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"NIST Gears up for Software Security and IoT Labeling Pilot Programs"In September 2021, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) held the "Workshop on Cybersecurity Labeling Programs for Consumers: Internet of Things (IoT) Devices and Software" and solicited comments from stakeholders and experts. NIST…
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"Security Researchers Discover Flaws in Wi-Fi Bluetooth SoCs"Researchers from the University of Darmstadt have published a paper discussing several security vulnerabilities that could impact billions of devices globally. The highlighted vulnerabilities are said to affect wireless Systems-on-Chip (SoCs) that…
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"Facebook Will Reward Researchers for Reporting Scraping Bugs"Facebook today announced that it is expanding its bug bounty and data bounty programs to reward security researchers for reporting scraping vulnerabilities and databases. As part of its bug bounty program, the company will pay monetary rewards to…
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"Web App Attacks Surge 251% in Two Years"Security researchers at Imperva have found that web application attacks on UK businesses have soared by over 250% since October 2019. The security vendor analyzed nearly 4.7 million web application-related cybersecurity incidents over the period to…
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"Ransomware Hits HR Solutions Provider Kronos, Locking Customers Out of Vital Services"Ultimate Kronos Group (UKG), a major human resources and workforce management solutions provider, was recently hit by a ransomware attack. A notice sent to affected customers revealed that the ransomware incident impacted the Kronos Private Cloud, which…
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"Anubis Android Malware Returns to Target 394 Financial Apps"In a new malware campaign, the Anubis banking Trojan is targeting customers of almost 400 financial institutions. The malicious actors behind the malware campaign impersonate an Orange S.A. Android app to steal login credentials. According to researchers…
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"Researchers Unveil New Cyber Protections against 'Logic Bombs'"A team of cybersecurity researchers from Rutgers University-New Brunswick and the Georgia Institute of Technology proposed new methods for protecting drones, prostheses, medical devices, and other 3D-printed objects from logic bombs. Rapid prototyping…
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"DHS Establishes Its Own Bug Bounty Program, Offering Outsiders $500 to $5K For Discovering Flaws"The Homeland Security Department is launching a bug bounty program to invite researchers to probe its systems for flaws. Under the “Hack DHS” initiative, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas stated that ethical hackers would receive between $500 and $5…
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"Police Arrest Suspected Ransomware Actor in Romania"European and US law enforcers have joined forces to arrest a suspected ransomware affiliate member who targeted firms in an IT supply chain attack. Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) supported the FBI and Romanian National Police in making…
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"Quantum Communication Research Network Launched"It is essential to continue efforts to improve the security of information exchange as digitalization grows. A communication network based on the laws of physics is one of the main methods proposed to ensure undetected eavesdropping is made impossible.…
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"Log4j Flaw: Attackers Are Making Thousands of Attempts To Exploit This Severe Vulnerability"Malicious cyber actors are making more than 100 attempts to exploit a critical security vulnerability contained by the Java logging library Apache Log4j every minute, according to security researchers at Check Point. The Log4j vulnerability, also now…
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"Sprawling Active Attack Aims to Take Over 1.6M WordPress Sites"An active attack against more than 1.6 million WordPress sites is underway, with researchers spotting tens of millions of attempts to exploit four different plugins and several Epsilon Framework themes. The researchers stated that the adversaries'…