French defense contractor DCNS has been hit by a massive leak of secret data on its submarines likely to alarm India, Malaysia and Chile which use the boats, The Australian newspaper reported on Wednesday.
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10 Ways to Protect Against Dual Revenue Attacks
To many financially motivated cybercriminals, one of the most valuable commodities is data. But not all data is valued equally. They want data that is fresh, good quality and easily monetized. For credit cards and prepaid cards this translates into low balances and high credit limits or card values. For healthcare data it means health history that includes personally identifiable information.
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Hackers Steal 25 Million Accounts From Mail.Ru Domains
Hackers have managed to steal millions of user accounts from several Mail.Ru domains, but the Russian Internet company says the compromised credentials are invalid and assured customers that they are not at risk.
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Cisco Updates ASA Software to Address NSA-Linked Exploit
Cisco has started releasing updates for its Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) software to address a remote code execution vulnerability leveraged by a recently leaked zero-day exploit.
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Android Botnet Uses Twitter for Receiving Commands
A newly discovered Android backdoor is using an innovative method of receiving commands: it connects to a Twitter account instead of a command and control (C&C) server, ESET researchers say.
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Flaws Allow Attackers to Hijack VMware vRA Appliances
VMware informed customers on Tuesday that it has addressed a couple of vulnerabilities that can be chained together and exploited by attackers to take complete control of vRealize Automation (vRA) appliances.
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Dragos Raises $1.2 Million to Counter ICS Cyber Threats
Dragos, a startup focused on protecting industrial control systems (ICS) from cyber threats, has raised $1.2 million from startup studio DataTribe.
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Hadoop Data Encryption at Rest and in Transit
In my previous contribution I reviewed Apache Hadoop’s native support for HDFS Encryption, which allows sensitive data to be stored and encrypted on HDFS with keys protected by KMS access control lists.
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Critical Vulnerability Found in Moxa Servers, Gateways
Several products from industrial networking and automation solutions provider Moxa are plagued by a critical vulnerability. The vendor has released firmware updates for many of the affected devices.
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Linux Trojan Brute Forces Routers to Install Backdoors
A Linux Trojan that emerged more than a year ago is once again actively targeting routers in an attempt to install backdoors on them.
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