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The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, a 640-room hotel in Las Vegas, has warned payment cards may have been compromised over an eight-month period ending early last month. Law enforcement has been notified, and the attack has been stopped, according to a notice on its website. The company is notifying customers, and its notification letter […] more…Department of Justice will review how it deploys cell phone snooping tech
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is going to pull back the curtain and conduct a formal review of how, when, and why it uses mobile phone surveillance devices, commonly known as stingrays, according to a report Sunday evening from the Wall Street Journal. However, the DOJ has yet to determine exactly when and how this […] more…Amazon is testing Tesla’s new energy storage batteries in California
Amazon Web Services, the largest public cloud around, has started a pilot of the new stackable battery units Tesla unveiled today, under the new Tesla Energy brand. “We’re excited to roll out a 4.8 megawatt hour pilot of Tesla’s energy storage batteries in our US West (Northern California) Region,” James Hamilton, distinguished engineer at AWS, […] more…Tesla is set to announce a home battery tomorrow
This week, Tesla invited journalists to an announcement at the company’s base in Hawthorne, California, in which Elon Musk is expected to give details about a new product unrelated to his line of electric cars. Tesla’s next big thing is widely believed to be a stationary battery, which will power homes, offices, and industrial spaces […] more…There’s a new messaging app based on ‘Breaking Bad’ character Hector Salamanca’s iconic bell
If you’re a “Breaking Bad” fan, you probably remember the wheelchair-bound, DEA-hating character Hector “Tio” Salamanca, best known for his habit of ringing a small bell to communicate — one ding meant yes, two dings meant no. Well, it turns out that somebody decided to take that idea of bell-based communication and turn it into […] more…Enterprises Hit by BARTALEX Macro Malware in Recent Spam Outbreak
Enterprises are currently being targeted by the macro malware BARTALEX in a recent outbreak of thousands of spammed emails. The infection routine for BARTALEX uses a Microsoft Word document and social engineering lure that is widely recognized by enterprises—making infection all too possible. This attack highlights how macro malware in Microsoft Office files is fast becoming […] more…Huawei eyes U.S. enterprise market despite political challenges
Past political trouble in the U.S. isn’t stopping Huawei Technologies from selling its enterprise services in the country. The Chinese company, which was labeled a U.S. national security threat in 2012, has been effectively blocked from selling telecommunication gear to U.S. carriers. Government officials there are concerned about Huawei’s alleged ties with the Chinese government, […] more…CozyDuke, TLP: White
This whitepaper provides an overview of CozyDuke, a set of tools used by one or more malicious actors for performing targeted attacks against high profile organizations, such as governmental organizations and other entities that work closely with these institutions. The CozyDuke toolset, which we believe has been under active development since at least 2011, consists […] more…Blackberry wants to lock down security for the Internet of Things
BlackBerry Ltd said on Tuesday it is launching a new certificate service that will help bring the security level it offers on smartphones to a slew of devices from cars to smart meters. Certicom, a subsidiary of BlackBerry and an industry pioneer in elliptic curve cryptography, announced a new offering that it contends will secure […] more…‘No iOS Zone’ Wi-Fi zero-day bug forces iPhones, iPads to crash and burn
Adi Sharabani and Yair Amit have revealed a zero-day vulnerability in iOS 8 that, when exploited by a malicious wireless hotspot, will repeatedly crash nearby Apple iPhones, iPads and iPods. The Skycure bods say the attack, dubbed “No iOS Zone”, will render vulnerable iOS things within range unstable – or even entirely unusable by triggering […] more…PayPal exec’s crazy edible password alternative
To Jonathan LeBlanc, global head of developer advocacy at PayPal, the problem is simple: “Passwords are not secure, they need to be replaced.” That’s the basic premise of a presentation he’s giving at tech gatherings around the world called “Kill All Passwords.” “Passwords are so complex it’s just a system that doesn’t work anymore,” said […] more…Twitter accounts outside of the US now fall under EU data protection rules
Twitter revised its privacy policy over the weekend, changing where it handles the account information of users outside the U.S. and clarifying some points. As of Saturday, account information for Twitter users outside the U.S. is handled by Twitter International in Dublin, Ireland. This means that all account information will be subject to Irish privacy […] more…Your city’s not smart if it’s vulnerable, says hacker
“Real world hacker” Cesar Cerrudo has blasted vendors, saying they’re stopping security researchers from testing smart city systems, and as a result they’re being sold with dangerous unchecked vulnerabilities. The warning will be detailed at RSA San Francisco this week, and comes a year after the IOActive chief technology officer found some 200,000 vulnerable traffic […] more…Operation Pawn Storm Ramps Up its Activities; Targets NATO, White House
Long-running APT campaign Operation Pawn Storm has begun the year with a bang, introducing new infrastructure and zeroing in on targets including North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) members and even the White House. This is according to the latest intelligence gleaned from Trend Micro’s ongoing research into the attack group, and comes as a follow-up […] more…Google offering TEN grants to women researchers attending HITB Security Conference in Amsterdam
As part of Google’s continued commitment to encourage women to excel in computing and technology, Google is offering ten grants to women in security to attend the Hack In The Box Security Conference in Amsterdam at the end of May. Tags: HITB2015AMS HITB Industry News Google more…BitTorrent’s audacious P2P-powered Maelstrom browser enters public beta
In December BitTorrent announced its plan to radically change how we use the Internet with Project Maelstrom, a browser that retrieves Web content from peer-to-peer-distributed torrents instead of traditional servers. Now the company is ready to give us an early look at its work. On Friday, Project Maelstrom for Windows enters public beta and is […] more…More information
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