Daily Archives: March 17, 2018

Chinese APT Group TEMP.Periscope targets US Engineering and Maritime Industries

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Hackers awarded $267,000 at Pwn2Own 2018, was far less than in the past editions

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Popular Hacker Adrian Lamo, known for the case Chelsea Manning, is dead

This entry was posted in SecurityNews on March 17, 2018 by Inspector

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Leaky database spills data on 20 million Ecuadorians and businesses

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Common storage and router devices are still hopelessly broken

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Teenage gamer jailed over lethal swatting

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Robocalls now flooding US phones with 200m calls per day

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Marc Rogers: Success of Anonymous Bug Submission Program ‘Takes A Village’

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IRS Emails Promise a Refund But Deliver Botnet Recruitment

The fake emails direct victims to log into a bogus IRS site. [...]

Rethinking Responsibilities and Remedies in Social-Engineering Attacks

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Emotet Returns from Summer Vacation, Ramps Up Stolen Email Tactic

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Edward Snowden Sued by U.S. Over New Memoir

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New! RFP Template for Selecting EDR/EPP and APT Security

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Misconfigured WS-Discovery in devices enable massive DDoS amplification

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Secrets of latest Smominru botnet variant revealed in new attack

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HITB+CyberWeek: Region's Largest Cybersecurity Forum to be Held in Abu Dhabi Starting 12 October

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Cyber Battle of the Emirates: Training UAE's next generation of cyber security pros

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WordPress XSS Bug Allows Drive-By Code Execution

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I Could Have Hacked All Uber Accounts- But I Chose to Report it Instead

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SIM card exploit could be spying on over 1 billion mobile phone users globally

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Daily Archives: March 17, 2018

Chinese APT Group TEMP.Periscope targets US Engineering and Maritime Industries

Hackers awarded $267,000 at Pwn2Own 2018, was far less than in the past editions

Popular Hacker Adrian Lamo, known for the case Chelsea Manning, is dead