Easier with a crowbar: hacking IoT accessories for cars
Credit to Author: Leonid Grustniy| Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 20:22:08 +0000
Our experts tried to hack six smart gadgets for cars to find out how manufacturers protect customers.
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The ISA Global Cybersecurity Alliance: Heeding the Need for Collaboration; Acting as Agents of Change
Credit to Author: Andrew Kling| Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 14:45:40 +0000
In January 2018, on the heels of the well-publicized but often misunderstood Triton cyber-attack, Schneider Electric made a strategic decision. Two actually. First, because the attack methodology presented new and… Read more »
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Read MoreHow to Get Your Equifax Settlement Money
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 17:09:06 +0000
A settlement with the FTC means Equifax will pay victims of its breach $125 or more. Make sure they pay up.
Read MoreGood Twitter Samaritans accidentally prevent shoeshine scam
Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 16:45:12 +0000
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| We take a look at how a shoeshine scam nearly took place in real life—until people online trying to help in one way, ended up assisting in quite another. Categories: Tags: indiascamshoe shinesocial mediatraveltravellingtwitter |
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Read MoreWindows Server 2008 End of Support: Are you Prepared?
Credit to Author: Pawan Kinger (Director, Deep Security Labs)| Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 13:42:36 +0000
On July 14th, 2015, Microsoft’s widely deployed Windows Server 2003 reached end of life after nearly 12 years of support. For millions of enterprise servers, this meant the end of security updates, leaving the door open to serious security risks. Now, we are fast approaching the end of life of another server operating system –…
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Read MoreThis Week in Security News: Unpatched Systems and Lateral Phishing
Credit to Author: Jon Clay (Global Threat Communications)| Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 12:57:24 +0000
Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about an attack against Elasticsearch that delivers backdoors as its payload. Additionally, read how cybercriminals are turning to hijacked accounts to perform lateral phishing attacks on…
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Read MoreZegost from Within – New Campaign Targeting Internal Interests
FortiGuard Labs has released a new playbook on the threat actor group named Yet Another Panda. Learn more about a recent spear phishing email campaign containing the Zegost info stealer malware.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/fortinet/blog/threat-research/~4/49hGDVcEPgo” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
Mozilla blames 'interlocking complex systems' and confusion for Firefox's May add-on outage
Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 03:00:00 -0700
Mozilla has issued multiple after-action reports analyzing the major mix-up in May that crippled most Firefox add-ons. The reports also made recommendations for preventing similar incidents in the future.
The fiasco started just after 8 p.m. ET on Friday, May 3, when a certificate used to digitally sign Firefox extensions expired. Because Mozilla had neglected to renew the certificate, Firefox assumed add-ons could not be trusted – that they were potentially malicious – and disabled any already installed. Add-ons could not be added to the browser for the same reason.