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2018-02-22 10:57:04 | SEC publishes updated guidance on cyber breach disclosure (lien direct) | The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission published on Wednesday updated guidance on how public companies should disclose cyber security risks and breaches. The SEC unanimously approved the additional guidance Tuesday, saying it would promote “clearer and more robust disclosure” by companies facing cyber security issues, according to Chairman Jay Clayton. The new guidance says that companies should disclose cyber ... | |||
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2018-02-21 14:12:00 | Young Brits \'lack cyber-security awareness\' (lien direct) | More than 52% of Britons aged 18-25 are using the same password for lots of online services, suggests a survey. By doing so they make it easy for hackers to hijack accounts, warned the UK government’s Cyber Aware campaign. The danger was acute because of the sensitive data people typically send via email and other ... | ★★ | ||
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2018-02-21 14:11:02 | SPH-owned HardwareZone Forum hacked; 685,000 users affected in Singapore\'s largest data breach (lien direct) | The personal details of 685,000 registered HardwareZone forum users were compromised in a security breach. This is Singapore's largest data breach to date. The actual hacking reportedly took place in September last year but SPH Magazines only discovered the breach last Sunday, 18 Feb 2018 – months after the breach occurred. According to SPH Magazines, ... | ★★★★★ | ||
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2018-02-21 14:10:04 | Confidential data stolen from Tesla after staff failed to secure cloud server (lien direct) | According to researchers at cloud security firm RedLock Ltd., hackers infiltrated Tesla's Kubernetes software console after the company failed to secure it with a password. Within one of the Kubernetes pods, a group of software containers deployed on the same host, sat the access credentials to Telsa's Amazon Web Service Inc. account. The hackers then stole confidential data, ... | Uber Tesla | ||
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2018-02-21 14:09:05 | Researchers find free ransomware variant being distributed on the Dark Web (lien direct) | Security researchers have identified a ransomware variant that is available for free on the Dark Web and is even unregistered. The discovery comes at a time when the ransomware trade is running on handsome commissions and bounty-sharing occurs between malware sellers and buyers. The distribution of ransomware among hackers and cyber-criminals on the Dark Web ... | Spam | ||
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2018-02-21 14:08:01 | Watch Out, Your Smart Speakers Could be Hacked… (lien direct) | With Apple’s Homepod finally on the market, the trifecta of voice assistants from Amazon, Google, and Apple is complete. However, with more devices on the market, there are higher chances hackers will find vulnerabilities and steal your information. Jason Glassberg, co-founder of Casaba Security and self-proclaimed “ethical hacker,” joins Cheddar to discuss how to protect ... | ★★★★ | ||
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2018-02-21 14:07:03 | Reaper: Little-known North Korean hacker group steps up attacks in Vietnam, Japan and Middle East (lien direct) | A lesser-known North Korean cyberespionage group has been rapidly widening its scope and skills to step up attacks beyond the Korean Peninsula to include Japan, Vietnam and the Middle East in 2017, security researchers have said. According to cybersecurity firm FireEye, the shadowy hacker group dubbed APT37 or Reaper has been active since 2012 and ... | Cloud | APT 37 | ★★★★ |
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2018-02-21 14:05:00 | Bad news: 43% of login attempts \'malicious\' Good news: Er, umm… (lien direct) | An extraordinary 43 per cent of all attempted online account logins are malicious, Akamai claims in its latest internet security report. “Credential abuse” is an increasingly popular line of attack, thanks in large part to the readily availability of huge user/password databases that has been stolen and are sold online. Akamai identifies two main types ... | |||
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2018-02-21 13:50:04 | New FCA stats reveal a fourfold rise in reported data hacking attacks (lien direct) | New figures from the FCA show that reported data hacking attacks against financial services companies have quadrupled in the last year. The new statistics, contained in a freedom of information response to audit, tax and consulting firm RSM, show that reported incidents of loss of data resulting from hacking have risen from 4 in 2016 ... | ★★★★★ | ||
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2018-02-21 13:48:05 | Business leaders report urgent need for cybersecurity skills as digital talent gap widens (lien direct) | A new report by Capgemini's Digital Transformation Institute highlights an urgent and growing cybersecurity talent gap, calling for new recruitment and retention strategies to help organisations contain cyber risks and build competitive advantage. The report, Cybersecurity Talent: The Big Gap in Cyber Protection, demonstrates that of all the digital skills necessary for organisations with aspirations of ... | ★★★ | ||
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2018-02-21 13:43:04 | The Cloud Goes Critical (lien direct) | Written by John Arrasjid, Engineer Technologist for Virtustream The year 2016 may have been one of the most dramatic years on record for the cloud, but 2017 was no slouch either. From cut-throat competition, eyebrow-raising co-opetition, and major advances in cloud-based machine learning, 2017 was a pivotal – and productive – year for the cloud, ... | |||
