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2017-11-30 11:44:45 | Eugene Kaspersky: We would quit Moscow if Russia asked us to spy (lien direct) | >Kaspersky Lab CEO Eugene Kaspersky has fired back at accusations that his company’s software was used to carry out spying for the Russian government, and said that if the Kremlin did ask the security firm to do anything wrong, he’d take the company out of the country. Reports have linked the use of Kaspersky software with the ... | ★★★★ | ||
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2017-11-30 11:43:29 | As Apple fixes macOS root password hole, here\'s what went wrong (lien direct) | Apple has emitted an emergency software patch to address the trivial to exploit vulnerability in macOS High Sierra, version 10.13.1, that allowed miscreants to log into Macs as administrators without passwords and let any app gain root privileges. The Cupertino iPhone giant kicked out the fix, Security Update 2017-001, today after word of the bug and methods ... | ★★★★★ | ||
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2017-11-30 11:42:14 | Uber says 2.7 MEEELLION(ish) UK users affected by hack (lien direct) | >Uber has finally come up with a figure for the number of UK-based riders and drivers affected by its massive data breach: 2.7 million. The taxi hire firm has been slammed by regulators around the world for keeping the hack, which happened in October 2016, quiet for the best part of a year. To make matters ... | Uber | ★★★★★ | |
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2017-11-30 11:40:58 | Google You Owe Us: Search engine sued for £2.7bn on behalf of 5.4 million people (lien direct) | >Google could be forced to pay £2.7bn in compensation after it was accused of selling the data of more than five million iPhone users without their consent. A class action has been launched against the search engine giant over claims it harvested the browsing histories of users of Apple’s device by using an algorithm bypassing ... | |||
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2017-11-30 11:38:23 | Facebook bot problem: Users forced to upload selfies to prove they are real (lien direct) | >Facebook, the world’s largest social network, has confirmed that it is attempting to “catch suspicious activity” by making users upload selfies to help prove they are real humans. A screenshot widely-shared across Twitter suggested the platform was now using a new checkpoint system in place of the traditional “captcha” verification process. “Facebook is now locking users out of account ... | |||
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2017-11-30 11:37:08 | Clarksons hack: Shipping giant fears hackers may leak confidential data over refusal to pay ransom (lien direct) | >UK shipping giant Clarksons confirmed that it was hit by hackers, who appear to have been successful in stealing sensitive and confidential corporate data. The firm said that it suspects that the hackers may soon leak the stolen data, likely in retaliation to the company refusing to meet the cybercriminals’ ransom demand. Clarksons said that the hackers had ... | |||
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2017-11-30 11:35:53 | New Ursnif variants silently targets banks and employ redirection attacks (lien direct) | >New Ursnif variants being tested in the wild are using redirection attacks to target Australian banks and malicious TLS callback techniques to achieve process injection.  The malware is based on the same code as the original Ursnif trojan, aka Gozi ISFB, but features modifications to the code injection level and to attack tactics, IBM Executive Security Advisor Limor ... | |||
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2017-11-29 11:46:01 | CIA continuing cloud push (lien direct) | >In a bid to keep up with the times, the CIA began cloud adoption in 2013 by leveraging Amazon Web Services (AWS) and today are currently “overachieving” where the cloud is concerned. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: ZDNet | |||
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2017-11-29 11:35:34 | Hi-tech thieves are stealing hi-tech cars (lien direct) | >Footage has emerged of burglars stealing a Mercedes from the owners driveway within a matter of minutes after the thieves used a relay box to transfer the signal from the transmission key, which was inside the house, to unlock the car. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Mirror | |||
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2017-11-29 11:25:24 | 17 year old Microsoft Flaw Exposed by Hackers (lien direct) | >Security researchers have brought to light a Microsoft Office flaw that existed for 17 years was being exploited by hackers who were delivering malware that had the capabilities of commanding infected systems. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: IBTimes UK | |||
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2017-11-29 11:15:54 | (Déjà vu) Top Secret NSA docs left unprotected (lien direct) | >It has been revealed that top secret files related to classified Army communication systems were left unprotected online for years. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: CBS News | ★★★★ | ||
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2017-11-29 11:02:14 | Major security flaw discovered in Mac (lien direct) | >Having discovered a serious bug within the MacOS High Sierra system which allows entry to the machine without a password and access administrator rights. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: BBC | ★★ | ||
