App Store Flooded with Phony Retail Apps to Kick Off Holiday Season
The holiday season has officially kicked off, which means a number of things for many of us: seasonal cheer, quality time with loved ones, and admittedly for many, lots and lots of shopping. And these days, many of holiday retail sales are happening online. Unfortunately, that also means now more than ever, there’s more holiday-related […] more…Teaching Kids to Rise Above the Twitter Trolls
The social media platform Twitter has been making the headlines every day lately and not for good reasons. The popular 140-character driven network is under fire for its increasingly troll-heavy content and its failure to regulate abusive tweeters. From celebrities shutting down accounts to politicians and special interest groups daily (and very publically) engaged in […] more…How to Secure the Future of the Internet of Things
The world of security for the Internet of Things just became more complex. IoT devices are no longer a potential threat to their owners; now they pose a significant threat to everything connected to the Internet. The old IoT security problem For the past year, the cybersecurity and IoT communities have been at odds regarding […] more…Journalists must fork over $200 for Wi-Fi at presidential debate
News organizations attending Monday evening’s presidential debate must pay $200 for a “Secure Wireless Internet Connection” at Hofstra University in New York state. The debate is set to begin at 9pm Eastern. While profiteering during a high-profile occasion such as this is not unheard of—$15 for a patch cable?—what’s worse is that event staff at […] more…Resolved: Wireless Authentication Degradation
From 9:49 until 10:30 some users may have experienced issues connecting to the wireless environment. The cause was one of the authentication servers, RADIUS, had stopped responding to requests. It was restarted at 10:30 and things have been working normally since. ITS is looking into why the server stopped responding. The areas that may have […] more…Google Safe Browsing gives more details to compromised website owners
Google is now providing more information to website owners whose online properties are temporarily blocked as unsafe by its Safe Browsing technology as a way to help them fix the identified problems faster. Google Safe Browsing is a technology used by Google’s search engine, the Google Chrome browser, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, and Android to […] more…Can Internet of Things be the New Frontier for Cyber Extortion?
The Internet of Things (IoT)—the network of devices embedded with capabilities to collect and exchange information—has long been attracting the attention of cybercriminals as it continues to gain momentum in terms of its adoption. Gartner has estimated that more than 20.8 billion IoT devices will be in use by 2020; IoT will be leveraged by […] more…Reward: $15K for nastiest Edge browser bugs
Microsoft today launched another bug bounty for Edge, the default browser within Windows 10. The award program is similar to one Microsoft ran from April to June 2015 for the then-named Spartan. Microsoft officially rebranded Spartan as Edge in late April. Bounties of up to $15,000 will be paid for remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities […] more…The Jeep hackers return to ditch a car going 60 mph
The new attack can spin a steering wheel 90 degrees and get you into a ditch, or worse, at any speed more…Hackers Hijack a Big Rig Truck’s Accelerator and Brakes
When cybersecurity researchers showed in recent years that they could hack a Chevy Impala or a Jeep Cherokee to disable the vehicles’ brakes or hijack their steering, the results were a disturbing wakeup call to the consumer automotive industry. But industrial automakers are still due for a reminder that they, too, are selling vulnerable computer […] more…Fiat Chrysler launches Detroit’s first bug bounty program for car hackers
It’s the first of the big three US auto makers to grab the steering wheel on this whole find-vulnerabilities, steer-a-car-into-a-ditch endeavor. more…Microsoft invokes Supreme Court opinion in Ireland email case
Microsoft believes its refusal to turn over email held in Ireland to the U.S. government got a boost from an opinion of the Supreme Court on Monday, which upheld that U.S. laws cannot apply extraterritorially unless Congress has explicitly provided for it. In a decision Monday in a separate case on the extraterritorial application of […] more…Got privacy? If you use Twitter or a smartphone, maybe not so much
The notion of online privacy has been greatly diminished in recent years, and just this week two new studies confirm what to many minds is already a dismal picture. First, a study reported on Monday by Stanford University found that smartphone metadata — information about calls and text messages, such as time and length — can […] more…Networks need automation — just ask the U.S. military
IT professionals are looking to software-defined networking to automate what are still complex and vulnerable systems controlled by human engineers. Major General Sarah Zabel knows where they’re coming from. Zabel is the vice director of the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), which provides IT support for all U.S. combat operations. Soldiers, officers, drones, and the […] more…Traffic Studies Reveal Complex Picture of Tor’s Role on ‘Dark Web’
For a week in March, Website security firm CloudFlare analyzed the traffic hitting its customers’ sites from the anonymous Tor Network. The results of the study illustrate the double-edged nature of online anonymity. The Tor Network—a peer-to-peer collection of volunteered servers linked together to create an anonymizing Web service—allows people in oppressive countries to surf […] more…Your car’s computers might soon get malware protection
Modern cars contain tens of specialized computers that control everything from infotainment functions to steering and brakes. The pressing need to protect these computers from hackers will likely open up a new market for car-related software security products. Karamba Security, a start-up based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is one of the companies that has stepped […] more…More information
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