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"DDoS Attacks Hit Citrix Application Delivery Controllers, Hindering Customer Performance"Citrix has reported that its Citrix Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) were hit by a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack. ADCs are networking products that allow security and network teams to manage application delivery speed and quality.…
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"Email Threat Predictions for 2021"Dan Fein, the Director of Email Security Products at the AI cybersecurity company Darktrace, gave his predictions about new tactics and techniques that email attackers could use in 2021. According to Fein, attackers will attempt to commit more supply…
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"Developing a Better Way to Address Vulnerabilities at the Source-Code Level"A team of researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), Purdue University, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) received a four-year, $3.9 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (…
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"Network Operator Spend on Multi-Access Edge Computing to Reach $8.3B by 2025"In a new study, researchers found that the amount of money network operators will spend on multi-access edge computing (MEC) will grow from $2.7 billion in 2020 to $8.3 billion in 2025, as operators invest heavily in upgrading network capacities and…
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"Only 30% Prepared to Secure a Complete Shift to Remote Work"Researchers at DTEX Systems conducted a new survey and discovered that that the biggest security concerns facing businesses are data leaking through endpoints (27 percent), loss of visibility of user activity (25 percent), and maintaining compliance…
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"Lazarus Group Hits COVID-19 Vaccine-Maker in Espionage Attack"Researchers at Kaspersky have found that the advanced persistent threat (APT) known as Lazarus Group and other sophisticated nation-state actors are actively trying to steal COVID-19 research to speed up their countries’ vaccine-development efforts.…
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"Apple Ships Hacker-Friendly iPhones to Security Researchers"Apple is sending hacker-friendly iPhones to security researchers. These iPhones allow researchers to examine the mobile OS for security vulnerabilities and report them easily. Researchers will be able to probe these iPhones for 12 months, which could be…
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"New Decryption Platform to Combat Encryption Misuse"Europol's European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) and the European Commission's Joint Research Centre have launched a new decryption platform that allows authorities to decrypt information gathered lawfully during criminal investigations. According to the…
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"Leaky Server Exposes 12 Million Medical Records to Meow Attacker"A team of cybersecurity researchers at SafetyDetectives discovered an unsecured Elasticsearch server belonging to the Vietnamese tech firm Innovative Solution for Healthcare (iSofH). This company provides medical information and hospital management…
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"Hey Alexa, Who Am I Messaging?"The potential for digital-home assistants like Amazon Alexa to infringe on user privacy by making and saving voice recordings of them is already widely known. According to new research by a team of researchers from the University of Cambridge,…
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"Emotet Returns to Hit 100K Mailboxes Per Day"Just in time for the Christmas holiday, researchers have found that after a lull of nearly two months, the Emotet botnet has returned with updated payloads and a campaign that is hitting 100,000 targets per day. The botnet is spreading TrickBot…
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"FBI Warns of DoppelPaymer Attacks on Critical Infrastructure"The FBI issued a warning to private sector organizations about DoppelPaymer ransomware attacks and the change in techniques used by the operators behind these attacks. DoppelPaymer has affected various industries and targets, demanding the payment of six…