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Capital One Financial Corporation is an American bank specializing in credit cards, auto loans, banking and savings accounts. It has been charged with $80 million owing to a data breach that happened in July last year. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) informed about the fine in a Press Release. The OCC has…
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For any organization, its data is the most crucial entity that needs extensive protection, given the type of data breaches that are happening around the world. The attackers employ various ways to get access to the data. The novel Covid-19 has resulted in a substantial shift from a centralized network database to the remote cloud-based…
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A senior security consultant at Coalfire, Dan McInerney, published a three-part blog where he talks about the threats that modern-day IoT devices pose through an experiment. The experiment exposes the possibility of physical harm that the exploitation of these devices can cause even remotely. Such devices contain heating elements that can be weaponized by the attackers for…
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The Dark Reading recently interviewed Tohid Shekari, a Ph.D. candidate at Georgia Tech, concerning his work with Raheem Beyah about using the IoT botnets in a stealthy way for manipulating the energy markets. According to Tohid, IoT botnets have been recently used to attack the auto domains. The attacks started to emerge in the field…
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The United States of America will be having its presidential elections in November 2020. This is a crucial period when the intruders will be trying to compromise the critical information related to the campaigns for undermining the election process. During the 2016 Presidential elections, Russian hackers had leaked Hillary Clinton’s emails and documents to turn…
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The WhatsApp hack that has been in the news for a year has seen a recent spike in the number of attacks since the novel coronavirus pandemic has hit the world. An audio message of the recent hack victim Deepa Lekshmi went viral on WhatsApp, where she recounted her plight of her WhatsApp account being…
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A new vulnerability, named BootHole, has been discovered recently by two Eclypsium researchers, Mickey Shkatov and Jesse Michael, in the GRUB2 bootloader. Most Linux systems utilize GRUB2. It also supports other operating systems such as kernel and hypervisor. According to the release, almost all signed versions of GRUB2 are vulnerable, even if they have enabled…
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A Chinese virus named Taidoor has been recently reported as a potential threat by the US government in its Malware Analysis Report (MAR) jointly released by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Department of Defense (DoD). The virus poses a threat mainly because of its ever-evolving…
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The National Security Agency has recently issued an advisory about the threats imposed upon by the exposure of the location data of the users. The report vividly explains how the location data can be accessed via different mediums and what we, as users, can do to ensure minimum data breach.
Recently, a white paper has been released by researchers at the Center for Cyber Security, New York University, Abu Dhabi, which has introduced a new type of attack. The attack is claimed to be a more efficient version of the remote, timeless attack and is named as Timeless Timing attack. Conventionally in a remote timing…
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