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Credit to Author: William Tsing| Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 14:00:07 +0000
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Credit to Author: Darlene Gannon| Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 06:17:18 -0800
According to IBM’s 2016 Cyber Security Intelligence Index report, cyber criminals attacked healthcare more than any other industry last year, with more than 100 million healthcare records being compromised. As the use of IoT devices continues to grow in hospitals, we talked to Roger Bailey about the risks, and how to secure these increasingly distributed healthcare environments. Q&A with Roger Bailey, Sales Engineer at Fortinet How is IoT growing in the world of healthcare? There are two sides to IoT in hospitals – the customer…
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Credit to Author: Michael Kan| Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 06:26:00 -0800
If your computer’s been hacked, Dale Drew might know something about that.
Drew is chief security officer at Level 3 Communications, a major internet backbone provider that’s routinely on the lookout for cyberattacks on the network level. The company has linked more than 150 million IP addresses to malicious activity worldwide.
That means all of those IP addresses have computers behind them that are probably involved in distributed denial-of-service attacks, email spam, or breaches of company servers, Drew said.
Hackers have managed to hijack those computers to “cause harm to the internet,” but the owners don’t always know that, Drew said.
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Credit to Author: Ed Cabrera (Chief Cybersecurity Officer)| Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 13:00:21 +0000
Healthcare organizations (HCOs) around the world are under attack. The data they store and process has become a valuable commodity on the cybercriminal underground and has even been linked to nation state attacks. In 2015, more than 113 million records were stolen in the U.S. alone, according to the Department of Health and Human Services….
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 13:00:56 +0000
NIST has been warning about vulnerabilities in its SHA-1 cryptographic hash function for years, but some services still use it and the threats are growing. The post A Super-Common Crypto Tool Turns Out to Be Super-Insecure appeared first on WIRED.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 12:00:49 +0000
Google subsidiary Jigsaw is now offering developers access to an API for its AI-based detector for abusive comments. The post Now Anyone Can Deploy Google’s Troll-Fighting AI appeared first on WIRED.
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Credit to Author: Michael Kan| Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 03:40:00 -0800
The seemingly harmless blinking lights on servers and desktop PCs may give away secrets if a hacker can hijack them with malware.
Researchers in Israel have come up with an innovative hack that turns a computer’s LED light into a signaling system that shows passwords and other sensitive data.
The researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev demonstrated the hack in a YouTube video posted Wednesday. It shows a hacked computer broadcasting the data through a computer’s LED light, with a drone flying nearby reading the pattern.
The researchers designed the scheme to underscore vulnerabilities of air-gapped systems, or computers that have been intentionally disconnected from the internet.
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Credit to Author: Bahare Sabouri and He Xu| Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 16:58:28 -0800
Introduction Dyzap belongs to a family of malware designed to steal confidential information from enormous target applications by installing a “man in the browser” attack into common browsers. FortiGuard Researchers recently discovered a new variant of this Trojan virus. Stolen information may include, but is not limited to, system information and application credentials stored on infected systems. In this blog, we will explain how the malware steals user accounts, acts as a keylogger, and communicates with its C&C server. Stealing…
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