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"Accidental Data Breaches Are Often Compounded by a Failure to Encrypt"Findings of a national survey commissioned by Egress to which security professionals responded, show that accidental data breaches are often the result of a lack of encryption by organizations as well as the exposure of data by employees through the use…
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"Cyber security for Kids"Children are now being born in a cyber age, which means that if they are not taught cyber-knowledge at a young age, then that can represent a weakness from a security point-of-view. Cyber Defence Magazine reports: "Cyber security for…
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"Phishing Scam Cloaks Malware With Fake Google reCAPTCHA"A phishing campaign targeting a Polish bank and its customers was found to be using fake Google reCAPTCHAs to make its malicious landing page appear legitimate. The Android banking Trojan that is being distributed in this campaign is called BankBot,…
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"New Flaws in 4G, 5G Allow Attackers to Intercept Calls and Track Phone Locations"Three new flaws have been discovered in 4G and 5G cellular mobile communications protocols. According to a team of researchers, these flaws could be exploited by attackers to allow for the interception of phone calls and tracking of cell phone users'…
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"Vulnerability in mIRC Enables Hackers to Execute Remote Code"A vulnerability has been discovered in the Internet relay chat client, mIRC, that could be abused by hackers to run code in order to download additional malware. According to security researchers from ProofOfCalc, the three custom URI schemes…
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SoS Musings #23 - Unveiling Steganographic CyberattacksSoS Musings #23 Unveiling Steganographic Cyberattacks
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"Researchers Propose New Approach to Address Online Password-Guessing Attacks"Automated attacks aimed at guessing passwords have become a major threat to Web service providers. A new approach has been designed by two security researchers to address "breadth first" attacks in which password guesses are tried against a large…
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"WinRAR Patches 19-Year-Old Security Vulnerability That Put Millions at Risk"A 19-year old security vulnerability in WinRAR, discovered by researchers at Check Point Software Technologies, has been patched. The WinRAR bug could allow the extraction of a malicious program to a computer's startup folder, which could then…
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"Serious Flaw Found and Patched in Wordpress, but It Might Lurk in Plugins"Security company, RIPS Technologies, has revealed the possibility of WordPress websites being remotely hijacked through the exploitation of a flaw in third-party plugins. The bug has been categorized as a path traversal vulnerability. This article…
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"Drupal Critical Flaw: Patch This Remote Code Execution Bug Urgently, Websites Warned"Website administrators have been warned of a critical remote execution flaw impacting the content management system, Drupal. The exploitation of this bug could allow hackers to take over a Drupal site as well as a web server. Drupal's security team has…
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"Who Do You Call When You’re the Victim of a Cybercrime?"Israel has launched a cybersecurity hotline to help people who think they are dealling with computer security threats or intrustions. Israel’s national Computer Emergency Response Team, is staffed by students of Ben-Gurion University of…