Cyber security is one of the direst threats facing modern businesses today. Global cyber-crime damages are set to exceed $6 trillion each year by 2021. Despite the growing threat of cyber-attacks, more than half of businesses that suffered an attack didn’t anticipate any changes to their security measures for next year. Increasing cyber-attacks will help triple the number of unfilled cyber-security […]
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Selected losses greater than 30,000 records (updated 10th Sep 2017) Original Link
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The company says evidence of “unauthorized access” has appeared during a recent investigation. PayPal’s recently-acquired payment processor TIO Networks has revealed that up to 1.6 million customers have had their information stolen in a recent data breach. Last week, the Vancouver, Canada-based TIO Networks said that following the suspension of operations, evidence has been uncovered […]
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A major bug in Apple’s macOS gives anyone with physical access to a computer running the latest version of the High Sierra operating system admin access simply by putting “root” in the user name field. The bug was publicized Tuesday by developer Lemi Orhan Ergin, founder of Software Craftsmanship Turkey, via Twitter. His tweet he […]
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Qihoo 360 Netlab researchers reported on Friday that they are tracking an uptick in botnet activity associated with a variant of Mirai. Targeted are ports 23 and 2323 on internet-connected devices made by ZyXEL Communications that are using default admin/CentryL1nk and admin/QwestM0dem telnet credentials. “About 60 hours ago, since 2017-11-22 11:00, we noticed big upticks on […]
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Do you need to get a Wi-Fi password but don’t have the time to crack it? In previous tutorials, I have shown how to crack WEP, WPA2, and WPS, but some people have complained that cracking WPA2 takes too long and that not all access points have WPS enabled (even though quite a few do). To help out in […]
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Apple’s Face ID technology, the centerpiece biometric authentication mechanism for the iPhone X, has been cracked a little more than a week after it was introduced to the public. Researchers from Vietnamese security company Bkav demonstrated that they could fool the technology to unlock the phone with a mask constructed with a 3D printer, some silicone, […]
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A new Wi-Fi attack tool has been made available on GitHub that automates phishing attacks over WPA networks, putting credentials and other supposedly secret data at risk. The tool, called wifiphisher, jams Wi-Fi access points with deauthentication packets and then mimics the target access point before presenting the wireless device with a phony WPA log-in page. […]
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A nine-year-old critical vulnerability has been discovered in virtually all versions of the Linux operating system and is actively being exploited in the wild. Dubbed “Dirty COW,” the Linux kernel security flaw (CVE-2016-5195) is a mere privilege-escalation vulnerability, but researchers are taking it extremely seriously due to many reasons.First, it’s very easy to develop exploits […]
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A 5-year-old serious privilege-escalation vulnerability has been discovered in Linux kernel that affects almost every distro of the Linux operating system, including Redhat, and Ubuntu. Over a month back, a nine-year-old privilege-escalation vulnerability, dubbed “Dirty COW,” was discovered in the Linux kernel that affected every distro of the open-source operating system, including Red Hat, Debian, […]
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