Collaborate Disseminate
The city of Dallas, Texas believes computer hackers are responsible for setting off its emergency sirens more than a dozen times in just a few hours.
David Bisson reports.
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Payday loan company Wonga has confirmed that a security incident may have affected some of its customers’ personal and financial information. The Britain-based lender says it’s currently working to notify affected customers that the incident may have compromised their names, e-mail addresses, home addresses, phone numbers, the last four digits of their payment card number, […]… Read More
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A malvertising campaign is targeting iOS devices with a VPN that doesn’t hide the fact it collects large quantities of users’ information.
David Bisson reports.
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The Sathurbot backdoor trojan uses the lure of torrents to deliver a distributed brute-force attack against websites with weak WordPress administrator passwords.
David Bisson reports.
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We at The State of Security are committed to helping aspiring information security professionals reach their full potential. Towards that end, we compiled a list of the top 10 highest paying jobs in the industry. We even highlighted the U.S. cities tha… Continue reading 10 Respected Providers of IT Security Training
The Triada family of Android spyware is using the DroidPlugin open-source sandbox to evade detection by anti-virus software installed on infected devices.
David Bisson reports.
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The Triada family of Android spyware is using the DroidPlugin open-source sandbox to evade detection by anti-virus software installed on infected devices.
David Bisson reports.
Continue reading Triada Android spyware evades anti-virus detection by using DroidPlugin sandbox
U.S. discount brokerage firm Scottrade has confirmed that a third-party data breach inadvertently exposed 20,000 of its customers’ non-public information. On or around 1 April, security researcher Chris Vickery came across a 158.9GB Microsoft SQL database on the web. The database contained loan application information of a B2B unit within Scottrade along with the private […]… Read More
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The maker of an Internet of Things (IoT) garage door opener bricked a customer’s device after they posted a negative review on the product’s forum board.
David Bisson reports.
Continue reading Leave a bad review? This IoT garage door opener maker may brick your device
Hackers seized every one of a Brazilian bank’s 36 domains and leveraged their unauthorized access to push malware onto unsuspecting users. Kaspersky Lab first learned of the attack in October 2016. Researchers Fabio Assolini and Dmitry Bestuzhev at first thought it was just site hijacking. But they soon discovered that the bad actors had seized […]… Read More
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