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2017-11-29 10:54:33 | McAfee Labs previews five cybersecurity trends for 2018 (lien direct) | >McAfee Inc. today released its McAfee Labs 2018 Threats Predictions Report, which identifies five key trends to watch in 2018. This year's report focuses on the evolution of ransomware from traditional to new applications, the cybersecurity implications of serverless apps, the consumer privacy implications of corporations monitoring consumers in their own homes, long-term implications of ... | ★★★ | ||
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2017-11-29 10:53:05 | Identity for Sale (lien direct) | >Kroll Ontrack recently carried out a global security study that indicated we are putting our personal information at risk far too easily. The data recovery company analysed used drives to see if any traces of data remained after the previous owners sold them. Among the drives Kroll Ontrack examined, traces of data were found on ... | ★★★ | ||
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2017-11-29 10:50:28 | Alert Logic Unveils Cloud Insight Essentials and Integration with Amazon GuardDuty (lien direct) | >Alert Logic, a leading provider of Security-as-a-Service solutions for the cloud, yesterday announced at the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, the availability of Alert Logic Cloud Insight Essentials. Architected to support the newly launched Amazon GuardDuty, the new Alert Logic service helps users continuously identify and fix configurations of their Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments that don't ... | Guideline | ||
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2017-11-28 11:18:45 | Facebook bug can erase private images (lien direct) | >A security researcher has stumbled across a coding bug that allows the user to access and delete images, whether they are public or private when trying to set up opinion polls. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register | ★★ | ||
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2017-11-28 11:13:00 | Ever wondered how much electricity Bitcoin mining consumes? A lot (lien direct) | >The latest statistics released on Bitcoin mining have shown that the mining network uses more electricity in a year than the whole of Ireland. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register | ★★★ | ||
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2017-11-28 10:59:58 | Beware of the Mirai malware (lien direct) | >Security researchers have discovered a new strain of the Mirai IoT malware following the publication of exploit code targeting networking equipment with increased traffic scanning ports 2323 and 23. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: SC Magazine UK | ★★★★ | ||
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2017-11-28 10:50:27 | Three Chinese hackers charged by US Court (lien direct) | >Three Chinese citizens thought to have attacked international corporations such as Siemens, have been charged by a US Court. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: BBC | ★★★ | ||
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2017-11-28 10:44:34 | Majority of consumers would stop doing business with companies following a data breach, finds Gemalto (lien direct) | >A majority (70%) of consumers would stop doing business with a company if it experienced a data breach, according to a survey of more than 10,000 consumers worldwide conducted on behalf of Gemalto, the world leader in digital security. In addition, seven in ten consumers (69%) feel businesses don't take the security of customer data ... | Guideline | ||
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2017-11-28 10:41:59 | Stolen Credentials of FTSE 100 Employees Tripled in 2017 (lien direct) | >Anomali, has today released a new report that identifies major security trends threatening the FTSE 100*. The volume of credential exposures has dramatically increased to 16,583 from April to July 2017, compared to 5,275 last year's analysis. 77% of the FTSE 100 were exposed, with an average of 218 usernames and password stolen, published or ... | |||
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2017-11-28 10:39:56 | GlobalPlatform Standardizes Secure OS and Firmware Loading on Secure Elements (lien direct) | >GlobalPlatform, the standard for secure digital services and devices, has published its Open Firmware Loader for Tamper Resistant Elements (OFL). The free specification standardizes how secure element (SE) firmware – combining the secure operating system (OS), applications and data – can be remotely loaded and managed onto a SE such as SIM, embedded SE or ... | |||
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2017-11-27 10:38:09 | Imagine a hack proof & secured internet (lien direct) | Scientists have developed a hack proof, high speed encrpytion to secure the internet with the aim to fight against future cyber threats. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Tech Observer | |||
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2017-11-27 10:28:53 | Imgur hack hits 1.7m accounts in 2014 (lien direct) | >Imgur, the global image-sharing site has only recently uncovered that 1.7m email addresses and passwords were compromised in a 2014 breach. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Cnet | |||
