Cyber Security Newsfeeds from around the world
Former Equifax CEO Richard Smith on Tuesday expressed deep regret for compromising sensitive personal information of as many as 143 million Americans under his watch.http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/02/news/companies/equifax-smith-cyber-breach-apology/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:%20rss/cnn_latest%20%28RSS:%20CNN%20-%20Most%20Recent%29
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Cited as one of the largest incidents of its kind in history, the recent Equifax data breach underscores that every business and individual is vulnerable to theft of sensitive information by unscrupulous hackers. In less than a week following its… By: Wilson Elser
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Fortinet warns businesses and individuals in India to brace for escalating cyber-attacks as cyber-criminals expand their targets to home network devices and mobile devices.http://cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/digital-security/fortinet-offers-essential-cyber-safety-tips-amidst-escalating-cyber-attacks/60854724?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=ETRSS
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The study states that individual devices and user data are becoming prime targets for cyber-criminals, with one in 20 attacks target smartphones and tablets…http://www.cxotoday.com/story/smartphones-tablets-are-prime-targets-for-cyber-criminals-study/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:%20cxotoday%20%28CXOtoday%29
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The widespread sharing of IoT malware is having a significant effect on the broader threat landscape, with source code and even tutorials now freely available on Darknet forums. For starters, the hacker economy is maturing – their communities have been growing for some time now.http://www.businesscomputingworld.co.uk/malware-sharing-presents-new-problems-for-the-iot/
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Equifax, one of the three nationwide credit bureaus that track and rate the financial history of consumers, announced in September that it had suffered a data breach exposing personal information of up to 143 million Americans. The personal… By: Fenwick & West LLPhttp://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/equifax-breach-3-immediate-steps-21496/
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Are you sure the version of WhatsApp, or Skype, or VLC Player installed on your device is legitimate? Security researchers have discovered that legitimate downloads of several popular applications including WhatsApp, Skype, VLC Player and WinRAR have reportedly been compromised at the ISP level to….http://thehackernews.com/2017/09/gamma-finfisher-hacking-tool.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:%20TheHackersNews%20%28The%20Hackers%20News%20-%20Security%20Blog%29
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Embedi, a hardware security firm, has published details about two vulnerabilities that have yet to be patched in the firmware of D-Link routers. This marks the second incident of this sort in the last five days. Last Friday, South Korean security researcher Pierre Kim also published public….
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A Russian-speaking hacker has been infecting Netgear routers over the past months with a new strain of malware named RouteX that he uses to turn infected devices into SOCKS proxies and carry out credential stuffing attacks. According to Forkbombus Labs, the US cyber-security firm that uncovered this….http://www.securitynewspaper.com/2017/09/13/routex-malware-uses-netgear-routers-credential-stuffing-attacks/
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The Apache Software Foundation has responded to accusations that the massive data breach Equifax disclosed last week resulted from a flaw in Apache’s open source code. One of the largest financial data breaches in U.S. history, it exposed names, addresses, Social Security Numbers, birth dates,….http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/84801.html?rss=1
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