A new exploit is taking advantage of the on-going open port problem that plague many IoT devices by using TCP port 5555 to spread the Satori variant of the Mirai botnet.
Summer will be over before you know it and for many of you, it might be time to hit the road again for business travel. Before you pack up all of your devices, you might want to keep some of this advice in mind to ensure your data is secure.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued a revised draft and a call for public comment for Special Publication 800-163 Vetting the Security of Mobile Applications that is designed to give organizations basic guidance on app security.
An apparent botnet comprised of more than 3,000 separate source IPs generated a large, sudden spike in exploit attacks on July 19, targeting D-Link 2750B and certain Dasan GPON (Gigabit Passive Optical Network) small and home office routers.
The company has paid a $1.4 billion fine, $400 million of which goes into escrow at a U.S. bank, and changed its management and board to meet terms laid out by the U.S.
The Ukrainian Secret Service is blaming Russian intelligence for an attack it blocked that was launched upon a chlorine distillation plan in the Dnipropetrovsk region using VPNFilter malware.
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