As reported by Threatpost, the US law enforcement agency's tool is akin to systems used by cybersecurity companies to upload suspicious files. Once a file is uploaded, the system pushes through antimalware engines to pull out information on the file -- whether it is malicious, what the malware does, and whom it effects....
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Telsa, the green-car, solar and satellite company headed by Elon Musk, has fallen victim to hackers and crypto-jackers. RedLock CSI researchers found that bad actors intruded into Tesla’s public cloud environment to gain unauthorized access to nonpublic Tesla data like vehicle telemetry and steal compute resources within Tesla’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment to mine cryptocurrencies. At issue was Tesla’s Kubernetes administrative console, which exposed access credential...
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Despite a great start, the rate of patching OpenSSL servers against the critical Heartbleed vulnerability has slowed down to almost a halt. Around 300,000 servers remain vulnerable and many of them are unlikely to get patched anytime soon....
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AIKEN, S.C. (WRDW/WAGT) -- He was an Admiral in the Navy, but now he works to protect America from threats online. He gave a crowd at USC Aiken even more reasons as to why a new cyber training center along Augusta's Riverfront will be so important in fighting a cyber war. The man spent time talking about the need for more workers in America's fight against cyber-terrorism....
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A major cyber attack will happen between now and 2025 and it will be large enough to cause “significant loss of life or property losses/damage/theft at the levels of tens of billions of dollars,” according to more than 60 percent of technology experts interviewed by the Pew Internet and American Life Project....
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Most UK C-level executives that have suffered a breach care about the associated costs more than losing customers, according to new research from Centrify. The identity security vendor polled 800 CEOs, CFOs, CTOs, CIOs, and CISOs in US and UK organizations to compile its latest report, CEO Disconnect is Weakening Cybersecurity. In the UK, 63% of respondents rated investigation, remediation and legal costs as the most important factor stemming from a breach, followed by disruption to operations (...
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