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2018-02-20 11:19:04 | Critical national infrastructure is only as vulnerable as the standard of technology protecting it (lien direct) | By Greg Sim, CEO, Glasswall Solutions Energy, transport, water, health and other critical services firms are at risk of being fined up to £17m in May, if they don't adopt best-practice cyber-security methods. In an attempt to boost the cyber-protection of the UK's most critical industries, the government is pushing firms to turn to the ... | |||
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2018-02-19 14:40:01 | Europe\'s Hacktivists Set Sights on Political Entities (lien direct) | By Roman Sannikov, Director of European Research and Analysis, Flashpoint The tumultuous state of global politics that defined 2017 continues to shape the motivations and schemes of a wide range of adversaries. In October, CNBC reported two Czech election websites were hacked and that, after Catalonia's independence referendum was ruled illegal, the website for ... | |||
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2018-02-19 14:37:01 | Positive Technologies detected vulnerabilities in a popular network control software (lien direct) | The Positive Technologies experts discovered vulnerabilities in WhatsUp Gold by Ipswitch. This software allows automatic detection of network resources and their interaction, defining network status and availability, and for managing configuration. “Use of the vulnerable version of WhatsUp Gold in a manufacturing company may cause cyberincidents and even disrupt the technological process,” says Head of ... | |||
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2018-02-19 14:35:00 | Tomorrow\'s cyber elite return to University of Cambridge for Inter-ACE cyber security challenge (lien direct) | Over 130 competitors from 18 of the UK's leading cyber security universities will pit their skills against one another in a two-day cyber security competition organised by the University of Cambridge. Now in its third year, the Inter-ACE is supported by GCHQ's National Cyber Security Centre to attract the best young minds into careers in ... | Guideline | ||
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2018-02-19 14:31:00 | Snapchat Phishing Scam: 55,000 users Compromised (lien direct) | More than 55,000 Snapchat users had their login details exposed online thanks to a clever phishing scam. Read Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Sun | |||
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2018-02-19 14:28:03 | Hackers make $3m targeting Jenkins servers (lien direct) | Hackers are targeting Jenkins CI servers, the popular open source automation server written in Java, to deploy malware and secretly mine millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency. Read Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: IB Times | |||
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2018-02-19 14:25:03 | Savers Lose Millions to Fraudsters (lien direct) | The Times has revealed that a surge in criminals targeting British pension riches means savers are being scammed out of half a million pounds every day. Read Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Times | |||
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2018-02-16 16:34:05 | Russia blamed again for NotPetya (lien direct) | Australia has joined the UK and US in blaming Russia for the NotPetya attacks. This comes after much consultation with the Australian intelligence services and the UK and US governments. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: ZDNet | NotPetya | ||
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2018-02-16 16:21:03 | 100s of vulnerabilities uncovered by Hack the Air Force 2.0 (lien direct) | Bug bounty platform HackerOne uncovered over 100 vulnerabilities after hosting a 20 day competition to find flaws in federal systems. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: ZDNet | ★★★★ | ||
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2018-02-16 16:16:05 | Russian hackers steal $6 million on SWIFT system (lien direct) | An unknown group of hackers have stolen a reported $6 million after a successful attack on the SWIFT international payments messaging systems in Russia last year. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Reuters | ★★★★★ | ||
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2018-02-16 15:14:03 | The Destructive nature of North Korean Cyber-Attacks (lien direct) | Attacks like WannaCry and NotPetya were highly destructive on a scale never seen before. The disruption has still left some organisations suffering from the financial repercussions. The reach of the attacks shocked many within the cyber industry and just this month, Ciaran Martin, the head of the National Cyber Security Centre, warned UK organisations to ... | NotPetya Wannacry | ★★ | |
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2018-02-16 12:56:04 | How cryptojacking came to be, what to watch out for, and how Citrix can help you avoid it like the plague! (lien direct) | Cryptojacking targets both endpoints and servers – both on-premises and in the cloud. The goal is the same: enslave a massive botnet of devices and harness CPU cycles to mine cryptocurrency with minimal cost or investment. I briefly introduced the concept in the previous Digital Vikings blog post and the threat has grown month after month, likely ... | ★★★ | ||
