While threats emanating from ISIS-inspired cyberattacks are of high concern, intelligence analysts have concluded that, as of now, the cyber capabilities of the Islamic State and its supporters are still relatively weak and appear to be underfunded and poorly organized.
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Cisco Finds Backdoor Installed on 12 Million PCs
UPDATED. Cisco’s Talos security intelligence and research group has come across a piece of software that installed backdoors on 12 million computers around the world.
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Critical, High Severity Flaws Patched in Firefox
Mozilla has patched a total of 14 vulnerabilities, including ones rated critical and high severity, with the release of Firefox 46.
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FBI Won’t Disclose iPhone Hack Details to Apple
Washington – The FBI said Wednesday it would not disclose details of its hack of an iPhone used by one of the shooters in last year's San Bernardino killing spree.
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Verizon 2016 DBIR: What You Need to Know
Verizon has published its widely anticipated 2016 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), compiled by Verizon with the support of 67 contributing partners. This year’s report includes analysis of more than 100,000 security incidents and 2,260 confirmed data breaches across 82 different countries.
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Concerns Raised Over Malware in German Nuclear Plant
It was reported today that multiple forms of malware have been found in a German nuclear energy plant in Gundremmingen, 75 miles north-west of Munich. Coming almost precisely 30 years after the Chernobyl disaster, with memories of recent European terrorist events, and the lingering memory of the Stuxnet worm as the world's first cyberweapon, concerns are immediate and obvious.
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Attackers Increasingly Abuse Open Source Security Tools
Instead of developing their own hacking tools or buying them from third parties, threat groups have increasingly turned their attention to open source security tools, Kaspersky Lab reported on Wednesday.
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7 Million Impacted by Lifeboat Minecraft Community Breach
The accounts of more than 7 million members of the Minecraft community “Lifeboat” have been exposed after a data breach in early 2016.
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Are You Getting the Most from Your Threat Intelligence Subscription?
The Value of Knowing More About Threats is Limited When it Cannot be Applied to Prevent Threats
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“Platinum” Cyberspies Abuse Hotpatching in Asia Attacks
Microsoft has been observing the activities of a cyber espionage group that has leveraged a Windows patching system in attacks aimed at organizations in South and Southeast Asia.
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