Google this week released Chrome 55 to resolve 36 security vulnerabilities and to switch the popular Adobe Flash plugin off by default.
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State-owned Russian Bank VTB Says Sites Hit by Cyberattack
State-controlled Russian bank VTB said Monday that its websites had been hit by a cyberattack but insisted its systems were still working "as normal".
"A DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack was carried out against VTB Group internet sites," Russia's second largest bank said in a statement carried by Russian news agencies.
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Saudi Aviation Agency Downplays Impact of Shamoon Attack
Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) has confirmed that several government agencies, including its own systems, have been hit by the recent Shamoon 2.0 attacks, but downplayed the impact of the incident.
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WordPress to Require Hosts to Support HTTPS
In an attempt to provide increased security and privacy for its users, WordPress has announced that upcoming features will require hosts to support HTTPS.
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10 Days of DDoS: an Actor’s “Working” Hours
Threat actors working on a schedule similar to that of legitimate businesses recently launched large distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks for ten days in a row, CloudFlare researchers warn.
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Intelligence or Not Intelligence? That is the Question.
Contextual Intelligence Derived from Deep & Dark Web Data Can Deliver Truly Invaluable Insights
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China-Linked Spies Target Taiwan With IE Exploit
A cyberespionage group linked to China has been spotted targeting government organizations in Taiwan using an Internet Explorer vulnerability patched by Microsoft earlier this year.
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White House Should Lead Broad Cybersecurity Effort: Panel
The White House should lead a broad cybersecurity effort with the private sector to guard against potentially crippling attacks and boost confidence in the digital economy, a presidential commission said Friday.
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Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators Easily Hacked: Researchers
The communication protocol used by some of the latest generation of Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators (ICDs) is weak enough to allow even attackers without advanced knowledge to reverse-engineer it and exploit vulnerabilities such as denial of service (DoS), security researchers have discovered.
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50 Million Potentially Impacted by AirDroid Vulnerabilities
Vulnerabilities in the Android remote management tool AirDroid potentially impact over 50 million devices, security researchers at Zimperium zLabs warn.
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