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2018-02-16 12:54:00 | Lackadaisical Employee Attitudes to Cyber Security are the Biggest Risks to Enterprises (lien direct) | The role of IT in defending against cyberattacks is more difficult than ever. It becomes even more challenging when IT departments are forced to tackle the lack of willingness by employees to take precautionary steps against attacks. Based on new research involving more than 2,000 business and IT professionals at companies from various industries ... | ★★★★★ | ||
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2018-02-16 12:43:00 | 2018 Winter Olympics: Citius, Altius, Fortius, Cyber Attacks? (lien direct) | Only days into the Winter Olympics and reports of cyber attacks are making headlines. Officials have confirmed that a cyber attack is to blame for an internet and Wi-Fi shutdown during the opening ceremony. Noncritical systems were impacted – including the official Olympics website, which according to reports, went offline when organizers shut down ... | ★★★★★ | ||
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2018-02-15 12:25:03 | Windows 10 sees growth in critical vulns (lien direct) | Between 2016 and 2017, there was an increase in the number of critical vulnerabilities reported for Windows 10. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Dark Reading | ★★ | ||
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2018-02-15 12:21:00 | Call for more securer Elections in the US (lien direct) | US Democrats have introduced legislation that would allocate roughly $1 billion to secure America’s voting system. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Gizmodo | |||
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2018-02-09 17:18:16 | Go to the dark web if you want some Cryptocurrency…15% off too! (lien direct) | Hackers behind the $530m cryptocurrency heist have started selling their coins across the dark web and at a reduce rate. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: IBTimes UK | |||
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2018-02-09 17:14:03 | Air-gapped systems not safe from hackers (lien direct) | >Security researchers have released research which has revealed that they were able to steal data from air-gapped computers but also from a computer inside a Faraday cage. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Hacker News | |||
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2018-02-09 17:03:46 | (Déjà vu) Biggest ever Apple Iphone Leak Reveled (lien direct) | >A secret part of Apple’s iPhone software has been posted online in a leak that could potentially allow hackers to find security holes in the smartphone. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Telegraph | ★★★★ | ||
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2018-02-09 11:09:43 | EMEA in Firing Line for Evolving DDoS Threats (lien direct) | >F5 Labs today released new figures highlighting how DDoS attacks continue to grow and evolve in EMEA. According to customer data from F5's Poland-based Security Operations Center (SOC), 2017 saw a 64% rise in mitigated incidents. EMEA is also firmly in the firing line, accounting for over 51% of reported global DDoS attacks. Reflecting ... | ★★★ | ||
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2018-02-09 11:05:48 | Is Investing in Cryptocurrency Worth the Security Threats? (lien direct) | >Even people who aren't familiar with investing have heard of cryptocurrency - especially lately since it has frequently made headlines. Some of those news stories about digital currencies focus on the rapid rises - and seemingly inevitable declines - of Bitcoin, one of the most well-known cryptocurrencies. Others discuss how people had relatively stable lifestyles ... | ★★★★ | ||
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2018-02-08 11:38:45 | Have we got a training and safety programme in place?- A key question today\'s CEOs should ask (lien direct) | >I have recently been writing a series of articles that tackle the various questions CEOs should be asking their teams when it comes to cybersecurity prevention. Previously I've written about how organisations are managing risks, the evolution of the budget and understanding the top five risks or high-risk areas within the business. In this article ... | ★★★★★ | ||
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2018-02-08 11:32:22 | Cryptocurrency Marketplaces Hit by a Spectrum of Attacks Amidst Major Shifts in Cybercrime, Reveals New ThreatMetrix Report (lien direct) | >ThreatMetrix®, The Digital Identity Company®, today revealed a 113 percent year-over-year increase in cyberattacks in Q4 2017, as both the volume and the nature of attacks transform. The Battle for a Safe Cryptocurrency Market The Q4 2017 Cybercrime Report reveals that cryptocurrency marketplaces, designed to facilitate trading on the full range of digital currencies, are ... | ★★★★ | ||
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2018-02-08 11:06:04 | You can still be tracked even with the GPS off! (lien direct) | >Researchers at IEEE have shown it is possible to track mobiles even when GPS and Wi-Fi are turned off, with some of the data collected without permission with smartphone manufactures deeming the information non-sensitive. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register | ★★★★ | ||
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2018-02-08 10:55:08 | Zero-Day Attack Deployed by N.Korean APT Group (lien direct) | >Zero-Day deployment by North Korean hacking groups is uncommon which is why the Adobe Flash Player Zero-Day exploit that was discovered last week was out of character. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Dark Reading | ★★★★ | ||
