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The Trump administration accused Russia on Thursday of engineering a series of cyberattacks that targeted American and European nuclear power plants and water and electric systems, and could have sabotaged or shut power plants off at will. United States officials Read More …
The suspected Vietnamese APT group OceanLotus has added a new backdoor to its repertoire of malicious tools – one that includes capabilities for enabling file, registry and process manipulation, and also downloading more malicious files. According a Mar. 13 blog post by ESET researcher Read More …
Researchers found critical vulnerabilities in three popular VPN services that could leak users’ real IP addresses and other sensitive data. VPN, or Virtual Private Network, is a great way to protect your daily online activities that work by encrypting your data Read More …
Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have discovered espionage malware that appears to have been developed by a government to spy on targets across Africa and the Middle East for the past six years. The researchers haven’t named Slingshot’s country of origin, Read More …
Brexit means Brexit, according to the prime minister, but with little more than a year until 29 March 2019 — the date the UK is due to depart the European Union — there are still many questions to be answered Read More …
The government wants to position the UK as a global leader in cybersecurity and make it one of the safest countries to do business. These aims were set out in its Cyber Security Export Strategy; a five year plan for the Read More …
A newly uncovered ‘nation-state level’ cyber espionage operation has targeted humanitarian aid organisations around the globe via the use of backdoors hidden within malicious Word documents. Dubbed Operation Honeybee based on the name of lure documents used during the attacks, Read More …
Tech firms said they welcome the government’s latest data protection plans, which could see an ongoing EU-level role for Britain’s information commissioner UK technology ndmpanies have welcomed a commitment by the government to seek a broader role for Britain in Read More …
Pivotal’s Spring Data REST project has a serious security hole that needs patching. Pivotal’s Spring Framework is a popular platform for building web apps. Spring Data REST is a collection of additional components for devs to build Java applications that Read More …
As location-aware advertising goes mainstream – like that Jack in the Box ad that appears whenever you get near one, in whichever app you have open at the time—and as popular apps harvest your lucrative location data, the potential for Read More …
