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The radio frequency remote controllers used for safety critical industrial applications are less secure than typical garage door remotes, according to a new report from Trend Micro. Sign up for Which-50's Irregular Insights newsletter The…
Potential attackers could view and change private information in flight bookings made by millions of customers of major international airlines because of a security issue in the Amadeus online booking system found by Safety Detective's Noam Rotem.
How is it that something can remain a threat for so long? In the case of cryptocurrency mining malware, the issue is once again being labeled the primary threat to crypto expansion by Check Point, a leading cybersecurity company, who now states…
Security Boulevard
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Fortinet All Blogs
– Jan 14, 7:00 PM
Breaking Threat Research from FortiGuard Labs Just days ago, Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs captured a malicious MS Word document from the wild that contains auto-executable malicious VBA code that can spread and install NanoCore RAT software on a…
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share by Email Coast Capital Savings says 140 members had money stolen from their accounts during a targeted cyber fraud attack in November and December of last year. The credit union doesn't know exactly how much…
The Insurance and Investment Journal
– Jan 16, 8:30 AM
The Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) has identified its compliance priorities for 2019. They include risks and trends identified in firms' business conduct, financial operations requirements, trading practices, as well…
“We passed our last security assessment! Why are you asking for more resources?” CISOs often feel like they are on a treadmill – fighting fires, adjusting security controls, adding new technologies, and constantly asking for…
A researcher by the name of Greg Pollock at the cybersecurity firm UpGuard recently discovered that the Oklahoma Securities Commission left three terabytes of sensitive data unsecured on a server allowing anyone with an internet connection to…
After the U.S. government shut down their scheme trading stocks on pilfered corporate press announcements, a team of Eastern European hackers moved on to an even more ambitious target: the SEC. That's the startling claim laid out in a Tuesday court…
A torrent file on The Pirate Bay for the film The Girl in the Spider's Web has been found to contain a very subtle strain of malware. It was first discovered by security researcher 0xffff0800 and reported in detail at BleepingComputer.
