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2018-02-20 15:19:00 | Cybercrime weighs most heavily on financial service firms (lien direct) | A further breakdown of the overall figures shows that, in all, the actual cost hinges on a number of variables. The factors that enter heavily into the equation include attack types and their frequency, along with the organization's size and even the country in which an organization is based. | |||
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2018-02-19 15:22:02 | Millions bagged in two bank cyber-heists (lien direct) | This hack is said to be reminiscent of a particularly brazen bank cyber-heist from February 2016, in which hackers successfully pilfered $81 million from the account of the central bank of Bangladesh at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. | |||
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2018-02-16 14:17:04 | US forms dedicated office to help avert cyberattacks at infrastructure (lien direct) | The vulnerability of critical infrastructure, including energy grids, to cyberattacks has been a growing concern worldwide. Many nations have been scrambling to improve their defenses vis-à-vis threats faced by services that are critical to the continuity of our daily lives. | |||
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2018-02-15 13:47:05 | Concerns about data breaches hitting all-time high (lien direct) | A record-high proportion of organizations worldwide (67%) said that they had been breached at some point, up from 56% in the report's previous edition. | |||
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2018-02-15 10:00:04 | Android ransomware in 2017: Innovative infiltration and rougher extortion (lien direct) | Ransomware in 2017 saw users and businesses across the globe trying to cope with campaigns such as Petya and WannaCryptor. Not to be outdone, Android ransomware had a year full of innovative infiltration and rougher extortion as highlighted by the latest ESET research whitepaper. | Wannacry | ||
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2018-02-14 14:30:05 | Patch now! Microsoft fixes over 50 serious security flaws (lien direct) | This week saw the second Tuesday of the month, and everyone who is responsible for protecting Windows computers knows what that means: another bundle of security patches have been released by Microsoft. | |||
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2018-02-14 12:58:01 | How safe are you around your smart TV? (lien direct) | Smart TVs afford us the opportunity to use them for purposes that are more commonly associated with computers. In fact, that's what these TVs have become – internet-connected 'computers', much like mobile phones. It would no doubt help if we thought of them as such and treated them accordingly. | |||
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2018-02-13 12:56:02 | Blockchain Hardened devices: Can they restore privacy with security by design? (lien direct) | These developments show that security technology is now keeping up, or outpacing other technological and regulatory developments. Thus, while users' wants often continue to trump their appreciation of risk, the industry has responded and in many cases gotten ahead of popular demand. | |||
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2018-02-12 14:49:00 | US and UK government websites hijacked to mine cryptocurrency on visitors\' machines (lien direct) | If undetected by a user's security solution or content- or ad-blocker, the script ran in the background unbeknown to the user until the webpage was closed. A number of the affected websites, including that of the ICO, were also offline for hours in the aftermath of the attack. | |||
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2018-02-12 10:51:04 | All HTTP websites to soon be marked as “not secure” by Google Chrome (lien direct) | If you're still running a website that is still using insecure HTTP then it's time to wake up and drink the coffee. Because unless you take action soon, you're going to find many of your visitors are going to distrust your website. | |||
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2018-02-09 10:04:08 | How will WPA3 improve WiFi security? (lien direct) | This is aimed at improving security at the time of the handshake, which is when the key is being exchanged. As a result, WPA3 is poised to provide robust security even if short or weak passwords are used, i.e. those that don't contain a combination of letters, numbers and symbols. | |||
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2018-02-08 14:42:23 | Global cybercrime behemoth busted, 36 people indicted (lien direct) | According to US authorities, the enterprise aimed at becoming the premier destination for the buying and selling of stolen payment card data and forged identification documents. It is believed that the losses that the Infraud Organization had intended to cause were north of $2.2 billion. | |||
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2018-02-07 14:19:08 | UK-led police operation quashes Luminosity Link RAT (lien direct) | The investigation showed that the tool, which required little technical knowledge to deploy, had over 8,600 users in 78 countries. Victims are believed to be in the thousands. | |||
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2018-02-06 13:11:11 | FBI warns of email scams claiming to be from Bureau (lien direct) | Another template attempts to scare, rather than thrill, the recipients. Upon learning that “your IP address and other identifying information were used to commit multiple online crimesâ€, the mark is urged to contact the sender by phone immediately. | |||
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2018-02-06 10:56:11 | Think you have a tracker on your phone? Learn how to make your device more resilient (lien direct) | While it certainly doesn't hurt to ask for help from local law enforcement, know that even major cities may not have the expertise or the bandwidth to investigate compromised mobile devices. The most important objective is to take steps to make sure you're safe. Ask for help, but do not wait for others to help you. | |||
