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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: "… -
"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…
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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…