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More and more, ransomware attacks are targeting one specific industry – health care. As detailed in our McAfee Labs Threats Report: March 2018, health care experienced a dramatic 210% overall increase in cyber incidents in 2017. Unfortunately, 2018 is showing no signs of slowing. In fact, just this week it was revealed that patient records […] more…Popular Social Media App Timehop Hit With Huge Data Breach
The Fourth of July is characterized by barbeques, fireworks, and patriotism – and now cyberattacks! Just this past Independence Day, the popular social media app Timehop was hacked – as cybercriminals set their sights on the company’s servers, rather than enjoying hot dogs and sparklers. The attack affects a whopping 21 million Timehop users and […] more…Saks, Lord & Taylor Stores Hit by Data Breach
A data breach at Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor stores in North America exposed customer payment card data, parent company Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) announced on Sunday. The hack, which also impacted its discount store brand Saks OFF 5TH, did not appear to affect HBC’s e-commerce or other digital platforms. “We identified the […] more…Ransomware Hits City of Atlanta
A ransomware attack — possibly a variant of SamSam — has affected some customer-facing applications and some internal services at the City of Atlanta. The FBI and incident response teams from Microsoft and Cisco are investigating. The city’s police department, water services and airport are not affected. The attack was detected early on Thursday morning. […] more…Taiwan Hit With Micropayment Fraud via Android Malware
In our 1Q Threat roundup report, we noted that the number of mobile malware and high-risk applications reached the two-million mark and is rapidly growing. In our monitoring of the mobile threat landscape, we have recently discovered an Android malware that is spreading fast in Taiwan, detected as ANDROIDOS_RUSMS.A. Mobile users fall victim via SMS spam attack. Users receive […] more…Banking Trojan Trend Hits Japan Hard
In its recent report, National Police Agency mentioned that the current estimated total cost of unauthorized transactions suffered by Japanese users reached 1.417 billion yen during the period of January-May 2014. In comparison the estimated total damage cost from these kinds of threats was 1.406 billion yen in 2013. Data released by Japanese Bankers Association also gives […] more…NSA Revelations Cast Doubt on the Entire Tech Industry
Six years ago, two Microsoft cryptography researchers discovered some weirdness in an obscure cryptography standard authored by the National Security Agency. There was a bug in a government-standard random number generator that could be used to encrypt data. The researchers, Dan Shumow and Niels Ferguson, found that the number generator appeared to have been built […] more…Hit the brakes! Did Your Car Just Get Hacked?
Could your car be the next target of a cyber attack? You might not think so, but new research has shown otherwise. The overall safety of your vehicle used to be rather straightforward to maintain with tune-ups, replaced brake pads, flushes and other scheduled upkeep. Unfortunately, with the incorporation of computer systems into newer car […] more…Cross site scripting (XSS) Research Paper By Aarshit Mittal and Harsha Vardhan Boppana
Cross site scripting (XSS) By Aarshit Mittal and Harsha Vardhan BoppanaCross site scripting is a web application based attack generally found in online services, pages of the websites the attack is a temporary attack but can be used by a black hat hacker or a financial cyber fraud for a permanent attack on user’s confidential data. […] more…Cross site scripting (XSS) Research Paper By Aarshit Mittal and Harsha Vardhan Bopanna
Cross site scripting (XSS) By Aarshit Mittal and Harsha Vardhan BopannaCross site scripting is a web application based attack generally found in online services, pages of the websites the attack is a temporary attack but can be used by a black hat hacker or a financial cyber fraud for a permanent attack on user’s confidential […] more…12 tricks for more efficient Android texting
No matter what type of Android phone you carry or how you usually use it, one thing is a near-universal constant: You’re gonna spend a ton of time messing with messages. The messages may be from clients, colleagues, or your cousin Crissy from Cleveland (damn it, Crissy!). But regardless of who sends ’em or what […] more…Meta’s next big AI bet is enterprise; its biggest hurdle may be trust
Meta is once again repositioning itself to target the enterprise market. This week, the company announced the Meta Enterprise Platform, which it says will evolve its AI stack into products and services that enterprises can deploy into operations, rather than just using them for advertising and social media campaigns. While the company provided few details […] more…Microsoft’s new Copilot ‘super app’ unifies chat, code, agents
Microsoft’s Copilot “super app” has arrived, two months after CEO Satya Nadella confirmed it was in development. It combines conversational Chat, the autonomous Cowork agent, a redesigned coding environment named Code, and Autopilot, the persistent agent formerly known as Scout, into a single Copilot experience. The idea is to make those capabilities look less like […] more…8 cool things Copilot can do in Word
We all know by now that Copilot can help you write and rewrite text in Word, often with mediocre results. But there’s more to Microsoft’s generative AI tool than just slopping out words. In fact, Copilot’s most useful features in Word have more to do with editing, formatting, and research assistance than with writing per […] more…Hello, Googlebook: The complete FAQ on Google’s Android-ChromeOS combo
Googlebook, Googlebook, Googlebook. Google’s mysterious new Android- and ChromeOS-combining laptops have been the talk of the town here in the land o’ Googley matters for much of this year already — and their name also makes for an incredibly challenging tongue-twister to say, as an added layer of intrigue. (Seriously: Try saying it 10 times […] more…Qualcomm’s next Snapdragon mobile chip comes into focus with on-device AI
Qualcomm is taking an unusual approach to the launch of its next-generation premium Snapdragon mobile platform this year. Instead of holding everything for its annual Snapdragon Summit in Maui happening later this month, the company has been methodically disclosing the architecture that will power the next wave of flagship Android phones over the past couple […] more…More information
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