Latest hacking information from the underworld
Uber reportedly paid a hacker from Florida $100,000 under the guise of a bug bounty program to keep quiet about a data breach which exposed information belonging to 57 million users. According to three unnamed sources, as reported by Reuters, a 20-year-old was responsible for the catastrophic data breach, rather than a sophisticated group or […]
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A new survey by LNS Research on behalf of Honeywell shows that industrial sector networks are still playing catch-up in cybersecurity. While more than half of the 130 decision-makers from industrial organizations in the survey say they work in a facility that has suffered a breach, just 37% of the respondents say their organizations monitor
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Technically, Cockcroft’s is not a security architecture. But that’s not really the point: For decades, we’ve heard pleas that developers build information systems that are failure resistant and fault tolerant. The Netflix microservices model is the most successful effort to date at answering these pleas. AT&T engineers have spoken of it in awe. Microservices seeks
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BlackBerry on Wednesday laid out a recommended framework for automakers to address the cybersecurity challenges surrounding connected and autonomous vehicles. BlackBerry sees four industry trends that are making vehicles vulnerable to cyber attacks and failures: vehicles access, software control, autonomous driving, and the changing state of software. In its whitepaper, BlackBerry recommended changes through a
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A new ransomware family is using the SambaCry vulnerability that was patched in May to infect network-attached storage (NAS) devices, researchers have discovered. Dubbed StorageCrypt, the ransomware demands between 0.4 and 2 Bitcoins ($5,000 to $25,000) from its victims for decrypting the affected files. To infect NAS devices, StorageCrypt abuses the Linux Samba vulnerability known
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A North Carolina county says it won’t pay a hacker ransom to unlock data on county servers frozen by malicious software. Mecklenburg County Manager Dena Diorio announced late Wednesday that the county has decided not to pay the more than $23,000 demanded by cybercriminals to unlock the data. Diorio said that the county has backup
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On Wednesday, in a presentation at Black Hat Europe, Positive Technologies security researchers Mark Ermolov and Maxim Goryachy plan to explain the firmware flaws they found in Intel Management Engine 11, along with a warning that vendor patches for the vulnerability may not be enough. Read more
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Black Hat Cyber threats have evolved from been a solely technical issues to core issues of government policy, according to a senior US lawyer and former cyber diplomat. Chris Painter, former co-ordinator for cyber issues at the US State Department, told delegates at the Black Hat EU conference that cyber issues have emerged as a
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Security researchers from Check Point have found an easily-exploitable vulnerability called ParseDroid that could affect the millions of users of integrated development environments such as Intellij, Eclipse and Android Studio. The vulnerability could enable attackers to steal files and execute malicious code on vulnerable systems remotely. Read more
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The cryptocurrency mining service NiceHash has been hacked, its team said today. It seems that they have lost over 4000+ BTC (about $62 Million), NiceHash said on its official Facebook that there has been a security breach involving NiceHash website and the payment system. Read more
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