Stockholm – The online editions of Sweden's main newspapers were knocked out for several hours by unidentified hackers at the weekend, police said Sunday as they launched an investigation.
The attack was "extremely dangerous and serious," the head of the Swedish Media Publishers' Association, Jeanette Gustafsdotter, told Swedish news agency TT.
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Bangladesh Heist Exposes Philippine Dirty Money Secrets
When mystery hackers launched a stunning raid on Bangladesh's foreign reserves, a plot worthy of a John le Carre spy novel was sparked in the Philippines, exposing the Southeast Asian nation as a dirty money haven.
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Microsoft Adds OneDrive to Bug Bounty Program
Microsoft announced this week at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, Canada, that it has added OneDrive to the company’s Online Services Bug Bounty Program.
The tech giant says it’s prepared to pay between $500 and $15,000 for vulnerabilities in the online cloud storage service.
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FBI Reminds That Cars are Increasingly Vulnerable to Remote Exploits
FBI Reminds That Connected Cars Are Increasingly Vulnerable to Remote Exploits
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95% of HTTPS Servers Vulnerable to Trivial Connection Hijacking
With just 5 percent of web servers correctly implementing HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS), the remaining 95 percent are vulnerable to trivial connection hijacking attacks, research shows.
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ProtonMail Opens Encrypted Email Service to Public
Encrypted email provider ProtonMail announced the global availability of its privacy focused email service to the public this week.
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Buhtrap Gang Steals Millions From Russian Banks
The cybercriminal gang known as Buhtrap has stolen $25 million from 13 Russian banks over a six-month period, according to a report published on Thursday by Russia-based security firm Group-IB.
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Bangladesh Central Bank ‘Complicit’ in Heist: Minister
The Bangladesh finance minister has accused central bank officials of being complicit in an audacious $81 million theft from an overseas account, in an interview with a leading Bengali newspaper published Friday.
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Samas Ransomware Uses Pen Testing Tools for Delivery
A fairly new piece of ransomware has been found leveraging pen-testing/attack tools for a more targeted approach of getting installed on compromised systems, Microsoft researchers warn.
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MITRE Launches Pilot for Rapid Assignment of CVEs
With an increasing number of researchers displeased with the fact that it takes a lot of time to assign Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) identifiers to their flaws, the MITRE Corporation has decided to launch a pilot program whose goal is to address the need for rapid CVE assignments.
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