"Cyber AIR" Act Would Direct FAA to Establish Cybersecurity Standards for Aircraft
Senator Edward Markey (D-Mass.), Thursday, introduced a proposed new Cyber AIR Act as amendments to the FAA Reauthorization Bill currently being debated by the Senate. His bill follows his own investigation into the security practices of airlines and aircraft manufacturers.
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Google Improves Safe Browsing for Network Admins
Google informed network admins this week that it has made some improvements to the Safe Browsing Alerts for Network Administrators service.
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C&C Flaw Offers Glimpse into Dridex Operations
Researchers have gained access to a command and control (C&C) panel of the Dridex banking malware, which has allowed them to determine how much information has been stolen by cybercriminals and how much money they might be making.
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Adobe Patches Flash Zero-Day Exploited by Magnitude EK
Adobe released a Flash Player update on Thursday to patch a zero-day vulnerability that has been leveraged by cybercriminals to deliver malware via the Magnitude exploit kit.
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Germany, France Hit Most by Locky Ransomware: Kaspersky
While it has been roughly two months since it was first spotted, the Locky ransomware has become a global threat, targeting users in 114 countries. While the threat has infected systems around the world, a heavy concentration of attacks have registered in Germany and France, Kaspersky Lab says.
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Karamba Security Emerges From Stealth to Protect Cars From Hackers
Karamba Security, a company specializing in solutions designed to protect connected cars from cyberattacks, has come out of stealth mode with $2.5 million raised in seed funding.
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Ubuntu Patches Several Kernel Vulnerabilities
Updates released on Wednesday for the Ubuntu operating system address several vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel, including ones that can be exploited for denial-of-service (DoS) attacks and arbitrary code execution.
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Don’t Improve Network Security – Create Secure Networks
Security Leaders Must Change Their Mindset on How to Think About Policy, Detection and Enforcement
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ATMs to IoT: The Generational Divide of Digital Trust
The former CISO of a large intelligence community agency once told me, “The number one challenge in IT Security is the carbon-based life form.” Needless to say, that comment has stuck with me as I read articles daily about hacks with their genesis found in credentials lifted from phishing schemes.
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OSVDB Shut Down Permanently
The maintainers of the Open Sourced Vulnerability Database (OSVDB) announced this week that the project will be shut down permanently due to the lack of support from the industry.
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