by Matt Boddy If you have an IoT device in your home, you could be receiving an average of 13 login attempts to these devices per minute. That’s what I found in my latest research project. Over the past 3 months, I’ve setup and monitored 10 honeypots located across 5 different continents. These have been
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Did you know the average internet-enabled household contains more than ten connected devices? With IoT devices proliferating almost every aspect of our everyday lives, it’s no wonder IoT-based attacks are becoming smarter and more widespread than ever before. From DDoS to home network exposures, it appears cybercriminals have set their sights on the digital dependence
Latest ESET research describes the inner workings of a recently found addition to OceanLotus’s toolset for targeting Mac users Early in March 2019, a new macOS malware sample from the OceanLotus group was uploaded to VirusTotal, a popular online multi-scanner service. This backdoor executable bears the same features as the previous macOS variant we looked
It’s been a long time since the original ten members of Meow Wolf’s art collective had to scrounge in dumpsters for the raw materials to bring their galaxy spanning visions to life. Now, with well over $18 million in financing behind them, the story of a troupe of misunderstood, hardscrabble artists trying to create something
A cybersecurity researcher at Tenable has discovered multiple security vulnerabilities in Verizon Fios Quantum Gateway Wi-Fi routers that could allow remote attackers to take complete control over the affected routers, exposing every other device connected to it. Currently used by millions of consumers in the United States, Verizon Fios Quantum Gateway Wi-Fi routers have been
Rocket Lab, one of the biggest startups in the NewSpace category of companies providing launch and satellite services, has added satellite manufacturing to the array of services it offers to customers. The company, which already had developed launch capabilities and has begun sending payloads into space, can now deliver fully built satellites to its customers,
With the use of deep learning, researchers Yisroel Mirsky, Tom Mahler, Ilan Shelef and Yuval Elovici at Cyber Security Labs at Ben-Gurion University demonstrated in a video proof of concept (PoC) that an attacker could fool three expert radiologists by falsifying CT scans, inserting or removing lung cancer, the Washington Post reported. “In 2018, clinics and
by Lisa Vaas Last week, malicious code was slipped into Bootstrap for Sass, the free, open-source, very popular, and widely deployed front-end web framework. The good news: the good guys stamped it into oblivion lickety-split. According to the timeline provided by Snyk – a company that provides tools to find and fix known vulnerabilities in
The net is dark and full of terrors, especially for fans of HBO’s coveted show “Game of Thrones.” As followers of the series gear up for the premiere of the eighth and final season on April 14th, fans may have more than just white walkers and the Night King to worry about. According to a
The European Commission has announced the launch of a pilot project intended to test draft ethical rules for developing and applying artificial intelligence technologies to ensure they can be implemented in practice. It’s also aiming to garner feedback and encourage international consensus building for what it dubs “human-centric AI” — targeting among other talking shops
Visibility into an environment attack surface is the fundamental cornerstone to sound security decision making. However, the standard process of 3rd party threat assessment as practiced today is both time consuming and expensive. Cynet changes the rules of the game with a free threat assessment offering based on more than 72 hours of data collection
The HBO sci-fi blockbuster Westworld has been an inspiring look into what humanlike robots can do for us in the meatspace. While current technologies are not quite advanced enough to make Westworld a reality, startups are attempting to replicate the sort of human-robot interaction it presents in virtual space. Rct studio, which just graduated from
Phishing scams and cyberattacks are on the rise, resulting in millions of dollars in company losses with every successful attempt. Hackers break in through a company network and gain access to all connected endpoints. Endpoint devices are internet-capable computer hardware devices on a TCP/IP network and include desktop computers, tablets and thin clients. As the
Regulators in Australia are cracking down on social media sites in the aftermath of the deadly shooting at two mosques in Christchurch that killed 50 people, according to Reuters. The Criminal Code Amendment (Sharing of Abhorrent Violent Material) Act 2019 would prohibit social media sites and internet or hosting services from allowing “abhorrent violent material.” Such material would
by Lisa Vaas Should you “share, share, share” the “urgent warning” that hackers are “posting sexual videos and pictures on your walls” that are completely invisible to you? No, you should not sharedy-sharedy-SHARE-share-share, because this latest viral Facebook copy-and-paste-me warning is just another social media sneeze, spreading its hoaxy germs in spite of the fact