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2018-02-05 10:07:27 | Vulnerabilities reached a historic peak in 2017 (lien direct) | In 2017, the number of vulnerabilities smashed records set in previous years. According to CVE Details, more than 14,600 vulnerabilities were reported in 2017, compared to 6447 in 2016. | |||
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2018-02-02 10:00:58 | (Déjà vu) Smart, Smarter… Dumbest… (lien direct) | While the evolution of new smartphones creates more possibilities for the user, these new devices also creates more possibilities for hackers. | |||
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2018-02-02 10:00:05 | Smart, Smarter… Dumbest… (lien direct) | While the evolution of new smartphones creates more possibilities for the user, these new devices also creates more possibilities for hackers. | |||
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2018-01-31 14:17:46 | Google smashed over 700,000 bad Android apps last year (lien direct) | Google says that it is getting better than ever at protecting Android users against bad apps and malicious developers. | |||
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2018-01-30 11:44:09 | Privacy of fitness tracking apps in the spotlight after soldiers\' exercise routes shared online (lien direct) | People exercising on far-flung military bases are being exposed by their fitness tracker. | |||
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2018-01-26 15:15:20 | Babies\' personal data hawked on dark web (lien direct) | The price puts the data records at a significant premium when compared to other stolen datasets. While, in general, many adverts in the dark recesses of the internet are fake, children's personally identifiable information (PII) has for long been viewed as a particularly valuable commodity. | |||
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2018-01-26 13:57:43 | FriedEx: BitPaymer ransomware the work of Dridex authors (lien direct) | ESET research has found that the ransomware FriedEx, also known as BitPaymer, is actually the work of the notorious gang responsible for the Dridex banking trojan. | |||
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2018-01-26 13:02:13 | Jail for man who hacked 1000 student email accounts in search for sexually explicit images (lien direct) | A poorly-secured password reset utility allowed a man to access more than 1,000 email accounts at a New York City-area university in a hunt for sexually explicit photographs and videos. | |||
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2018-01-25 14:58:00 | How well can bug hunting pay? (lien direct) | In some countries, the financial allure of looking for security vulnerabilities is (even) more striking, according to the findings of a survey released recently by bug bounty platform provider HackerOne. | |||
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2018-01-25 12:58:21 | Data Privacy vs. Data Protection: Reflections on Privacy Day and GDPR (lien direct) | Data privacy is also a topic that can spark big debates, like the one between the US and the EU as to what protections should be accorded to data pertaining to people, specifically by those who collect, control, or process such data. | |||
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2018-01-24 12:43:47 | 10 Linux distributions recommended for 2018 (lien direct) | The new features included all the patches, fixes, and updates to the tools and Kernel that were released over the preceding period, which is no small matter, especially if you use Maltego or SET. | |||
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2018-01-23 17:50:20 | ESET\'s guide makes it possible to peek into FinFisher (lien direct) | To help malware analysts and security researchers overcome FinFisher's advanced anti-disassembly obfuscation and virtualization features, ESET researchers have framed some clever tricks into a whitepaper, “ESET's guide to deobfuscating and devirtualizing FinFisherâ€. | |||
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2018-01-23 14:59:13 | South Korea moves to ban anonymous cryptocurrency trading (lien direct) | As part of the policy, underage individuals and foreigners without local bank accounts will be barred from trading in virtual currencies. Banks will be required to share information about cryptocurrency exchanges with each other. | |||
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2018-01-23 12:58:32 | Five ways to check if your router is configured securely (lien direct) | In a dynamic environment where threats continually evolve and new vulnerabilities are identified almost daily, it is necessary to use the most up-to-date security tools, since they deal with protection measures for new and ever-shifting attack vectors. | |||
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2018-01-22 14:28:14 | Up to 40,000 OnePlus customers potentially hit by credit card hack (lien direct) | The breach put at risk 'only' the customers who entered their payment data on oneplus.net between the middle of November 2017 and January 11, 2018. Those who paid with previously saved credit card details or via PayPal are believed to be out of harm's way. | |||
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2018-01-22 09:53:34 | World Economic Forum: Cyberthreats rising in prominence in global risk landscape (lien direct) | The latest survey marks a shift from optimism regarding technological risks in the previous years. The heightened levels of worry come on the back of an escalation in cybersecurity threats, which, as noted by the WEF, are growing in prevalence and in disruptive potential alike. | |||
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2018-01-19 10:00:14 | Are mobile devices insecure by nature? (lien direct) | Granted, not all that glitters is gold, and mobiles also come with some drawbacks in terms of the protection of information. There are a number of risks that users may face when trying to secure their information on mobiles and tablets. | |||
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2018-01-18 12:58:15 | CES 2018 cybersecurity: Now in every single \'whatchamacallit\' (lien direct) | Not content anymore to just have a bed made of soft plushy stuff, now you can adjust everything about the bed, from electronically sitting up in bed to the lighting surrounding your nap: connected digital technology everywhere. | |||
