Optimize Resiliency, Performance, Security and Cost Inline security tools — Web Application Firewalls (WAFs), Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) and Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) — are vital for securing your network, but can create their own problems, such as: • They represent network points of failure. • When an inline tool loses power, has a software failure or is taken off ...
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A New Cryptocurrency Mining Virus is Spreading Through Facebook
If you receive a link for a video, even if it looks exciting, sent by someone (or your friend) on Facebook messenger—just don’t click on it without taking a second thought. Cybersecurity researchers from Trend Micro are warning users of a malicious Chrome extension which is spreading through Facebook Messenger and targeting users of cryptocurrency trading platforms to steal their ...
Read More »Hackers build a ‘Master Key’ that unlocks millions of Hotel rooms
If you often leave your valuable and expensive stuff like laptop and passports in the hotel rooms, then beware. Your room can be unlocked by not only a malicious staff having access to the master key, but also by an outsider. A critical design vulnerability in a popular and widely used electronic lock system can be exploited to unlock every ...
Read More »Police Shut Down World’s Biggest ‘DDoS-for-Hire’ Service–Admins Arrested
In a major hit against international cybercriminals, the Dutch police have taken down the world’s biggest DDoS-for-hire service that helped cyber criminals launch over 4 million attacks and arrested its administrators. An operation led by the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) and the Dutch Police, dubbed “Power Off,” with the support of Europol and a dozen other law enforcement agencies, resulted in ...
Read More »Flaw in LinkedIn AutoFill Plugin Lets Third-Party Sites Steal Your Data
Not just Facebook, a new vulnerability discovered in Linkedin’s popular AutoFill functionality found leaking its users’ sensitive information to third party websites without the user even knowing about it. LinkedIn provides an AutoFill plugin for a long time that other websites can use to let LinkedIn users quickly fill in profile data, including their full name, phone number, email address, ZIP ...
Read More »Facebook Plans to Build Its Own Chips For Hardware Devices
A new job opening post on Facebook suggests that the social network is forming a team to build its own hardware chips, joining other tech titans like Google, Apple, and Amazon in becoming more self-reliant. According to the post, Facebook is looking for an expert in ASIC and FPGA—two custom silicon designs to help it evaluate, develop and drive next-generation technologies ...
Read More »Maslow’s Pyramid Applied to Cyber Security
Ever heard of the ransomware Slammer? It happened in 2003, when a computer worm infected 75,000 servers across the world. 13,000 of the Bank of America’s ATMs were unusable. 27 million people did not have access to mobile networks in South Korea. Computer sites were frozen in China. All of these happened in just 10 minutes. More than a decade ...
Read More »Russian Hacker Who Allegedly Hacked LinkedIn and Dropbox Extradited to US
A Russian man accused of hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring in 2012 and possibly compromising personal details of over 100 million users, has pleaded not guilty in a U.S. federal court after being extradited from the Czech Republic. Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin, 30, of Moscow was arrested in Prague on October 5, 2016, by Interpol agents working in collaboration with the FBI, but he was ...
Read More »Leader of Hacking Group Who Stole $1 Billion From Banks Arrested In Spain
Spanish Police has arrested the alleged leader of an organised Russian cybercrime gang behind the Carbanak and Cobalt malware attacks, which stole over a billion euros from banks worldwide since 2013. In a coordinated operation with law enforcement agencies across the globe, including the FBI and Europol, Police detained the suspected leader of Carbanak hacking group in Alicante, Spain. Carbanak hacking group started its ...
Read More »Cyber attacks becoming No. 1 business risk
Cyber attacks are becoming the No. 1 risk to business, brands, operations and financials, according to the SonicWall “2018 Cyber Threat Report.” SonicWall has recorded 9.32 billion malware attacks in 2017, an 18.4 percent year-over-year increase from 2016, and saw more than 12,500 new Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) reported for the year, according to the report. “The cyber arms race ...
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