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Tag Archives: Security threats
Russian hackers are ready to disrupt US energy utilities, says DHS
Jonathan Homer says Russian hackers have snared “hundreds of victims” in the utilities and equipment sectors and “got to the point where they could have thrown switches” in a way that could have caused power blackouts.
Google hasn’t suffered an employee phishing compromise in over a year
Phishing attackers have failed to compromise a single employee account at Google since the company mandated authentication using U2F hardware tokens in early 2017. That’s the remarkable claim made to security writer Brian Krebs.
Why your website is officially ‘not secure’ from today
Chrome will mark all HTTP sites as “not secure” starting on Tuesday – an important milestone on the road to HTTPS everywhere.
DOJ to publicly disclose election tampering schemes
Under a new policy, US organizations and individuals will be told if they’re the target of foreign operations trying to influence elections.
Hackers hold 80,000 healthcare records to ransom
CarePartners said its forensic investigation identified 1500 affected records – the hackers say they took 80,000.
Roblox says hacker injected code that led to avatars’ gang rape
Roblox was moving some older, user-generated games to a newer, more secure system when the attack took place, it says.
Could semantic icons replace passwords and PINs?
SemanticLock replaces passwords, PINs and patterns with a sequence of graphical icons which work semantically.
21-year-old spy tool developer faces prison
Luminosity RAT sold for as little as $39.99 and could spy, steal passwords, mine cryptocurrency, and launch DDoSes.
How to spoof someone’s GPS navigation to send them the wrong way
Researchers have for the first time demonstrated that it’s possible to spoof turn-by-turn GPS road navigation to send users to specific wrong locations.