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"Thousands of Industrial Refrigerators Can Be Remotely Defrosted, Thanks to Default Passwords"Over 7,000 internet-connected industrial refrigerators are vulnerable to being remotely instructed by malicious actors to defrost. The temperature controlled systems of these refrigerators are able to be found and controlled via the use of the Shodan…
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"'SpeakUp' Backdoor Trojan Could Spell Further Trouble for Linux Servers"Check Point researchers have reported the discovery of a new back door Trojan, called SpeakUP, which affects six different Linux distributions. SpeakUp has been found by researchers to be targeting servers primarily located in East Asia and Latin America…
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"Flaw in Multiple Airline Systems Exposes Passenger Data"Eight airlines have been found to contain security flaws in their e-ticketing systems. According to security researchers at Wandera, these e-ticketing systems lack encryption, allowing for the exposure of personally identifiable information (PII) to…
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"Restaurant Chain Huddle House Hacked in Point-Of-Sale Attack"Huddle House, a fast food chain, has fallen victim to a point-of-sale (POS) attack. In an advisory recently released by Huddle House, it is stated that the restaurant chain's POS systems were infected with malware through the compromise and use of a…
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"Hacker Discovers a MacOS Exploit That Is Able to Access System Passwords"A security researcher, named Linus Henze, has discovered a vulnerability in the latest version of MacOS Mojave, which could be exploited by hackers to access passwords stored in Keychain. Keychain is Apple's password management system. This article…
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"NSF Awards Researchers $1M to Improve Cybersecurity of Medical Data"A team of researchers led by Professor Yan Luo of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Lowell was awarded a $1 million grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in support of strengthening the…
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"Google Releases Chrome Extension That Alerts Users of Breached Passwords"A new Google Chrome Extension has been released, which aims to warn users of unsafe passwords. The Chrome browser extension called, Password Checkup, checks if credentials used to log into different websites have been exposed in past data breaches. This…
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"AI Won’t Solve All of Our Cybersecurity Problems"Artificial intelligence (AI) continues to grow in its application by businesses. However, questions remain in regards to the effectiveness of this technology in protecting businesses from cyber threats. This article further discusses the growing use…
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"Why All Users Should Change Passwords Today"All users are encouraged to increase the length of their passwords and refrain from using the same password for multiple accounts. Chris Morales, head of security analytics at Vectra, recommends the use of long, simple phrases as passwords instead of…
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"Malicious Hackers Can Abuse Siri Shortcuts: IBM"According to security researchers at IBM, Siri Shortcuts can be abused by attackers to demand the payment of ransoms. Through the use of Siri Shortcuts, users can be threatened by cybercriminals to pay ransoms in order to prevent the …
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"Improving Security for Internet of Things with 'Big-Thinking' Research"The growing use of IoT calls for the strengthening of such devices as the incidence of cyberattacks and data theft rises. Perry Alexander, a professor in electrical engineering and computer science and director of the Information and Telecommunication…
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"Apple Disables Group Facetime After Eavesdropping Bug Discovered"Following the discovery of a major bug in Apple's Group FaceTime that allows for the performance of eavesdropping, Apple has disabled the feature and announced the release of a patch to fix the bug. The exploitation of the bug would have allowed FaceTime…