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2017-11-27 10:24:09 | False information about measles and flu spread by Russian cyber teams (lien direct) | >UK security experts have warned that Russian cyber units are spreading false information about flu and measles jabs in the UK with the plan aimed at destroying the trust between in US and Europe. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Mirror | ★★★★ | ||
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2017-11-27 10:17:08 | Hackers hired by NHS (lien direct) | >As part of a £20 million cyberdefence plan, the NHS will be hiring ethical hackers to highlight and uncover vulnerabilities within the systems. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Times | ★★★★★ | ||
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2017-11-27 10:01:18 | CrowdStrike Predictions 2018 (lien direct) | >GDPR – SMB's will be hit the hardest due to security immaturity As GDPR comes into force on 25 May 2018, the burden of compliance will weigh most heavily on small and midsized businesses (SMBs). Businesses with immature security practices will likely be challenged to demonstrate their due diligence and compliance under the regulation. It's harder ... | ★★ | ||
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2017-11-27 09:56:39 | Swipe Right: All You Need to Bag Yourself a Business Owner or Some Company Secrets (lien direct) | >The saying goes 'don't mix business with pleasure', but research from Kaspersky Lab reveals business owners and employees could be unwittingly putting their companies at risk, with many of them using work devices to keep up their dating habits, or divulging company secrets when looking for matches. The study into the attitudes of online dating ... | ★★★★ | ||
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2017-11-27 09:54:54 | CYBER-MONDAY SHOPPING TIPS FOR THE SECURITY CONSCIOUS SHOPPER (lien direct) | >The holidays are upon us, and that means consumers are limbering up their mouse-clicking fingers in preparation to go shopping online. Online shopping is now mainstream and consumers are expected to spend more than £600 billion online this year, up 14% from a year ago. More than three-quarters of mid-sized to large retailers now sell ... | |||
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2017-11-24 09:46:16 | Kaspersky Lab\'s top tips for Black Friday safety (lien direct) | >It's predicted there will not so much be a 'Black Friday' but 'Black Thursday to Monday' (Thursday 23rd November – Monday 27th November.) Whilst this is great news for shoppers looking for a bargain, cybercriminals will also have a much bigger window to con bargain hunters. When analysing data from last year's seasonal sales, Kaspersky ... | |||
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2017-11-24 09:40:35 | It\'s the Riskiest Time of Year for Retailers (lien direct) | The 2017 holiday season is expected to be a busy time for retailers, with analysts predicting an average of £1bn per day in UK online spending during the seven days surrounding Black Friday. This will be followed by the frantic remainder of the holiday season, as even more shoppers hunt out perfect gifts and generate ... | |||
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2017-11-24 09:37:08 | Fortune and FTSE firms to spend millions on technology to support GDPR compliance, new survey shows (lien direct) | >FTSE and Fortune firms will spend on average £430,000 and $1m respectively on technology alone to ensure compliance with the upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), new research by international law firm Paul Hastings has shown today. The survey of 100 FTSE 350 General Counsel (GCs) and Chief Security Officers (CSOs) and 100 Fortune 500 ... | |||
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2017-11-22 11:32:30 | GDPR in plain English (lien direct) | >Businesses need to be absolutely clear about terms and definitions if they are to achieve compliance with the new General Data Protection Regulation. Semantics is rarely a matter of life and death, but a misunderstanding over a couple of words could do serious damage to your business. When the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes ... | ★★★ | ||
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2017-11-22 11:14:24 | Russian Hackers Stealing UK Air Miles (lien direct) | >Russian Hackers are allegedly exploiting UK residents’ air miles, and through phishing scams and hacked accounts, are stealing them to pay for luxury holidays. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: IBTimes | |||
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2017-11-22 11:11:55 | Iranian Military Hacker Indicted for HBO Hack (lien direct) | >The US DoJ has identified and indicted Iranian national, Behzad Mesri, in relation to this years HBO hack. Read Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register | ★★ | ||
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2017-11-22 11:07:26 | Denmark Steps up Cyber Security Efforts (lien direct) | >Denmarks defense minister has said that the country intends to step up and invest in their cybersecurity provisions. Read Full ORIGINAL SOURCE: Reuters | ★★★ | ||
