Security testing firm IOActive recently surveyed 129 security professionals on the security of Internet of Things devices at its IOAsis San Francisco 2016 event March 1-2, 2016. The result shows extensive distrust of IoT security.
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Security Pros Show Extensive Distrust of IoT Security
Security testing firm IOActive recently surveyed 129 security professionals on the security of Internet of Things devices at its IOAsis San Francisco 2016 event March 1-2, 2016. The result shows extensive distrust of IoT security.
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Improved “Marcher” Banking Trojan Targets UK
Malware developers have made some significant improvements to the Marcher Trojan, which is now also being leveraged by cybercriminals to target the customers of major banks in the United Kingdom.
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Mysterious ICS Malware Targets SCADA Systems
FireEye has come across a mysterious piece of malware that appears to be designed to target industrial control systems (ICS), but which could just be part of someone’s research efforts.
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Gaining OPSEC Resilience with Cyber Situational Awareness
Throughout history Operations Security (OPSEC) has been a key tactic used by commercial and military organizations to protect privacy and anonymity. When done well, it denies adversaries information they could use to do harm to an organization or individual. But criminals also use OPSEC as a means to an end – avoiding detection, maintaining availability of their attack infrastructure, and retaining access to environments they have compromised.
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Cyber Espionage Report: APT at RUAG
During a meeting last week in Belgium with Koen Van Impe, a security analyst with federal cyber emergency team, CERT.be, he recommended I look at a report involving a cyber espionage case involving the firm RUAG.
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Android Spyware Snoops on Government, Military Security Job Seekers
New Android spyware, apparently targeting government security job seekers, has been detected in Saudi Arabia. The code is poor but the malware works efficiently, claims McAfee in a report published yesterday.
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Chinese Cyber Spies Hack Taiwan Ruling Party: FireEye
Chinese Cyber Spies Hack Taiwan Ruling Party: Security Firm
Mainland hackers were likely to be behind an attack on the website of Taiwan's ruling party, a US-based security firm said Thursday, as the island warns of growing cyber threats.
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50 Hackers Using Lurk Banking Trojan Arrested in Russia
Law enforcement officers have arrested 50 hackers across Russia involved in bank fraud using the Lurk trojan, following 86 raids in 15 regions. Fourteen main participants including the three primary organizers were arrested in the Sverdlovsk region. An estimated $45 million has been stolen by the gang, while a further $30 million loss has been prevented by the police. The investigation of the Lurk banking trojan gang was assisted by Kaspersky Lab.
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Cisco Fixes Flaws in Network Analysis Modules
Cisco informed customers on Wednesday that it has released patches for several medium and high severity vulnerabilities affecting its Prime Network Analysis Module products.
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