suggesting that one-person operations are diminishing because of the profitability of the criminal ransomware business.…
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"Brits Lose Over £1bn in Fraud So Far This Year"Researchers have found that Brits have lost over £1bn to fraud and cybercrime in the first six months of 2021. The study revealed that 81,018 fraud and cybercrime-related police reports were issued in Q2 2021, with UK residents experiencing a total loss…
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"Microsoft Confirms 'PrintNightmare' Vulnerability Affects All Windows Versions"The PrintNightmare vulnerability is part of the Windows Print Spooler and allows remote code execution. This enables hackers to gain system privileges on a device to install programs, view, change, and delete data and create accounts with full user…
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"NIST Maps Out the Migration to Post-quantum Cryptography"The National Institute of Standards and Technology's National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) released a draft document outlining migration challenges and approaches to making the migration from public-key cryptographic algorithms to quantum-…
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"The Kaseya Ransomware Attack Is a Really Big Deal"The Kaseya ransomware incident brings further attention to the importance of improving software supply chain security. Kaseya is a managed service provider (MSP), helping its customers manage their IT infrastructure. The company can deploy software to…