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Intimate Partner Threat
2018-03-05 17:13

Princeton's Karen Levy has a good article computer security and the intimate partner threat: When you learn that your privacy has been compromised, the common advice is to prevent additional...

Triada Trojan Pre-Installed on Low Cost Android Smartphones
2018-03-05 16:14

Security researchers have discovered the sophisticated Triada Trojan in the firmware of more than 40 low-cost Android smartphone models. read more

600 Powerful Bitcoin-Mining Computers Worth $2 Million Stolen In Iceland
2018-03-05 16:03

Around 600 powerful devices specifically designed for mining bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have been stolen from Icelandic data centers in what has been dubbed the "Big Bitcoin Heist." To...

Memcached Servers Deliver Amplified DDoS Attacks
2018-03-05 14:17

GitHub Disrupted by 1.5 Tbps Onslaught as New DDoS Attack Type EmergesSay hello to a new type of DDoS attack: UDP amplification via internet-facing servers running memcached, an open source...

Largest Ever 1.3Tbps DDoS Attack Includes Embedded Ransom Demands
2018-03-05 14:08

On Tuesday, 27 February, three major DDoS mitigation service providers (Akamai, Cloudflare and Arbor) warned that they had seen spikes in a relatively rare form of reflection/amplification DDoS...

How to improve your security infrastructure when you’re on a budget
2018-03-05 13:35

When you’re on a tight budget for cybersecurity, it can seem almost impossible to secure every part of your businesses’ network without going over budget with the latest technologies in place. You...

Researchers explore real-world deployment of connected medical devices
2018-03-05 13:15

ZingBox researchers detected, identified and analyzed the behavior of medical devices deployed in more than 50 hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare locations. Researchers looked at a wide...

Most healthcare breaches still come from hacking
2018-03-05 13:00

In 2017 the number of individuals affected by breaches within the healthcare sector reached a four-year low. However, 71 percentof breaches in 2017 were due to hacking and IT incidents, and a...

The 3 Biggest Malware Trends to Watch in 2018
2018-03-05 12:07

As the Threat Landscape Shifts, So Too Must Protections read more

Extracting Secrets from Machine Learning Systems
2018-03-05 11:20

This is fascinating research about how the underlying training data for a machine-learning system can be inadvertently exposed. Basically, if a machine-learning system trains on a dataset that...