A malicious software tool perhaps most famously used to hack RSA's SecurID infrastructure is still being used in targeted attacks, according to security vendor FireEye. Poison Ivy is a remote access trojan (RAT) that was released eight ...
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Last week's attack on the Virgin Radio Dubai website could have provided cyber-criminals with a springboard from which to launch targeted attacks, according to a researcher from Kaspersky Lab. The popular music station's website was taken ...
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More than one in four Wi-Fi networks in London are poorly secured or not secured at all, a scanning experiment by security firm Sophos has revealed. The experiment was conducted over two days by the firm’s director of technology ...
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KPN closed a self-service portal for corporate ADSL customers on Tuesday after it discovered that 120,000 of its 180,000 business clients were still using default passwords, all variants of "welkom01," a company spokesman said Friday. The ...
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Cyber security at the US government's largest renewable power transmission agency has been found wanting by an Energy Department inspector general. The Western Area Power Administration (WAPA), which sells and transmits power through ...
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Computerworld-In the biggest data compromise of the year,Social Security Numbers(SSN)belonging to about 3.6 million residents in South Carolina have been exposed in an intrusion into a computer at the state's Department of Revenue. ...
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Two security researchers claim to have developed a new attack that can decrypt session cookies from HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) connections. Websites use session cookies to remember authenticated users. If an attacker gains ...
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Computerworld-The U.S.Department of Homeland Security(DHS)has issued an alert warning of vulnerabilities in a software technology called the Niagara AX Framework,used to manage millions of devices over the Internet. The alert,from the ...
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