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It’s safe to say that the internet of things (IoT) is mature enough that it’s on everyone’s radar by now. The IoT as we know it has been around for more than a decade, but it wasn’t until about five years ago that organizations started integrating the IoT as a core component of their enterprise…
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Manufacturing has been one of the biggest and earliest adopters of robotics innovations in the last several years, but with that early movement has also come entrenchment: the industry is rife with expensive, oversized machines that often run on proprietary operating systems, making them hard to upgrade and use in consort with other robots.
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Opportunistic actors are seeking to turn a quick profit from the tragic events last week in Christchurch, New Zealand, by engaging in online scams or by spreading malware embedded in content related to the gruesome attack.
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A leaky database, which is connected to an internet-facing server, exposed personal information of over 800,000 blood donors in Singapore. According to the Health Sciences Authority (HSA), the database was exposed to the Internet for nine weeks starting in January 2019. The incident was discovered by a cybersecurity expert and alerted Singapore’s Personal Data Protection…
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Visibility, intelligence, automation – three reasons to expand machine identity protection
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Reputation equals revenue: Why data security and compliance are crucial for ambitious tech companies
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On 2 April, Google+ will cease to exist for external users. The search giant has cited two main reasons for the move: low user engagement and, more insidiously, software design flaws that allowed “third-party app developers to access the data not just of users who had granted permission, but of their friends”. In October 2018, Google revealed it…
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Winning against an asymmetric cyberattack first requires we recognize an attack is occurring
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Facebook released new figures about its attempts to stop the spread of videos after a shooter livestreamed his attacks on two Christchurch, New Zealand mosques last Friday, killing 50 people.
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Information security specialists at Pen Test Partners have hijacked a car — using its alarm. What is more, the security systems that the researchers hacked — Pandora and Viper SmartStart — are widely used: Researchers estimate that about 3 million cars have them installed.
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==========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3906-2March 18, 2019
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: Security researchers have spotted a new variant of the Mirai IoT malware in the wild targeting two new classes of devices — smart signage TVs and wireless presentation systems. This new strain is being used by a new IoT botnet that security researchers from Palo Alto Networks…
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The world’s largest scientific publisher, Elsevier, left a server open to the public internet, exposing user email addresses and passwords. “The impacted users include people from universities and educational institutions from across the world,” reports Motherboard. “It’s not entirely clear how long the server was exposed or how many accounts were impacted, but it provided…
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On March 18, Secretary Kirstjen M. Nielsen delivered the 2019 State of Homeland Security Address, hosted by the Auburn University McCray Institute for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security and George Washington University.
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I received a couple of questions regarding Wireshark and Npcap.
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Hacking has always been a problem for businesses and governments around the world. They have tried to upset the balance and induce fear amongst people while, simultaneously, trying to either get rich or win loyalty.
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Exploitation Level: Easy / Remote DREAD Score: 6.6 Vulnerability: Arbitrary Directory Deletion Patched Version: 0.8.9.1 The WP-Fastest-Cache plugin authors released a new update, version 0.8.9.1, fixing a vulnerability (CVE-2019-6726) present during its install alongside the WP-PostRatings plugin. According to seclists.org: “A successful attack allows an unauthenticated attacker to specify a path to a directory from…
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Still Using SHA-1 for Internal Certificates? It’s Almost Too Late to UpdatekdobieskiMon, 03/18/2019 – 07:54
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Written by Sean LyngaasMar 18, 2019 | CYBERSCOOP A new variant of the infamous Mirai botnet is targeting embedded devices like routers and internet-connected cameras with new exploits, security researchers have concluded.
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Cybercriminals are leveraging Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) for password-spray attacks to compromise cloud-based accounts according to Proofpoint.
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Written by Sean LyngaasMar 18, 2019 | CYBERSCOOP Cybercriminals defrauded two defense contractors and a university out of more than $150,000 through email scams last year, the FBI has warned companies.