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"Hacking Connected Cars to Gridlock Whole Cities"Internet-connected cars are more vulnerable to being hacked and disabled. A study conducted by a team of physicists at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Multiscale Systems Inc. looked into the effects that a large-scale hack on Internet-…
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"How to Reduce the Risk Posed by Vulnerable Mobile Apps"Findings of a recent study on the vulnerabilities contained by mobile apps for Android and iOS, call for the bolstering of mobile security. Inadequate mobile security poses a risk to the security and privacy of individuals and organizations as more…
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"Teenage Hackers Are Offered a Second Chance Under European Experiment"A legal intervention campaign aimed at giving young first-time cybercrime offenders a second chance, called Hack_Right, has been created by police in the U.K. and the Netherlands. The effort is geared towards people between the ages of 12 and 23 who are…
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"Companies Struggle With the Slow, Unpredictable Nature of AI Projects"AI is becoming more frequently used in every day businesses. Even though AI is increasingly in use throughout the modern enterprise, many organizations will be unable to realize the full potential of their deployments until they find faster…
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"One Million Bank Phone Calls Found in Exposed Server"An independent researcher has the discovered the exposure of an Amazon S3 bucket that contains data belonging to Bank of Cardiff. This data contains more than one million audio recordings of phone calls made by the bank's employees. Some of the phone…
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"Capital One Breach Also Hit Other Major Companies, Say Researchers"Researchers at the security firm, CyberInt, say that the recent data breach faced by Capitol One may affect other major organizations, including Vodafone, Ford, Michigan State University and the Ohio Department of Transportation. Slack messages sent by…
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"Tech Companies Not Doing Enough to Protect Users from Phishing Scams"Academics from Plymouth's Center for Security, Communications, and Network (CSCAN) Research conducted a study in which they examined the effectiveness of phishing filters in different email providers. The majority of potential phishing messages used in…
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"New to Autonomous Security"Efforts continue to be made to make cybersecurity more autonomous. According to the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA), cybersecurity is about being faster than adversaries and keeping up with the continuously changing threat landscape.…
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"AWDL Flaws Open Apple Users to Tracking, MitM, Malware Planting"It has been discovered that there are vulnerabilities in Apple Wireless Direct Link (AWDL), the wireless protocol that underpins Apple’s AirPlay and AirDrop services. These vulnerabilities could allow attackers to track users in spite of MAC…
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"Google Researchers Disclose Vulnerabilities for 'Interactionless' iOS Attacks"Two members of Google’s team of security analysts dedicated to finding zero-day vulnerabilities in software products, called Project Zero, have released details on six critical vulnerabilities that affect the iOS operating system. These vulnerabilities…
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"U.S. Issues Hacking Security Alert for Small Planes"The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) has issued an alert for small planes pertaining to the vulnerability of modern flight systems to hacking. According to the ICS Alert, a small…
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"Researchers Hack Surveillance Systems to Show Fake Video Feed"Security researchers at Forescout conducted a study in which they examined the security vulnerabilities contained by Internet of Things (IoT) devices being used in smart buildings such as IP cameras, smart lighting, and more. Organizations are…