Municipal planners in Europe are embracing digital technologies to deliver various services to the citizens. Smart-city services connect Internet-enabled sensors on buses, in rental bike racks, or parking meters, and then make use of an app or SMS with the citizen’s smartphone for payment. But Europe’s rich hacking culture has makers and breakers poking and prodding at these new systems every day.
read more
Locky Variant Osiris Distributed via Excel Documents
The infamous Locky ransomware has once again switched to a new extension to append to encrypted files, but reverted to malicious Office documents for distribution, security researchers have discovered.
read more
Google Patches 74 Vulnerabilities in Android
Google this week released the December 2016 set of monthly patches for the Android platform which resolved a total of 74 vulnerabilities, 11 which were rated Critical severity.
read more
Cybersecurity and Donald Trump: Where Do We Go From Here?
(InfosecIsland) – Given the unforeseen results of the 2016 US Presidential election, it is hard to predict the future, particularly in sorting out campaign promises from policy intent.
read more
HDDCryptor Ransomware Variant Used in San Francisco Rail System Attack
News broke last week of a ransomware attack targeting the San Francisco Municipal Transport Authority (SFMTA, or 'Muni'), and security researchers have now taken a closer look at the malware used.
read more
Industry Reactions to Presidential Commission’s Cybersecurity Report
The Presidential Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity last week published a set of recommendations aimed at strengthening cybersecurity across the public and private sectors.
read more
Don’t Get Caught in the Noise, Focus Your Security on What You can Control
Trying to Focus on Everything at Once is the Same as Focusing on Nothing at All…
read more
100,000 UK Routers Likely Affected by Mirai Variant
Approximately 100,000 UK TalkTalk and Post Office ISP users were affected by the recent Mirai attack that severely affected nearly a million Deutsche Telekom customers in Germany in late November. It was assumed that the UK victims were the outer ripples of the primary attack; and this was confirmed by a subsequent report that quoted the Mirai developer as apologizing for the effect on the Post Office.
read more
Experts Hopeful as Confidence in Risk Assessment Falls
The 2017 Global Cybersecurity Assurance Report Card shows a six point fall from last year's rating — down from 76% to 70% (marked as C-). Although organizations' confidence in mitigating threats is constant at 79% (C+), confidence in the ability to assess risks has tumbled 12 points from 73% to 61% (D-).
read more
Flash Player Remains Main Target of Exploit Kits: Report
The most common vulnerabilities used by exploit kits in the past year affect Flash Player, Windows, Internet Explorer and Silverlight, according to a report published on Tuesday by threat intelligence firm Recorded Future.
read more