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2018-01-18 10:58:32 | Trends 2018: Personal data in the new age of technology and legislation (lien direct) | The depth of data collected from our online habits could easily allow profiles to be constructed, showing what may be considered extremely personal interests, drawing on information that we don't realize someone is collecting. | |||
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2018-01-17 13:15:43 | Carphone Warehouse faces hefty fine for 2015 breach (lien direct) | The attackers gained access to a range of customer data such as names, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, and marital status. Making matters worse, the historical payment card details of some 18,000 customers were also compromised. | |||
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2018-01-17 10:55:03 | CES 2018: Blockchain will solve everything (lien direct) | The first obvious candidate was banking, a sector that has been hard at work trying to implement blockchain to secure the vast troves of digital transactions that happen every microsecond of every day. | |||
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2018-01-16 12:59:05 | Scammers and jobhunters (lien direct) | It's easier to have scruples about how you earn your living when you're not one of millions of people chasing just a few thousand jobs. | |||
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2018-01-15 13:01:06 | CES 2018: Why doesn\'t everyone use VR already? (lien direct) | One side effect of slower than expected uptake of VR is that virtual reality application developers have been slow to invest in creating content. In this sort of chicken-and-egg cycle, growth tends to be slow, not explosive. | |||
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2018-01-13 02:43:23 | Fruitfly malware spied on Mac users for 13 years – man charged (lien direct) | US authorities have charged a 28-year-old Ohio man who is alleged to have created and installed creepy spyware on thousands of computers for 13 years. | |||
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2018-01-12 09:29:13 | Security event in Taiwan \'rewards\' quiz winners with malware-laden USB drives (lien direct) | The distribution of the USB sticks was halted on December 12 after some of the quiz's successful entrants reported that their rewards had been flagged by their security software as containing malware. | |||
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2018-01-11 10:22:16 | CES 2018: The price of tech is dropping, kids can do this! (lien direct) | Row after row of startup tech here has tiny modules designed to be mashed up into the next big thing if their founders have anything to say about it, and the trend continues. | |||
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2018-01-10 12:58:23 | Tank-traps versus trappings in virtual currencies: A cybersecurity minefield (lien direct) | Bitcoin, the progenitor of the entire cryptocurrency boom and still the most popular virtual currency, experienced a truly heady run-up in value. Its price surge was punctuated with a crescendo midway through December, when a single bitcoin approached $20,000. | |||
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2018-01-09 14:00:15 | ESET research: Appearances are deceiving with Turla\'s backdoor-laced Flash Player installer (lien direct) | In order to establish persistence on the system, the installer tampers with the operating system's registry. It also creates an administrative account that allows remote access. | |||
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2018-01-08 10:58:16 | MADIoT – The nightmare after XMAS (and Meltdown, and Spectre) (lien direct) | It is not feasible, in fact not even possible, to replace all CPUs in all devices. It would be too costly, besides the success rate for unsoldering and resoldering pin-throughs in multi-layer boards will never be 100%. | |||
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2018-01-05 09:14:21 | Meltdown and Spectre CPU Vulnerabilities: What You Need to Know (lien direct) | The first few days of 2018 have been filled with anxious discussions concerning a widespread and wide-ranging vulnerability in the architecture of processors based on Intel's Core architecture used in PCs for many years, and also affecting ARM processors commonly used in tablets and smartphones. | |||
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2018-01-04 12:59:36 | ESET Research: Wauchos now headed for extinction? (lien direct) | As Wauchos was sold on underground forums, there were various monetization schemes. One of them was to use the form grabber plugin to steal passwords for online accounts. | |||
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2018-01-03 10:58:24 | Now is the best time to craft your breach response (lien direct) | Taking time to think logically and deliberately about your assets can help you determine what needs to be secured. Preparing for the worst can help you see the best course of action to prevent those emergencies in the present. | |||
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2017-12-28 12:58:53 | Cybersecurity review of 2017: The year of wake-up calls – part 2 (lien direct) | Courtesy of its highly customizable nature – along with its ability to persist in the system and to provide valuable information for fine-tuning the highly configurable payloads – the malware can be adapted for attacks against any environment, making it extremely dangerous. | |||
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2017-12-27 14:49:04 | The worst passwords of the year revealed (lien direct) | Need a New Year's resolution? How about this one? Start taking password security more seriously. | |||
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2017-12-27 12:58:52 | Cybersecurity review of 2017: The year of wake-up calls – part 1 (lien direct) | Ransomware and data breaches remain major thorns in the sides of users and organizations across the world, often piercing their defenses without too much effort. |
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