Argus Cyber Security, the Israeli cybersecurity company, said late last week that it was able to hack into a vehicle’s internal communication system using a device installed in cars by insurance companies to track driving patterns, or for car owners who want in-vehicle Wi-Fi....
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Cloud-based endpoint security firm CrowdStrike announced on Tuesday that it has expanded the capabilities of its Falcon platform by adding a powerful search engine. The search engine is powered by Falcon MalQuery, which CrowdStrike claims is more than 250 times faster than other malware search tools. MalQuery uses a patent-pending indexing technology and it allows users to filter results so that they are provided only the most relevant information. CrowdStrike says its threat database has indexe...
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Mumsnet has suffered a serious data leak affecting potentially thousands of users after a software glitch during an IT system migration to the cloud. Justine Roberts, founder and CEO of the popular parenting forum, explained in a blog post late last week that the issue affected users for the best part of two days: from 2pm on February 5 to 9am on February 7. “During this time, it appears that a user logging into their account at the same time as another user logged in, could have had their...
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“The fourth quarter of 2013 will be remembered as the period when cybercrime became ‘real’ for more people than ever before,” said Vincent Weafer, senior vice president for McAfee Labs, in a statement. “These cyber-thefts occurred at a time when most people were focused on their holiday shopping and when the industry wanted people to feel secure and confident in their purchases.”...
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Darknet hoster Deep Hosting has claimed to have suffered a major security breach over the weekend which led to some of its customers’ data being compromised. The hacker registered a shared account with the platform then used it to upload two shells to its servers, one in PHP and one written in Perl. The former was able to execute. "A large part of the PHP shell is unusable since a certain number of functions are blocked on the shared servers but one function was not blocked," Dee...
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Over the course of two years, Rutgers University suffered from nearly a dozen Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, which disrupted access to web services like Sakai, disabled internet access for anyone on campus and virtually crippled the school’s network infrastructure...
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