Homeland Security Advisor Tom Bossert penned an op-ed Monday publicly attributing the attack, which took out systems around the world, to North Korea. The White House has officially attributed the WannaCry ransomware attack to hackers in North Korea, according to an op-ed by Homeland Security Advisor Tom Bossert published in …
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New Black Hat Research suggests that a major breach on US infrastructure could be imminent, and government agencies won’t be able to react appropriately. A “major breach” of the US government’s critical infrastructure is coming, sometime in the next two years, and defense agencies won’t be able to stop it. …
A new exploit, reported by McAfee, uses trick Microsoft office files to install malware on a user’s machine and can bypass existing protection methods. Microsoft Office users beware: A new exploit is using fake versions of Office files—like Word documents—to install malware on a victim’s computer. Read more from Tech …
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The hottest trend in cyberattacks is an archaic and simplistic hacker tool. Propelled by the rise of IoT, the popularity of denial-of-service attacks rebounded in late 2016 and early 2017. Accompanying the rapid acceleration of the IoT and connected device market, warn cybersecurity experts, will be a zombie botnet swarm …
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Almost three million Android phones, many of them used by people in the US, are vulnerable to code-execution attacks that remotely seize full control of the devices, researchers said Thursday. Until recently, the flaw could have been exploited by anyone who took the time to obtain two Internet domains that …
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A new report from Check Point claims that the average day in an enterprise organization is rife with malware and malicious applications. A new report, released by security company Check Point on Tuesday, claims that some form of known malware is downloaded every 81 seconds in an enterprise organization. The …
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Browsing the web used to be hard to do and almost taboo with the likes of Prodigy and then AOL via a dial up modem. Computers were not found in every home and cell phones were bigger than the average lunchbox, when people used lunchboxes. However now the internet is …
More details have emerged about the need for the iOS 9.3.5 patch, which looks to have terminated a trio of exploits capable of a remote jailbreak and mass exfiltration of data from a target’s iPhone, including device and account passwords. Read more from Apple Insider…
Microsoft Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint are getting intelligent updates to help improve productivity and performance with the addition of machine learning and natural language processing. On Tuesday, Microsoft announced that it was updating a host of its Office 365 applications with cloud-based intelligent services that it says will “save you …
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It can happen to any of us, and at this rate, it will: Massive collections of passwords from various online services are being posted online (the dark web, mostly) at an alarming rate. Due to a possibly related string of megabreaches, over 640 million passwords have been compromised. Read more …
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