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Credit to Author: Maor Schwartz| Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 08:34:07 +0000
Hi everyone, We have decided this year to not only sponsor VXCON, but also to have a IoT hacking-village! Will let you win prizes and show your skills in hacking network based devices. We have selected 7 devices for you to try and hack. The goal of the event is to find who is able … Continue reading Hack2Win – VXCON Hong-Kong
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Credit to Author: Xiaopeng Zhang| Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 14:14:13 -0700
In every country and region in the world, tax season is also a time when we see a spike in scams, phishing, and targeted malware. The tax return season in the US is coming to the end. Have you filed your tax return yet? Did you receive any notifications from the IRS (the Internal Revenue Service) in your email? We did, but not from the real IRS. (Remember, the IRS never communicates important information with taxpayers by email.) FortiGuard Labs recently collected a number of malware samples related to the current tax season in the US….
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Credit to Author: DealPost Team| Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 10:31:00 -0700
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Credit to Author: Jeffrey Esposito| Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 15:36:24 +0000
Burger King exploits IoT Google Home in latest commercial.
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Credit to Author: Robert C. Covington| Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 08:39:00 -0700
President Trump, as part of his plan to roll back regulations put in place by President Obama, just signed legislation that eliminates the prohibition against internet service providers selling customer data without their written consent. Although the original restriction had not yet taken effect, its elimination ignited a firestorm of controversy among privacy organizations, including the Electronic Privacy Information Center and the American Civil Liberties Union (which tried to no avail to get Trump to veto the legislation at the last minute).
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Credit to Author: Bill Brenner| Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 15:35:54 +0000
The following report is by SophosLabs Android specialist Chen Yu, with support from Android team members William Lee, Jagadeesh Chandraiah and Ferenc László Nagy. As the amount of Android malware grows, it follows every step of its Windows counterparts when it comes to techniques used to evade emulators used for dynamic analysis. In this blog post, we’ll show some […]
Credit to Author: Marvin the Robot| Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 13:00:51 +0000
Where are the most dangerous places to live? How about the biggest fans of e-mail — and of porn? All that and more in our annual cybersurvey.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Jon Clay| Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 12:00:02 +0000
It’s almost here – April 18, tax day in the U.S. As businesses and employees prepare their tax returns, cybercriminals are once again ramping up efforts to steal this information, and they are getting more intelligent every year. How it works Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams have been on the rise since 2016, and…