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2018-02-08 10:19:46 | Cyber Warning issued at 2018 Winter Olympics (lien direct) | >A report by McAfee has revealed that the Winter Olympics has seen a rise in the number of Games-related malicious scams aimed at tricking web users into handing over details. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Express | |||
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2018-02-08 10:16:19 | Accidental DDoS just as dangerous (lien direct) | >A developer error resulted in a DDoS attack that was created out of the Lethic spambot which directed junk traffic requests to non-existent domains. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: CSO Online | |||
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2018-02-08 10:09:38 | Samsung and Roku TV\'s vulnerable to hacking (lien direct) | Millions of smart TV’s are vulnerable to hackers according to latest Consumer Report with TCL and Roku TV smart TVs affected. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: CNET | |||
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2018-02-07 11:16:10 | Increasing hacker threats to the Healthcare Industry (lien direct) | >According to a recent report from cybersecurity firm Norton, hackers stole a total of £130bn from consumers in 2017. These attacks hit over 978m victims around the world and include large scale attacks on the NHS like WannaCry. However, surprisingly, still more than a quarter of those compromised believe they are safe from future attacks. ... | Wannacry | ★★★★★ | |
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2018-02-07 11:11:15 | The Truth behind the Cyber Skills Gap (lien direct) | >With it being 2018 and the start of a new year, one would assume it would bring a fresh start, filled with new possibilities and opportunities for the cyber industry. In reality, the problems have remained the same. Nearly every year seems to sprout an attack that impacts organisations on a global scale – 2017 was ... | |||
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2018-02-06 14:05:24 | Crypto botnets causing mass disruption (lien direct) | >WannaMine and Smominru are causing havoc within the cryptocurrency realm with cyber criminals looking to take advatange of the Bitcoin, Ethereum and Monero boom. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Silicon Republic | ★★★★ | ||
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2018-02-06 13:17:37 | Proof in the X.509 metadata pudding (lien direct) | >Jason Reaves, a security researcher who last year demonstrated that X.509 certificate exchanges could carry out malicious traffic has now published his proof-of-concept code. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register | ★★★ | ||
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2018-02-06 12:32:19 | (Déjà vu) Malware hacking campaign targeting Olympics (lien direct) | >A phishing campaign targeting organisations that are linked or involved with the 2018 Winter Olympics has been discovered by McAfee. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Cyberscoop | ★★★★★ | ||
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2018-02-06 12:24:01 | NHS failing at cybersecurity (lien direct) | >The Department of Health (DoH) has assessed every NHS trust for cybersecurity vulnerabilities and concluded that they all failed to meet the required safety standards. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Guardian | ★★★★★ | ||
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2018-02-06 12:16:11 | Luminosity Link RAT exterminated (lien direct) | >A UK-led operation with the support of Europol has resulted in the termination of the Luminosity LinK Remote Access Trojan which allowed cybercriminals to remotely gain complete control over a victim’s computer. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Helpnetsecurity | ★★★★ | ||
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2018-02-06 09:57:42 | (Déjà vu) Is The Bright Web More Dangerous Than the Dark? (lien direct) | >When an organisation is hacked, its customer data or other stolen information will often end up being sold on what's known as the dark web. As I'm sure most readers will know, the dark web is a part of the internet where websites are not indexed by search engines and can only be accessed if ... | |||
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2018-02-06 09:54:39 | Cyber Readiness Report a Reminder of Financial Services Firms\' Complex Security Needs (lien direct) | >Today Hiscox publishes its Cyber Readiness Report, surveying how prepared major institutions are to face cyber-attacks. Last year the report found many businesses underprepared for cybersecurity threats. The need for financial institutions to be prepared against cyberattacks is doubly pressing this year, following a raft of new regulations. These have shifted the mandate from one ... | |||
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2018-02-06 09:52:11 | Regulation within crypto currency markets (lien direct) | >According to Reuters: “Japan's financial regulator said on Friday it had ordered all cyrptocurrency exchanges to submit a report on their system risk management, following the hacking of over half a billion dollars of digital money from Coincheck.†Whilst the whole premise of blockchain technology and crypto currencies revolves around it being essentially unhackable, the ... | |||
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2018-02-05 15:00:02 | Defending our public services from the DDoS of Things (lien direct) | >It has been described by the government as “the second digital revolution†and received £32m in funding to promote its benefits and development across the UK, so it's no surprise that the Internet of Things (IoT) is high on the public sector agenda. And it's growing: it's predicted that by 2020 there will be an ... |
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