It’s tax season, which has me thinking about one of decentralized technology’s holy grails: self-sovereign identities. It’s a stirring vision, of a world in which control over our driver’s licenses, passports, birth certificates, social security numbers — the table stakes to participate in the modern economy — rests in our hands, rather than that of
If you have a “private” blog with WordPress.com and are using its official iOS app to create or edit posts and pages, the secret authentication token for your admin account might have accidentally been leaked to third-party websites. WordPress has recently patched a severe vulnerability in its iOS application that apparently leaked secret authorization tokens
Tesla is preparing to roll out a more capable and robust version of its automated parking feature known as Enhanced Summon next week, CEO Elon Musk tweeted Saturday. The tweet comes just days after the company released a new version of Navigate on Autopilot, an advanced driving feature that is viewed as a step towards
Researchers at Cisco Talos detected an excess of 70 Facebook groups that have been selling black-market cyber-fraud services, some of which have managed to remain on Facebook for up to eight years, according to a Talos Intelligence blog post. For several months, researchers have been investigating online criminal flea markets on Facebook, discovering a collective
by John E Dunn Cybercriminals are reportedly exploiting a critical flaw in the Magento e-commerce platform only days after it was made public by the researchers who discovered it. Scoring a 9.0 on CVSS, the bug doesn’t yet have a CVE number to identify it but Magento refers to its patching list as PRODSECBUG-2198 (the
What adults call texting, kids call talking. They “talk” on their phones via chat, social comments, snaps, posts, tweets, and direct messages. And they are talking most of the time — tap, tap, tap — much like background music. In all this “talking” a language, or code, emerges just as it has for every generation only today that
What could be worse than this, if the software that’s meant to protect your devices leave backdoors open for hackers or turn into malware? Researchers today revealed that a security app that comes pre-installed on more than 150 million devices manufactured by Xiaomi, China’s biggest and world’s 4th largest smartphone company, was suffering from multiple
Let’s start this week’s newsletter with some data. Nationally, startups pulled in $30.8 billion in the first quarter of 2019, up 22 percent year-on-year, according to Crunchbase’s latest deal round-up. A closer look at the numbers shows a big drop in angel funding and a slight decrease in mega-rounds, or financings larger than $100 million.
Photo editing app-maker VSCO has filed a lawsuit against competitor PicsArt. The suit focuses on 19 PicsArt filters that were supposedly “reverse engineered from VSCO’s filters,” with VSCO alleging it’s become a legal issue involving false advertising and violations of the app’s terms of service. “VSCO has invested significant time and resources in developing its presets
Hackers have been breaking into home routers to change DNS server settings and hijack the traffic to redirect it to malicious sites, according to Troy Mursch, security researcher for Bad Packets. Researchers have detected different types of attacks that are targeting consumer routers, all of which were reportedly traced back to hosts on the Google Cloud Platform
by Paul Ducklin I bet you’ve heard of GPS, short for Global Positioning System. It’s owned and operated by the US government but it’s available for free to anyone in the world – and, boy, is it widely used. GPS is a fantastic feat of science and engineering that is anything but simple in implementation,
In this episode, we’ll hear from Wayne Anderson, Enterprise Security Architect at McAfee and Dan Flaherty from the cloud security product team speak on a wide range of topics from upcoming technology trends in the market, to adversarial machine learning, cloud models for security, and a look back at the RSA conference.
The databases, sitting unprotected on cloud servers, contained reams of information amassed by two apps integrated with the social network Two caches of data on millions of Facebook users were recently discovered sitting unprotected on cloud-computing servers. In one security lapse, no fewer than 540 million records on Facebook users were found lying around in
EXCLUSIVE — Beware, if you are using a Xiaomi’s Mi or Redmi smartphone, you should immediately stop using its built-in MI browser or the Mint browser available on Google Play Store for non-Xiaomi Android devices. That’s because both web browser apps created by Xiaomi are vulnerable to a critical vulnerability which has not yet been
Seemingly the sole government body policing tech platforms, the ole’ European Union, is now taking aim at desktop gaming’s biggest storefront, Steam, and its creator Valve. The commission sent a “Statements of Objections” to Valve and five other video game publishers, raising a fuss over the companies’ habits of “geo-blocking” purchases, i.e. prohibiting users from
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