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> SamSam Attackers Have Hit 67 Ransomware Targets
Symantec claims 56 US firms have been hit this year
> Eurostar Resets Passwords After Attack
Train operator takes precautions following attempts to access accounts
> How contract migration works
Smart contracts can be compromised: they can have bugs, the owner’s wallet can be stolen, or they can be trapped due to an incorrect setting. If you develop a smart contract for your business, you must be prepared to react to events such as these. In many cases, the only available solution is to dep...
> FIFA Braced for Revelations After Breach
Attackers not thought to be Kremlin-linked
> #SecuringEnterprise: Old Strategies Don't Work
At MIT CSAIL’s Securing the Enterprise conference, BT Security president says risk is changing all the time.
> The Good, the Bad, and the Weird
Let’s automatically identify weird machines in software. Combating software exploitation has been a cat-and-mouse game ever since the Morris worm in 1988. Attackers use specific exploitation primitives to achieve unintended code execution. Major software vendors introduce exploit mitigation to break...
> #SecuringEnterprise: Talking Risk to Boards
Boards of directors need to think about cybersecurity as an existential crisis.
> #SecuringEnterprise: Facing Threats Then and Now
Security experts share advice learned through their experience in dealing with the changing threat landscape.
> A Guide to Post-Quantum Cryptography
For many high-assurance applications such as TLS traffic, medical databases, and blockchains, forward secrecy is absolutely essential. It is not sufficient to prevent an attacker from immediately decrypting sensitive information. Here the threat model encompasses situations where the adversary may d...
> US Indicts Chinese Spies and Insiders for Aviation Theft
Hackers were allegedly helped by IT security boss at French aerospace firm
> UK Law Firm Preps Cathay Pacific Class Action
Lawyers claim airline owes customers compensation
> Slither – a Solidity static analysis framework
Slither is the first open-source static analysis framework for Solidity. Slither is fast and precise; it can find real vulnerabilities in a few seconds without user intervention. It is highly customizable and provides a set of APIs to inspect and analyze Solidity code easily. We use it in all of our...
> Brain Freeze: Researchers Warn Hackers Could Target Our Minds
Kaspersky Lab and Oxford University take their cue from Black Mirror
> Malware Targeting Smartphones via Three DSP Providers
The Media Trust discovered the JuiceChecker-3PC malware campaign. There's not much hope for smartphone security, says Bruce Schneier.
> Introduction to Verifiable Delay Functions (VDFs)
Finding randomness on the blockchain is hard. A classic mistake developers make when trying to acquire a random value on-chain is to use quantities like future block hashes, block difficulty, or timestamps. The problem with these schemes is that they are vulnerable to manipulation by miners. For exa...
> Cyber Is a Boardroom Issue in 2018
The "2018 Cyber Balance Sheet" finds boardrooms are talking about cyber risk.
> States Average a C- in Election Security
There is still serious risk but signs of improvement for election security, says the Center for Strategic & International Studies.
> UK Construction Firms Hemorrhage Log-Ins to Dark Web
RepKnight finds hundreds of thousands of credentials up for sale
> GDPR Alert as Average ICO Fines Double in a Year
Latest stats show total value increased 24%
> US Bans Exports to Chinese DRAM-Maker
Micron rival put on Entity List after suspected IP theft