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2017-11-22 10:59:51 | MuddyWater Hackers Target Middle East (lien direct) | >The hacking group, dubbed MuddyWater, has targeted Middle Eastern countries in a large scale cyber espionage campaign. Read Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: IB Times | ★★★★★ | ||
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2017-11-22 10:56:27 | (Déjà vu) Uber Concealed Massive Data Breach in 2016 (lien direct) | >It has been reported that Uber has concealed a massive data breach that affected 57 million customers. The breach occurred in 2016, and instead of disclosing the breach to the relevant authorities, the company paid the hackers $100,00 to delete the data. Read Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: BBC | Uber | ★★ | |
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2017-11-21 12:35:14 | Number of DDoS Attacks Have Doubled in Six Months As Criminals Leverage Unsecured IoT Devices (lien direct) | >Organisations experienced an average of 237 DDoS attack attempts per month during Q3 2017 – equivalent to 8 DDoS attack attempts every day – as hackers strive to take their organisations offline or steal sensitive data, according to the latest DDoS Trends and Analysis report from Corero Network Security (LSE: CNS), a leading provider of ... | Guideline | ||
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2017-11-21 12:20:23 | Hackers steal $30.95 Million of Bitcoin from Tether (lien direct) | >Tether, a cryptocurrency startup, has revealed that hackers have stolen $30.96 Million of bitcoin from the main Tether Treasury Wallet. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Bleeping Computer | |||
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2017-11-21 12:12:51 | Investment in AI set to rise by 2020 (lien direct) | >85% of senior exec’s plan to invest in AI and IoT by 2020, according to research published by Deloitte. Read Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Help Net Security | Deloitte | ||
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2017-11-21 12:03:25 | British MPs Pledge Support for Lauri Love (lien direct) | >More than 70 MPs in the UK have pledged their support for alleged hacker, Lauri Love, who is facing extradition to the US. Read Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: IB Times | |||
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2017-11-21 11:59:59 | (Déjà vu) Police Chief Peter Goodman Believes everyone in UK has been Hacked (lien direct) | >Police Chief Peter Goodman, the UK’s lead on Cybersecurity, believed everyone in the UK has probably been hacked, with persona data being sold on the dark web. Read Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Tech Republic | Guideline | ||
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2017-11-21 11:56:23 | (Déjà vu) Pentagon identified Kaspersky as Potential Threat in 2004 (lien direct) | >It has been reported that the Pentagon identified Kaspersky’s software as a potential threat as far back as 2004. Read Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: IB Times | |||
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2017-11-20 16:41:55 | UK Govt Launches £20 million Initiative to get kids into Cyber (lien direct) | >The UK Govt has today launched a £20 million program , to get schoolchildren interested in cyber security; the program is aimed at kids between 15-18. Read Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: BBC | ★★ | ||
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2017-11-20 16:30:33 | Terdot Banking Trojan Developing into Threat (lien direct) | >The Terdot banking trojan, first discovered in October 2016, is slowly believed to be growing into a sophisticated tool, that could not only act as a banking trojan, but also as an infostealer, or backdoor. Read Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Bleeping Computer | ★★ | ||
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2017-11-20 16:20:28 | Aadhaar Data Leak (lien direct) | >More than 200 central and state Govt websites have leaked the personal user data of individuals using India’s National ID system. Read Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: IBTimes | ★★ | ||
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2017-11-20 10:33:54 | Pricing of Goods and Services on the Deep & Dark Web (lien direct) | The Deep & Dark Web facilitates an expansive and dynamic underground economy shaped by the diverse skills and motivations of a wide range of adversaries. The forums and marketplaces where illicit goods and services are exchanged have come to play an influential role in today's cyber and physical threat landscape by providing access to the ... | |||
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2017-11-17 10:40:08 | (Déjà vu) Flaw discovered in Amazon Key (lien direct) | >A vulnerability has been discovered in the newly introduced Amazon Key, which allows couriers into your house without having to interact with the owners. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Inquirer | ★★★ | ||
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2017-11-17 10:30:33 | NSA hack blamed on Microsoft Software (lien direct) | >Kaspersky Labs are placing the blame on malware infected Microsoft Office software and not its own for the stolen top-secret data on US intelligence materials. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Gears of Biz | ★★★★★ |
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