New World Hackers has claimed responsibility for taking down the U.S. swimmer’s website.
Group has only hit seven organizations in five years
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Thermostat security has been proved to be particularly vulnerable, with ransomware able to infect and run on it.
The US Government only holds “dozens” of vulnerabilities at any one time.
No doubt, DARPA’s Cyber Grand Challenge (CGC) will go down in history for advancing the state of the art in a variety of fields: symbolic execution, binary translation, and dynamic instrumentation, to name a few. But there is one contribution that we believe has been overlooked so far, and that may...
The white hats showed the potential to make surrounding objects “disappear” from the autopilot’s view.
Mayhem was created by a Pittsburgh-based team known as ForAllSecure—one of seven teams that competed for nearly $4 million.
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In the wake of its legal battle with the FBI over security vulnerabilities and access, Apple is launching its first-ever bug bounty program with potential payouts as large as USD$200,000.
Using data science, cybersecurity researchers have released a new approach that makes automated phishing exploits almost as fruitful as typically more time-consuming spear-phishing methods.
Imperva urges firms to implement safeguards
New info-stealing malware could be part of wider APT campaign
State-sponsored attacks and tool used have been observed to not be sophisticated, but activists remain in danger.
We can’t stop spending on cybersecurity in favour of cyber-insurance, say Deloitte researchers at Black Hat, Las Vegas
Law enforcement has become more aggressive because of encryption, as law enforcement become more eager to access details in investigations.
There is a non-technological solution to defending against phone scammers, said Dr Judith Tabron at Black Hat USA 2016, and it’s at the human level…
One hungry bear, this Zeus variant is targeting banks, Bitcoin users and local services, just as the country prepares to host the Olympic Games.
Stopping script-based attacks can often be an issue of using the protections that are available, and an anti-malware scan interface can help, says pen test expert at Black Hat
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