Month: October 2019
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Calypso APT Emerges from the Shadows to Target Governments
A newly discovered APT group, dubbed Calypso after a custom malware RAT that it uses, has been targeting state institutions in six …
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Quantifying Security Results to Justify Costs
The CISO job isn’t to protect the entire business from all threats for any budget. The successful CISO must spell out what business …
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IT desperately needs a ‘too long; didn’t read’ line for growing systems data, alerts
Who hasn’t wished for a ‘too long; didn’t read’ line to go along with the reams of data stacking up in businesses? It isn’t just …
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Utah renewables company was hit by rare cyberattack in March
A Utah-based renewable energy company was the victim of a rare cyberattack that temporarily disrupted communications with several solar and …
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How the Measles Virus Induces ‘Immune Amnesia’
In the summer of 1907, a German doctor named Clemens von Pirquet noticed something strange with one of his patients. The five-year-old boy …
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How NSO Group Helps Countries Hack Targets
A blockbuster lawsuit involving the most popular chat app in the world and the most infamous spyware company in the world has given us …
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Hackers breach security at Web.com, Network Solutions and Register.com, accessing private customer info
Domain name registrar Web.com has revealed that it fell victim to a data breach earlier in the year. Two of the company’s subsidiaries, …
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Understand your social media attack surface
Written by: Sean Michael Kerner As National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) draws to a close, it’s important to re-examine one of …
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ProtonMail shoves its iOS app’s source code on Github for world+dog to rummage around in
Encrypted email biz ProtonMail has open-sourced the code for its iOS app, having pre-emptively paid for a code audit that says there’s …
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Hackers can steal the contents of Horde webmail inboxes with one click
But the researcher did not hear back from the Horde community. Security researchers typically give organizations three months to fix flaws …
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Chinese hackers developed malware to steal SMS messages from telco’s network
One of China’s state-sponsored hacking groups has developed a custom piece of Linux malware that can steal SMS messages from a mobile …
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