German political parties have fallen victim to a new round of cyber attacks, documents showed Wednesday, after Berlin's domestic spy agency accused Russia of a series of operations aimed at spying and sabotage.
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Brian Krebs’ Blog Hit by 665 Gbps DDoS Attack
Investigative cybercrime journalist Brian Krebs reported on Tuesday that his website, KrebsOnSecurity.com, was hit by a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that could be the largest in history.
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BINOM3 Energy Meters Vulnerable to Remote Attacks
BINOM3, a multifunctional revenue energy meter and power quality analyzer from Russia-based Algoritm, is plagued by several serious vulnerabilities for which patches don’t appear to exist.
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CloudFlare Adds Support for TLS 1.3
CloudFlare announced on Tuesday the introduction of three new encryption features, including support for TLS 1.3, automatic HTTPS rewrites and opportunistic encryption.
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SWIFT Moves to Combat Inter-Bank Fraud
The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, better known as SWIFT, announced Tuesday that it will be introducing two new Daily Validation Reports to supplement its customers' existing fraud reports.
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Enhancing Communication Between Security and DevOps
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Continue readingFlaw Allowed Hackers to Hijack Facebook Pages
An Indian researcher earned a significant bug bounty from Facebook after discovering a serious vulnerability that could have been exploited to hijack Facebook pages.
The flaw, identified by Arun Sureshkumar, affected Facebook Business Manager, a free tool that allows users to manage ad accounts, pages, apps and the people who work on them.
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Why Data Reduction is Key for Meaningful Visualizations
As many of you are aware, I have spent quite a bit of time in Security Operations Centers (SOCs) over the course of my career. I remember one particular experience like it was yesterday. A high ranking executive came through for a whirlwind tour that literally lasted about 17 seconds. On her way out, she screamed, “I need more pictures on those big screens!”.
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Chinese Researchers Remotely Hack Tesla Model S
Security researchers from China-based tech company Tencent have identified a series of vulnerabilities that can be exploited to remotely hack an unmodified Tesla Model S while it’s parked or on the move.
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OpenSSL to Patch High Severity Vulnerability
The OpenSSL Project announced on Monday that it will soon release updates that patch several vulnerabilities, including one rated as having “high” severity.
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