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DefCon: You cannot 'cyberhijack' an airplane, but you can still create mischief

Threat Management

Bots on a plane? Bad bots cause unique cybersecurity issues for airlines

Robert AbelNovember 14, 2018

This data-highjacking trojan that targets U.S. users as part of an international campaign that includes Austria, Switzerland, and Belgium. Primarily spread via phishing emails, the malware lies dormant on victims machines for 15 minutes before communicating with its C&C server.

Threat Management

Researchers demo how machine learning can be used to track Gh0st RAT variants

Robert AbelNovember 13, 2018

Like Target, 92 percent of all U.S. companies have suffered a breach as a result of a weakness in the supply chain. stolen from the retail giant as a result of point-of-sale malware. Considered one of the biggest retail breaches in history, the Minneapolis-based company expects the incident to cost it $148 million.

Application security

Bitcoin scammers impersonate Elon Musk, hack Target’s Twitter account

Robert AbelNovember 13, 2018

A join study from IDC and the National University of Singapore indicates that enterprises around the globe will spend around $500 billion in 2014 on making fixes and recovering from data breaches and malware.

Companies, customers will avoid you after a breach, survey says

Robert AbelNovember 9, 2018

Threat Management

Oracle’s VirtualBox vulnerability leaked by disgruntled researcher

Robert AbelNovember 7, 2018

Threat Management

New ransomware spotted using DiskCryptor

Robert AbelNovember 5, 2018

Noting that consumers are being asked to provide more information than ever before and are less protected, the National Consumers League has proposed reforms. Read more

Wealthy Moscow residents’ data leaked in Akado Telecom incident

Robert AbelNovember 5, 2018

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