Yearly Archives: 2017

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Avast urges devs to secure toolchains after hacked build box led to CCleaner disaster

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Credits: TheRegister

VB2017 Avast staffers spoke at the Virus Bulletin International Conference in Madrid, Spain, on Thursday to shed more light on their postmortem of the CCleaner fiasco – and urge developers to protect their software’s toolchain and distribution systems from hackers.

The widely used utility, which removes […]

By |October 6th, 2017|Cyber News|

THE NSA OFFICIALLY HAS A ROGUE CONTRACTOR PROBLEM

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Credits: Wired

THE NSA IS one of the world’s most notoriously secretive and powerful government agencies, guarding its powerful hacking tools and massive caches of collected data under layers of security clearances and world-class technical protections. But it turns out that three times […]

By |October 6th, 2017|Cyber News|

Is drive-by sex toy hacking a wake-up call for Britain’s internet security?

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Credits: TheGuardian

Hacking tends to bring to mind compromised bank accounts or infiltrated government security systems, not anything as salacious as a dildo. But yesterday, the scientist Ben Goldacre alerted me to the practice of “screwdriving” – short-distance sex-toy hacking.

It might sound far-fetched, […]

By |October 6th, 2017|Cyber News|

Nepal Police plans to set up cyber bureau

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Credits: TheHimalayanTimes

Over 58 government websites, including those of Department of Passports and Nepal Law Commission, were hacked in the past one year.

The frequent cyber-attacks show how vulnerable the country’s cyberspace is. In 2016, Metropolitan Police Crime Division arrested Bikash Paudel of […]

By |October 6th, 2017|Cyber News|

Israeli Army Combating a New Kind of Cyber Threat

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Credits: ABC NEWS

The dry statistics are not encouraging: Fewer than 72 percent of the males born in 1999, who are now of draft age, are actually subject to the draft. Of those exempt from the draft, 14.7 percent are yeshiva students. […]

By |October 6th, 2017|Cyber News|

Downloading an app? Don’t take that risk without enough precaution

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Credits: IndiaTimes

Popular apps on your smartphones can be fun and engaging but they may contain malicious software, or malware, which can give hackers access to your data. Incidents of phones getting hacked and hackers exploiting personal data of users are not […]

By |October 6th, 2017|Cyber News|

Greek court clears U.S. extradition of Russian bitcoin fraud suspect

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Credits: Reuters

A Greek court cleared the way on Wednesday for the extradition to the United States of a Russian, also wanted by Moscow, suspected of laundering billions of dollars in digital currency bitcoin.

Alexander Vinnik, the alleged mastermind of a $4 billion […]

By |October 5th, 2017|Cyber News|

Dnsmasq and the seven flaws: Patch these nasty remote-control holes

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Credits: Theregister

Google security engineers have spotted not one, not two, but seven serious flaws in Dnsmasq, a fairly widely used DNS forwarder and DHCP server.

This open-source program is present in a lot of home routers and certain Internet of Things gadgets, and included […]

By |October 5th, 2017|Cyber News|

State-sponsored hackers turn on each other

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Credits: zdnet

Researchers have revealed that nation-state hacking groups are not only dedicated to striking targets issued to them, but also to fighting each other.

On Wednesday, Kaspersky Labs researchers presented their findings at the Virus Bulletin conference in Woburn, MA, claiming that sophisticated threat actors […]

By |October 5th, 2017|Cyber News|

NATO troops say Russia is hacking their smartphones

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Credits: ABC NEWS

Russia is hacking into the smartphones of NATO troops — including US troops — in an effort to get more information about the plans of the alliance. It’s the latest example of Russia’s increasingly confrontational stance against the West.

The […]

By |October 5th, 2017|Cyber News|