Several vulnerabilities have been found in Allen-Bradley programmable automation controllers, programmable logic controllers and safety programmable controllers from Rockwell Automation.
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Man Pleads Guilty to Hacking Accounts of U.S. Officials
Justin G. Liverman, a 24-year-old from North Carolina, has pleaded guilty for his part in a hacking conspiracy that targeted several U.S. government officials, including CIA chief John Brennan.
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Cloud Security Firm Bitglass Raises $45 Million
Bitglass, a Silicon Valley-based provider of mobile and cloud data protection solutions, today announced that it has secured $45 million in a Series C funding round.
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China-Linked “DragonOK” Group Expands Operations
A China-linked threat group known as DragonOK has updated its toolset, and the decoy documents it has used in attacks suggest that its list of targets may have been expanded to include Russia and Tibet.
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Google Patches High Risk Vulnerability in Android Bootloader
A vulnerability recently addressed in Google’s January 2017 Android security bulletin was a denial of service (DoS) flaw in the bootloader, which could be exploited to target Nexus 6 and 6P custom boot modes, IBM security researchers reveal.
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New “Ghost Host” Technique Boosts Botnet Resiliency
Malware Developers Trick Web Security Systems by Changing Domain Names and Inserting Non-malicious Hostnames into HTTP Host Field.
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Multiple Attackers Hijacking MongoDB Databases for Ransom
The recently reported hijacking of MongoDB databases to hold their content for ransom is picking up pace as more hackers are trying to monetize the attack method, security researchers say.
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Iranian Group Delivers Malware via Fake Oxford University Sites
An Iran-linked advanced persistent threat (APT) group dubbed OilRig has used a fake Juniper Networks VPN portal and fake University of Oxford websites to deliver malware to victims.
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Fake Super Mario Run for Android Installs Malware
The Android Marcher Trojan was recently observed masquerading as the recently released Super Mario Run mobile game for Apple’s iOS, Zscaler security researchers warn.
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Massachusetts Opens Data Breach Notification Archive to Public
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts this week made an important step toward improving data breach transparency, as the Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation (OCABR) made its Data Breach Notification Archive publicly available online.
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