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    09 Jan

    Newly Detected Snake Ransomware Targets All Connected Devices

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      A newly detected form of ransomware is not only targeting networks but in the case of a successful infection also encrypts all connected devices.   “Snake” ransomware was first detected by security researchers at MalwareHunterTeam last week and detailed by “ethical hacker” Vitali Kremez to reverse-engineer it. Kremez describes Snake as containing a higher level of obfuscation than is typical of previous forms of ransomware.   Snake removes a targeted computer’s Shadow Volume...

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    09 Jan

    Cyber Security Mistakes To Avoid In 2020

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      Time and again, the cybersecurity community keeps warning users about basic security practices. Yet, the criminals still succeed in targeting a large number of people almost every day due to some common blunders.   Nowadays it has become important for every internet user to avoid cybersecurity mistakes that happen routinely. Common Cybersecurity Mistakes To Avoid Below we list some common yet dangerous cybersecurity mistakes that everyone should...

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    07 Jan

    Cybercriminals Adopt Steganography-Based Credit Card Skimmer To Steal Payment Card Details

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      The web crawlers and scanners mostly concentrate on HTML and JavaScript files and often ignore media files. Threat actors are particularly using WebSockets to provide a more covert way to exchange data than typical HTTP request-responses.   Steganography has long been used by malware authors to hide malicious data within legitimate-looking images and currently, it is being used by cybercriminals to spread credit card skimmers.     What is...

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    07 Jan

    Xiaomi Cameras Connected to Google Nest Expose Video Feeds From Others

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    Internet-connected devices have been one of the most remarkable developments that have happened to humankind in the last decade. Although this development is a good thing, it also stipulates a high security and privacy risk to personal information.   In one such recent privacy mishap, smart IP cameras manufactured by Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi found mistakenly sharing surveillance footage of Xiaomi users with other random users without...

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    03 Jan

    7 Types Of Virus – A Short Glossary Of Contemporary Cyber Badness

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      OK, technically, this article is about malware in general, not about viruses in particular. Strictly speaking, virus refers to a type of malware that spreads by itself, so that once it’s in your system, you may end up with hundreds or even thousands of infected files…   …on every computer in your network, and in the networks your network can see, and so on, and so on. These...

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    23 Dec

    267 Million Facebook Users Personal Data Exposed On The Internet For A 10-day Period

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      A security researcher reported finding a database with the names, phone numbers and unique user IDs of more than 267 million Facebook users — nearly all U.S.-based — on the open internet. The data were likely harvested by criminals, said researcher Bob Diachenko, an independent security consultant.   The database, which Diachenko discovered with a search engine, was freely accessible online for at least 10 days beginning...

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    23 Dec

    Personal Data of MINDEF, SAF Personnel Potentially Affected; 2 Vendors Hit By Malware

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      SINGAPORE: The personal data of 2,400 Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) and Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) personnel may be affected by a potential ST Logistics personal data breach.   ST Logistics said in a media release on Saturday (Dec 21) that the potential breach was a result of a recent series of email phishing activities involving malicious malware sent to its employees’ email accounts.   “This data, contained in working files...

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    19 Dec

    Most Common Passwords Found From Breaches in 2019

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      Researchers analysed data leaked in various data breaches to bring this study forward.   Passwords ‘12345,’ ‘123456,’ and ‘123456789’ were the most common passwords, followed by ‘test1’ and, of course the password ‘password’.   A bunch of independent anonymous researchers composed a list of 200 most popular passwords that were leaked in data breaches during 2019 and shared it with security firm NordPass.     What Researchers Found?   NordPass collected and...

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    17 Dec

    How Government Data Incidents Could Have Been Prevented

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      The impact of past breaches of government data would have been minimized - or the incidents even prevented - if data security measures announced yesterday had been in place, said Senior Minister Teo Chee Hean. These various data security incidents, like the cyber attack on SingHealth last year which saw the data of 1.5 million people stolen, had prompted the Government to set up the...

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