Security Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2020

The US DHS’s Homeland Threat Assessment (HTA) report revealed that threat actors have targeted the US Census network during the last year. The US Department of Homeland Security revealed that unknown threat actors have targeted the network of the US Census Bureau during the last year. The attacks were reported in the first Homeland Threat Assessment (HTA) report released earlier this week.

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Government Advertising Data collection Hacking 136

WIRED Threat Level

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Researchers found they could stop a Tesla by flashing a few frames of a stop sign for less than half a second on an internet-connected billboard.

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Internet Internet Hacking 120

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Tyler Technologies has finally decided to paid a ransom to obtain a decryption key and recover files encrypted in a recent ransomware attack. Tyler Technologies, Inc. is the largest provider of software to the United States public sector. At the end of September, the company disclosed a ransomware attack and its customers reported finding suspicious logins and previously unseen remote access tools on their networks.

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Technology Ransomware Encryption Advertising 134

WIRED Threat Level

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Privacy advocates warn that the Ring Always Home Cam and Amazon One both normalize aggressive new forms of data collection.

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Data collection 104

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2020

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. HP Device Manager flaws expose Windows systems to hack Visa shares details for two attacks on North American hospitality merchants Australian social news platform leaks 80,000 user records Experts warn of flaws in popular Antivirus solutions Hackers stole a six-figure amount from Swiss universities New Ttint IoT botnet exploits two zero-days in

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Advertising Antivirus Data privacy Ransomware 83

Trend Micro

OCTOBER 11, 2020

We recently observed an interesting payload deployment using the Metasploit Framework (MSF) against exposed Docker APIs.

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Cyber threats 84

The Security Ledger

OCTOBER 11, 2020

In this episode of the podcast (#190), sponsored by LastPass, Larry Cashdollar of Akamai joins us to talk about how finding his first CVE vulnerability, more than 20 years ago, nearly got him fired. Also: Katie Petrillo of LastPass joins us to talk about how some of the security adjustments we've made for COVID might not go away any time soon. Read the whole entry. » Related Stories Podcast Episode 189: AppSec for Pandemic Times, A Conversation with GitLab Security VP Jonathan Hunt Spotligh

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Engineering CISO Software Cybersecurity 52