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Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 15:48:54 +0000
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The post Canada and the U.K. hit by Ramnit Trojan in new malvertising campaign appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
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Credit to Author: Susan Biddle| Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 08:21:27 -0700
More than any other database containing sensitive information for a large quantity of people, electronic health records (EHRs) are an especially attractive target for hackers. The patient data they hold can be used for financial gain, as recent reports show that stolen healthcare databases are being sold on the deep web for as much as US$500,000. But we’ve also seen a number of instances where large data breaches have occurred at the hands of state actors looking to collect data for espionage purposes. No matter the reasoning behind…
Read MoreCredit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 11:00:35 +0000
Google and Jigsaw are helping protect elections from DDoS attacks and more. The post A Cybersecurity Arsenal That’ll Help ‘Protect Your Election’ appeared first on WIRED.
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Credit to Author: John Ribeiro| Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 05:02:00 -0700
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has ordered that passengers on flights departing for the U.S from 10 airports in the Middle East and Africa will have to carry personal electronics larger than a smartphone as checked baggage, citing increased terror threats.
Giving the approximate size of a commonly available smartphone as a guideline for passengers, the DHS said that laptops, tablets, e-readers, cameras, portable DVD players, electronic game units larger than smartphones, and travel printers or scanners were the kind of personal electronics that would not be allowed in the cabin and would have to be carried as checked baggage.
Approved medical devices may be brought into the cabin after additional screening. The size of smartphones is well understood by most passengers who fly internationally, according to the DHS, which in any case asked passengers to check with their airline if they are unsure whether their smartphone is impacted.
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Credit to Author: Garrett M. Graff| Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 10:00:31 +0000
A mysterious cybercriminal deployed an invincible botnet to steal a fortune from US banks. Then the FBI discovered what else he was after. The post Inside the Hunt for Russia’s Most Notorious Hacker appeared first on WIRED.
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Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 17:26:00 -0700
Mozilla last week patched a Firefox vulnerability just a day after it was revealed during Pwn2Own, the first vendor to fix a flaw disclosed at the hacking contest.
“Congrats to #Mozilla for being the first vendor to patch vuln[erability] disclosed during #Pwn2Own,” tweeted the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) Monday. ZDI, the bug brokerage run by Trend Micro, sponsored Pwn2Own.
Mozilla released Firefox 52.0.1 on Friday, March 17, with a patch for the integer overflow bug that Chaitin Security Research Lab leveraged in an exploit at Pwn2Own on Thursday, March 16. The Beijing-based group was awarded $30,000 by ZDI for the exploit, which combined the Firefox bug with one in the Windows kernel.
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Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 22:02:31 +0000
After FBI Director James Comey confirmed an investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia, the GOP focused instead on leaks. The post Russia? Nah. The House GOP Goes After Leakers Instead appeared first on WIRED.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 21:59:38 +0000
Let’s take a closer look at what cyber threats could impact your business and how to protect yourself against them.