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Honda Pauses Production Due to Cyberattack

The attack reportedly infected internal servers and forced Honda to halt production at plants around the world on Monday.

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Dark Basin Hack-For-Hire Group Targeted Thousands Over 7 Years

Thousands of journalists, advocacy groups and politicians worldwide were targeted by Dark Basin.

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CSO's Guide to 'Employee-First' Security Operations During COVID-19 & Beyond

As the work-at-home environment continues to inform new ways of doing business, it's important that security teams remain flexible and ready for change.

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KingMiner botnet brute-forces MSSQL databases to install cryptocurrency miner

The KingMiner gang is brute-forcing the "sa" user, the highest-privileged account on a MSSQL database.

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Malicious Android apps deactivated fraud code to bypass Google's security scans

Trick didn't work. Google banned them anyway.

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DARPA Launches Bug Bounty Program

Unlike most crowdsourced vulnerability-hunting projects, this one is targeted at hardware defenses.

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Chinese and Iranian APT Groups Targeted US Presidential Campaigns

Google analysts report advanced persistent threat groups linked to China and Iran launched phishing attacks against the Biden and Trump campaigns.

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Singapore’s Contact Tracing Wearable Causes Privacy Backlash

Thousands have signed a petition that underscores data privacy issues with Singapore's newly announced contact-tracing wearable, in development.

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Canada's Fitness Depot Alerts Customers to Data Breach

The retailer reports cybercriminals infected its online store and used a fraudulent form to steal shoppers' information.

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CallStranger vulnerability lets attacks bypass security systems and scan LANs

The CallStranger vulnerability can also be used to launch major DDoS attacks.

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SMBGhost RCE Exploit Threatens Corporate Networks

The release of a PoC for the Windows flaw known as "SMBGhost" could set off cyberattack waves, CISA warned.

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Phishing Attack Hits German Coronavirus Task Force

More than 100 executives at a multinational company that's part of a German task force for creating coronavirus protective gear, were targeted in an ongoing phishing attack.

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Safeguard Your Remote Workforce

DDoS attacks on VPN servers can not only bring remote work to a standstill but also cut off admins from accessing their systems. Here are three ways to stay safer.

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Apple hopes to bolster password security with open source project

The tech giant wants developers of password managers to collaborate for better user experience and security

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Can Governments Defeat Nation-State Attacks on Critical Infrastructures?

The one cyber risk that governments are much better at controlling than we are is insider threats. Governments have been dealing with people threats for centuries and have powerful tools at their disposal for such investigations.

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Vulnerabilities in popular open source projects doubled in 2019

Jenkins and MySQL vulnerabilities have had the most weaponized vulnerabilities in the past five years.

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Defense Contractor Compromised with MAZE Ransomware

Westech MAZE Ransomware Compromise; InfoSec News asks an Expert About the Fallout By William Knowles @c4i Senior Editor InfoSec News June 8, 2020 Troubling Cybersecurity/National Security news via Sky News, which is reporting that criminal hackers have stolen confidential information from Westech International. Westech serves as a U.S. military contractor for a number of Washington […]

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Owners of DDoS-for-Hire Service vDOS Get 6 Months Community Service

The co-owners of vDOS, a now-defunct service that for four years helped paying customers launch more than two million distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that knocked countless Internet users and websites offline, each have been sentenced to six months of community service by an Israeli court.

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Apple publishes free resources to improve password security

The new tools are meant to help the developers of password managers and Apple hopes the tools will reduce the instances where users chose their own password rather than rely on the password manager.

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Q&A: Eugene Spafford on the Risks of Internet Voting

Allowing people to cast their ballots online to circumvent coronavirus-related health concerns introduces problems that we simply don't know how to manage, says the Purdue University professor and security leader.