New details have emerged relating to a hack attack against French broadcaster TV5Monde, which resulted in multiple television channels going dark as well as social media channels run by the broadcaster being hijacked and used to spew apparent jihadist propaganda. The results of the attack have been well-publicized. In April 2015, online attackers sabotaged French broadcaster TV5Monde, knocking 12 of the broadcaster's channels offline for 18 hours....
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Amazon Web Services and Google Groups have seen data exposures due to poor configurations by users. Now, some have accidentally shared passwords on Trello boards. Data exposures in web applications and cloud services are becoming more in fashion these days, and Trello is the latest service being used poorly in the enterprise. According to an investigation reported by Brian Krebs, Flashpoint security analyst David Shear discovered hundreds of boards exposing data and passwords on Trello from gove...
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More than 25 CISOs weighed in, with many anticipating 2016 will bring more orchestrated attacks, such as "business email compromise," and incident response will remain a key focus for enterprises. They also anticipate a rise in investments in risk mitigation programs and integrated threat intelligence and analysis capabilities.
"Companies not only need to have solid incident response plans but also need to gain deep visibility into what is happening inside their IT environm...
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Resuming cyber security cooperation between China and the United States would be difficult because of "mistaken US practices", China's top diplomat told US Secretary of State John Kerry....
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In the face of a Federal Bureau of Investigation proposal requesting backdoors into encrypted communications, a noted encryption expert urged Congress not to adopt the requirements due to technical faults in the plan...
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Cybercriminals could be raking in profits 20 times higher than the cost of their attacks, according to figures compiled by Kaspersky Lab experts. Their research compared the cost of the most frequently used hacker tools with the money stolen in successful malicious operations....
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