Borg slings patch at bonehead hardcoded admin password hole
Cisco has squashed a hardcoded admin password flaw in its Unified Communications Domain Manager, as it allowed remote hackers to mess with instant messaging and phone platforms. The Borg slapped the...
View ArticleWeb-based IM apps prone to hacking, security tests show
Web-based versions of five of six instant messaging apps (IM apps) commonly used in Hong Kong are prone to information leaks, Apple Daily reported on Monday, citing the results of a recent security...
View ArticleVolvo exec pledges to protect drivers from hackers
Volvo’s information technology boss says the Swedish automaker’s commitment to safety includes the promise to protect its customers from vehicle hackers. Klas Bendrik, 45, Volvo’s chief information...
View ArticleSurveillance Tech Firm Hacking Team Falls Victim to Hackers
Hacking Team, a company that helps governments and others with surveillance, is the victim of a major breach that leaks 400GB of documents. Italian cyber-security vendor Hacking Team, a company whose...
View ArticleSPECIAL REPORT: Protecting information online from hackers
In an age where passwords are needed for nearly everything, it can be tricky keeping track of them all. Experts recommend using password managers, but are they really safe? Last month, LastPass, one of...
View ArticleWA hackers troll data against the rest
A competition between WA data hackers and teams from the Eastern States and New Zealand has been held in Perth to develop new and innovative ways of using official Government data to advance services...
View ArticleHackers provide creative solutions to open government data
Six teams submitted innovative and engaging entries at the inaugural GovHack Sunshine Coast event held from 3-5 July. Twenty people attended the launch on Friday night, including sponsors, to kick off...
View ArticleCISCO CDM ROOT ACCESS WIDE OPEN TO HACKERS
The Cisco Unified Communications Domain Manager (Cisco CDM) is a service delivery and management platform that automates administrative functions for the Unity Connection and Jabber applications. The...
View ArticleNYSE denies hackers crashed stock exchange
White House briefed President on outage, but stock exchange blames “internal technical issue” The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has resumed trading after a technical glitch that it has denied was the...
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Morpho hackers target corporates such as Apple, Facebook: Symantec
A corporate espionage group has compromised a string of major corporations over the past three years in order to steal confidential information and intellectual property. Technology firms like Twitter,...
View ArticleTurkish police paid 440,000 euros to hackers for spyware
The Turkish police paid 440,000 euros to an Italian hacker group between August 2011 and February 2015 to target certain individuals with specially designed spyware, according to leaked documents seen...
View ArticleHACKERS USE PUBLIC WI-FI NETWORKS TO STEAL YOUR INFORMATION
Experts say free Wi-Fi connections in public places are usually secure, but more and more criminals are finding ways to lure you onto their rogue connections. When you do, they are collecting...
View ArticleFBI Director ‘Sure’ Foreign Hackers Have His Personal Data
The head of the FBI says foreign hackers now have some of his most sensitive files, containing details about his security clearances and his family. FBI Director James Comey said today he’s one of the...
View ArticleActually, those Chinese hackers put 20 million Americans at risk
The estimated 4 million US citizens whose information was seized by Chinese hackers in this past April’s large-scale cyber attack could actually be closer to 20 million. However, reports are surfacing...
View ArticleUS Says Hackers Stole Social Security Numbers From 21.5 Million People in...
US says hackers stole Social Security numbers from 21.5 million people in recent data breach. The U.S. Office of Personnel Management announced on Thursday that sensitive information including Social...
View ArticleHackers don’t want to crash stock exchanges. They want to make money on them.
When the New York Stock Exchange abruptly shut down trading Wednesday morning, there wasn’t much question what most people were worried about. “Let’s hope it’s not a hack,” one money manager told USA...
View ArticleIranian Hackers Infiltrated a Canadian Government System
A Canadian government network was successfully hacked and compromised by alleged Iran-based hackers as part of Tehran’s response to various western cyber attacks, VICE News has learned. The Canadian...
View ArticleWikiLeaks Posts Library of Leaked Italian Hackers’ Emails
WikiLeaks has published a searchable library of the massive email trove stolen from Italian surveillance company Hacking Team, ensuring more exposure for the spyware vendor’s secretive clients....
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Using Behaviors, Facts and User Session Assembly to Identify User Impersonation
OVERVIEW All of the biggest data breaches, judged either by number of records breached or the importance of the data stolen, have involved attackers leveraging stolen user credentials to gain access....
View ArticleHackers must think Americans are dumb
Hackers are becoming ho-hum news. A few thousand credit cards hacked there. A couple of hundred thousand insurance records there. So it goes. It is almost everyday news, even though we suspect that the...
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