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"U.S. Senators Announce Federal Cybersecurity Workforce Bills"In an attempt to fill the federal cybersecurity workforce gap, a bipartisan bill, called the Cyber Security Exchange Act, has been introduced by U.S. senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and John Thune (R-SD). The bill would allow the development of a public-… -
"Trickbot Becomes One of the Most Dangerous Pieces of Modular Malware Hitting Enterprises"A modular malware, called Trickbot, has been upgraded by its creators to steal credentials from commonly used remote access software. In addition, Trickbot is capable of disabling Microsoft’s Windows Defender, stealing passwords from Microsoft Outlook,…
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"Your Android Phone Can Get Hacked Just by Opening an Image"A new critical security vulnerability has been discovered in the Android operating system framework. This vulnerability could allow attackers to launch malicious code on Android devices via PNG image files. This article continues to discuss how…
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"Phishing, Humans Root of Most Healthcare Attacks"The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conducted a survey to which 166 U.S. based information security professionals responded. Respondents of the survey cited phishing and human error as the main causes behind the compromise…
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"Local Cyber Security Expert Warns about Thieves Targeting Keyless Cars""Cyber security experts are warning about a tactic criminals are using to target keyless cars. People who have cars that start with key fobs may be in danger of having not only their items stolen but also the car itself." KRGV.com reports: "…
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"Electric Scooters Can Be Hacked to Suddenly Accelerate or Brake"A security flaw has been discovered in a popular electric scooter manufactured by China’s Segway-Ninebot, called the Xiaomi M365. Security researchers from Zimperium have revealed that hackers can exploit this flaw to manipulate the acceleration of the…
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"Cybersecurity Workers Scramble to Fix a Post-Shutdown Mess"Following the recent U.S. government shutdown, government cybersecurity employees are trying to get federal cybersecurity operations back up to speed. During the government shutdown, web encryption certificates for many federal websites expired, software…
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"Client-Side DNS Attack Emerges From Academic Research"A new DNS poisoning attack that targets the client-side DNS cache has been presented by a team of researchers. The attack can be launched through the exploitation of a vulnerability in mDNSResponder. Researchers successfully demonstrated the attack on…
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"New TLS Encryption-Busting Attack Also Impacts the Newer TLS 1.3"A new variation of the original Bleichenbacher oracle attack has been discovered by a team of researchers, which is capable of breaking encrypted TLS traffic. According to researchers, the attack can be used against the newest version of the TLS…
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"Artificial Intelligence to Make Life Harder for Hackers"A tool, named DeepCode, has been developed by researchers to further complicate the infiltration of networks by hackers. DeepCode uses neural networks to help identify software vulnerabilities that could be exploited by cybercriminals to enter…
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"Quantifying How Much Quantum Information Can Be Eavesdropped"A new study conducted by a team of Chinese physicists aims to improve upon the reliability of the process in which quantum secrets are shared. Current findings of this study in relation to the distributions of entanglement in multi-qubit systems can be…
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"Why U.S. Firms Are Less Cyber-Secure Than They Think"The results of a survey conducted by Ovum to which five hundred senior executives, most of which are IT managers, responded, show that there is great confidence in the sufficiency of cyber defenses implemented by companies. This article continues to…