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Credit to Author: John Welton| Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 07:11:12 -0700
We recently talked with Ladi Adefala to get a better understanding of how the dark, mysterious underground of cyber crime is helping to fuel this growth, and how it impacts businesses and individuals.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Robin Washington| Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 11:00:25 +0000
Even amid controversy over effectiveness and dangers, the spring-loaded electrified Taser remains pretty much the only option. The post The Eternal Search for a Gun That Doesn’t Kill appeared first on WIRED.
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Credit to Author: Evan Schuman| Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 04:00:00 -0700
With so many retailers being impacted by cyber attacks, it’s easy to conclude that thieves are necessary for data breaches. Not necessarily. Saks last week made clear that it can breach itself quite efficiently.
That revelation comes courtesy of Buzzfeed News, which visited the site and noticed private data about quite a few fellow site visitors and shoppers.
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Credit to Author: John Ribeiro| Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 03:26:00 -0700
A senior U.K. official is asking that law enforcement be given access to encrypted messages on WhatsApp and similar services, a demand that is likely to fuel an ongoing debate over whether companies should create backdoors into their encryption technologies for investigators.
Khalid Masood, the terrorist who killed four people outside Parliament on Wednesday, had sent a message on WhatsApp shortly before the attack, according to reports.
“We need to make sure that organizations like WhatsApp, and there are plenty of others like that, don’t provide a secret place for terrorists to communicate with each other,” Home Secretary Amber Rudd said on BBC One’s Andrew Marr Show on Sunday.
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Credit to Author: Jonathan Lee| Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 10:28:12 +0000
In the UK we have recently seen lots of headlines about cyber security and incidents at various NHS organisations, which have had varying impacts on day to day operations. Some of this information has been accurate, but a great deal of it has not – often because it takes time for the full facts of […]
Credit to Author: Maor Schwartz| Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2017 13:14:58 +0000
Vulnerability Summary The following advisory describes a account takeover vulnerability found in OpenCart (version 2.3.0.2). OpenCart is a opensource e-commerce platform written in PHP. “Opencart is an easy to-use, powerful, Open Source online store management program that can manage multiple online stores from a single back-end.” Credit An independent security researcher “Ayrx” has reported this … Continue reading SSD Advisory – OpenCart Account Takeover
Read MoreCredit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2017 11:00:55 +0000
Hackers claim that they’ll wipe out hundreds of millions of iCloud accounts on April 7. Apple says there’s no breach. Here’s what to do in the meantime. The post How to Protect Your iCloud Account, Juuust in Case Those Hackers Aren’t Joking appeared first on WIRED.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2017 11:00:36 +0000
Each weekend we round up the news stories that we didn’t break or cover in depth but that still deserve your attention. The post Security News This Week: FedEx Offered Customers Five Bucks to Re-Install Flash appeared first on WIRED.
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