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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 09 May 2017 12:00:44 +0000
Security researchers have warned about SS7 for years. Now that hackers have used it to rob banks, here’s how telecoms can finally fix it. The post Fixing the Cell Network Flaw That Lets Hackers Drain Bank Accounts appeared first on WIRED.
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Credit to Author: Sharon Gaudin| Date: Tue, 09 May 2017 03:00:00 -0700
Industrial robots used in factories and warehouses that are connected to the internet are not secure, leaving companies open to cyberattacks and costly damages.
That’s the word coming from a study conducted by global security software company Trend Micro and Polytechnic University of Milan, the largest technical university in Italy.
“The industrial robot – it’s not ready for the world it’s living in,” said Mark Nunnikhoven, vice president of cloud research at Trend Micro. “The reality is these things are being connected in more and more places. There are a lot of attacks that could happen in that environment.”
The study looked at Internet security vulnerabilities that could involve industrial robots used on manufacturing lines in areas such as the automobile and aerospace industries. The robots, which generally look like large mechanical arms, are used to move heavy objects, weld seams and fit pieces together. The machines also can be found moving and stacking crates in warehouses.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Mon, 08 May 2017 17:33:53 +0000
There are clues that the Kremlin hacked the French presidential candidate. But not yet enough to draw a conclusion. The post Don’t Pin the Macron Email Hack on Russia Just Yet appeared first on WIRED.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Jon Clay| Date: Mon, 08 May 2017 18:13:50 +0000
In April 2017 my monthly threat webinar focused on a cyberespionage group our Forward-Looking Threat Researcher, Feike Hacquebord, has been following for many years and recently published a report into the most recent two years of activities. In this post I want to focus on their tools and tactics versus who they target since this…
Credit to Author: Darlene Storm| Date: Mon, 08 May 2017 09:33:00 -0700
Location, location, location … you’ve heard it many times before but not when it comes to a ransomware deciding a ransom amount. Fatboy, a ransomware-as-a-service, is believed to be the first ransomware that automatically adjusts the ransom amount based on a victim’s location.
Just when you think you’ve heard every conceivable ransomware demand – not just ransoms paid in bitcoins or other cryptocurrencies like Monero, or paid in iTunes or Amazon gift cards, ransomware which costs nothing for decryption as long as you infect two other people, or even ransomware that demands a high score on a shooter game before decrypting drives – now there’s a ransomware that charges victims based on the Big Mac Index.
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Credit to Author: Jeremy Hsu| Date: Mon, 08 May 2017 15:00:21 +0000
The US Marines have been testing disposable drones that can deliver battlefield supplies without risking lives The post Disposable Drones Could Deliver Supplies Under Enemy Fire appeared first on WIRED.
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Credit to Author: Lucian Constantin| Date: Mon, 08 May 2017 08:04:00 -0700
Hackers compromised a download server for HandBrake, a popular open-source program for converting video files, and used it to distribute a macOS version of the application that contained malware.
The HandBrake development team posted a security warning on the project’s website and support forum on Saturday, alerting Mac users who downloaded and installed the program from May 2 to May 6 to check their computers for malware.
The attackers compromised only a download mirror hosted under download.handbrake.fr, with the primary download server remaining unaffected. Because of this, users who downloaded HandBrake-1.0.7.dmg during the period in question have a 50/50 chance of having received a malicious version of the file, the HandBreak team said.
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Credit to Author: Justin Foster| Date: Mon, 08 May 2017 12:00:42 +0000
Throughout the history of cloud computing, 2006 was a momentous year. In 2006 Amazon Web Services released S3, the first pay per GB storage service. By August, they released EC2, allowing you to spin up a server and pay by the hour in the cloud. In the decade that has followed, AWS has emerged as…