Collaborate Disseminate
In this Help Net Security interview, Robert Ramsey, CEO at Rain Technology, discusses the growing threat of visual hacking, how it bypasses traditional cybersecurity measures, and the importance of physical barriers like switchable privacy screens. Cou… Continue reading The growing danger of visual hacking and how to protect against it
RansomHub ransomware group leaks alleged 487 GB of sensitive data stolen from Kawasaki Motors Europe (KME), following a… Continue reading RansomHub Ransomware Gang Leaks 487GB of Alleged Kawasaki Europe Data
Tracelo, a smartphone geolocation tracker service, was breached on September 1, 2024, exposing data from both its customers… Continue reading Tracelo Location Tracker Data Breach: 1.4 Million Users’ Data Dumped Online
The group’s side hustle may not have explicit permission from its Iranian government sponsor.
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This is yet another insecure Internet-of-things story, this one about wireless gear shifters for bicycles. These gear shifters are used in big-money professional bicycle races like the Tour de France, which provides an incentive to actually implement t… Continue reading Hacking Wireless Bicycle Shifters
When an airplane crashes, impartial investigatory bodies leap into action, empowered by law to unearth what happened and why. But there is no such empowered and impartial body to investigate CrowdStrike’s faulty update that recently unfolded, ensnarling banks, airlines, and emergency services to the tune of billions of dollars. We need one. To be sure, there is the White House’s Cyber Safety Review Board. On March 20, the CSRB released a report into last summer’s intrusion by a Chinese hacking group into Microsoft’s cloud environment, where it compromised the U.S. Department of Commerce, State Department, congressional offices, and several associated companies. But the board’s report—well-researched and containing some good and actionable recommendations—shows how it suffers from its lack of subpoena power and its political unwillingness to generalize from specific incidents to the broader industry…
Federal prosecutors announced the indictment Thursday of a North Korean hacker accused of carrying out ransomware operations that targeted American health care facilities and used the proceeds of those operations to fund espionage efforts against the U.S. military and defense contractors. Rim Jong Hyok is accused of using malware developed by North Korea’s military intelligence […]
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FIN7, a notorious cybercrime gang, is back with a new bag of tricks! Learn about FIN7’s evolving tactics,… Continue reading FIN7 Cybercrime Gang Evolves with Ransomware and Hacking Tools
Some scholars are inflating their reference counts by sneaking them into metadata:
Citations of scientific work abide by a standardized referencing system: Each reference explicitly mentions at least the title, authors’ names, publication year, journal or conference name, and page numbers of the cited publication. These details are stored as metadata, not visible in the article’s text directly, but assigned to a digital object identifier, or DOI—a unique identifier for each scientific publication.
References in a scientific publication allow authors to justify methodological choices or present the results of past studies, highlighting the iterative and collaborative nature of science…
AT&T confirms a data breach exposing call and text records for “Nearly All” customers from May 2022 to… Continue reading AT&T Data Breach: Hackers Steal Call and Text Records for “Nearly All” Customers