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"More Than 2m AT&T Phones Illegally Unlocked by Bribed Insiders"It has been discovered that between 2012 and 2017, an individual recruited AT&T employees at the company’s call center in Bothell, Washington, to plant malware and misuse the company's computer networks to illegally unlock phones. To… -
"Security Researchers Find That DSLR Cameras Are Vulnerable to Ransomware Attack"Security researchers at Check Point have released a new report, detailing the vulnerability of digital DSLR cameras to being hit by ransomware attacks. According to a researcher, named Eyal Itkin, malware could be delivered to these cameras through the…
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"Attackers’ Growing use of Anti-Analysis, Evasion Tactics Pose a Challenge to Enterprises"It has been dicovered that it is becoming harder for organizatioins to detect malware. Many modern malware tools are now incorporating features for evading antivirus or other threat detection measures, but cyber adversaries are becoming more…
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"Yet Another Hacking Group Is Targeting Oil and Gas Companies"A new hacking group, dubbed Hexane, has been discovered by the industrial security company, Dragos. The newly discovered hacking group targets telecommunications, oil, and gas companies in the Africa, Central Asia, and the Middle East. Hexane is one of…
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"Tablet for Kids Had Flaws That Exposed Info, Location"The LeapPad Ultimate is a tablet designed for children between the ages of 3 and 6 that has recently been discovered by researchers from Checkmarx to be vulnerable to hacking. According to researchers, the tablet contains flaws that could be…
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"Researchers Show Vulnerabilities in Facial Recognition"Research conducted by Yu Chen, Bin Ma, and Zhou (HC) Ma at Tencent Security's Zuanwu Lab explored the implementation and defense mechanisms of biometric authentication. One of the researchers performed a demonstration at Black Hat USA 2019 in which they…
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"U.S. Utility Firms Hit by State-Sponsored Spear-Phishing Attack"Three U.S. utility companies were the targets of a spear phishing campaign in which new malware, called LookBack, was used. The spear phishing emails sent to these companies appeared to be from a U.S.-based engineering licensing board. However, once the…
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"New SWAPGS Side-Channel Attack Bypasses Spectre and Meltdown Defenses"Researchers from the security firm, Bitdefender, have demonstrated a new side-channel attack similar to that of Spectre and Meltdown, called SWAPGS. The attacks could be performed through the abuse of modern CPUs' speculative execution capabilities,…
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"A Model Hospital Where the Devices Get Hacked—on Purpose"A mock hospital, called the Medical Device Village, will be set up at the 2019 DefCon hacking conference. The model hospital will consist of various medical devices, including pacemakers, insulin pumps, and other gadgets that one would find in an actual…
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"New Windows Malware can Also Brute-Force WordPress Websites"A new malware strain has been discovered named Clipsa. Clipsa has been affecting users for the past year and has affected users all over the world. This malware is different from most forms of malware mainly because it can conduct brute-…
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Summer Internship at NSA in Science of SecurityThe National Security Agency is currently taking applications for internships in the summer 2020 for its Summer Program in Science of Security. Applications are being accepted until October 15, 2019.
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"From State-Sponsored Attackers to Common Cybercriminals: Destructive Attacks on the Rise"According to a report recently released by IBM X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services (IRIS), there has been a significant increase in destructive attacks against organizations. These attacks aim to paralyze organizations by deleting data,…