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Compromising vital infrastructure: transport and logistics

November 6, 2018 admin Business, cyberattacks, cybercrime, hacking, Infrastructure, logistics, NotPetya, phishing, prevent ransomware attacks, protection, ransomware, transport, WannaCry

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2018 18:05:11 +0000

Transport and logistics are vital infrastructure, because we need them to deliver our daily necessities, but who is responsible for protecting them?

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Cyber-Attacks: How to Stop a Multibillion-Dollar Problem

November 5, 2018 admin atm, Business, cyberattacks, cybercrime, jackpotting, Security

Credit to Author: Ed Cabrera (Chief Cybersecurity Officer)| Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2018 14:00:41 +0000

By Ed Cabrera, Chief Cybersecurity Officer for Trend Micro and Martin Bally, Vice President & Chief Security Officer for Diebold Nixdorf Where there’s money, there has always been crime. Traditional bank robbery and physical assaults on ATMs are still a challenge, and now a new breed of cyber-enabled theft—using ATMs as the endpoint for cash-outs— has become a multibillion-dollar…

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Tomorrowland festival goers affected by data breach

October 31, 2018 admin breach, cybercrime, data breach, hacking, music, music festival, paylogic, phishing, privacy, scams, Tomorrowland

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 17:27:32 +0000

A data breach from a 2014 Tomorrowland electronic music festival has affected up to 60,000 event-goers caught up in the action.

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Tags: breach data breach hacking music music festival paylogic phishing scams Tomorrowland

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Extending Public-Private Partnerships with Milipol

October 30, 2018 admin cybercrime, Cyberthreat, Milipol, Security

Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 16:04:46 +0000

By: Loïc Guézo At Trend Micro, we’ve been protecting consumers, SMBs, enterprises and government customers from the latest threats for three decades now. This has required us to build a global team of experienced researchers, state-of-the-art R&D labs and much more, to fuel our industry-leading cybersecurity solutions. We also understand that there’s a bigger picture…

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Mobile Menace Monday: top five scariest mobile threats

October 29, 2018 admin adups, Android, Android ransomware, cybercrime, guerrilla, Hidden Ads, mobidash, Mobile, mobile menace monday, Mobile ransomware, mobile threats, triple m

Credit to Author: Nathan Collier| Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2018 15:00:00 +0000

In the spirit of this upcoming Halloween season, we thought we’d provide you with a list of the top five scariest mobile threats in our book.

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Huge breach affects 9 million Cathay Pacific customers

October 25, 2018 admin Airline, breach, British Airways, British Airways case, cathay pacific, Cathy Pacific, cybercrime, data, privacy

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 17:57:20 +0000

Airline company Cathay Pacific revealed that a huge breach took place in March 2018, affecting around 9 million customers. We take a look at some of the potential fallout.

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Tags: airline breach British Airways British Airways case cathay pacific Cathy Pacific data

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Compromising vital infrastructure: how voting machines and elections are vulnerable

October 23, 2018 admin compromising voting machines, cybercrime, denial-of-service attacks, Elections, hacking, Infrastructure, machines, voting, voting machines

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2018 12:00:00 +0000

What are our options for secure and honest election results? Should we be using voting machines or are there better alternatives?

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Tags: compromising voting machines Denial of Service attacks elections infrastructure machines voting Voting machines

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Information operations on Twitter: new data released on election tampering

October 18, 2018 admin 2016 US elections, cybercrime, datasets, election tampering, fake stories, Iran, Russia, Russian Facebook ads, Social engineering, Twitter

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2018 15:00:00 +0000

New information released by Twitter sheds fresh light on the various professional troll campaigns deployed alongside the 2016 presidential elections.

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Tags: 2016 US elections datasets election tampering fake stories iran russia Russian Facebook ads Social Engineering twitter

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