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19 Oct

Critical Flaws Found in Amazon FreeRTOS IoT Operating System

A security researcher has discovered several critical vulnerabilities in one of the most popular embedded real-time operating systems—called FreeRTOS—and its other variants, exposing a wide range of IoT devices and critical infrastructure systems to hackers. What is FreeRTOS (Amazon, WHIS...
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18 Aug

Local #company’s #system #hacked; employee #info #stolen

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Green Bay Police say they are investigating the hacking of a local corporation’s computer network, resulting in the theft of “significant amounts of money” from victims in the organization. Police did...
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12 Jul

Hacker Puts Airport’s Security System Access On Dark Web Sale For Just $10

If you can’t find it on Google, you will definitely find it on the Dark Web. Black markets on the Dark web are not known for just buying drugs, it is a massive hidden network where you can buy pretty...
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29 May

Critical RCE Flaw Discovered in Blockchain-Based EOS Smart Contract System

Security researchers have discovered a series of new vulnerabilities in EOS blockchain platform, one of which could allow remote hackers to take complete control over the node servers running the critical blockchain-based applications. EOS is an open source smart contract...
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31 Mar

Hack of #Baltimore’s 911 #dispatch system was #ransomware #attack, city #officials say

The hack that forced Baltimore’s 911 dispatch system to be temporarily shut down over the weekend was a ransomware attack, city officials said Wednesday. Such attacks — another of which occurred in Atlanta last week — take over parts of...
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27 Mar

Intel #Chairman: Election #Cybersecurity Fixes ‘Might Not be in #Time to Save the #System’

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen told senators that most states are being cooperative with the whole-of-government effort to protect voting systems from cyberintrusions, though there are two unnamed states “who aren’t working with us as much as we would like...
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13 Mar

Will Your #Cybersecurity Defense #System Protect Your #Organization?

For a homeowner, the knowledge that a trained eye has evaluated the home security system — and attested that it is in good working order — can go a long way toward a good night’s sleep. The same goes for...
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26 Feb

New York is #quietly working to #prevent a major #cyber attack that could bring down the #financial #system

Source: National Cyber Security News Five months before the 9/11 attacks, US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld sent a memo to one of his advisers with an ominous message. “Cyberwar,” read the subject line. “Please take a look at this...
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15 Jan

OnePlus Site’s Payment System Reportedly Hacked to Steal Credit Card Details

This year’s first bad news for OnePlus users—a large number of OnePlus customers are reporting of fraudulent credit card transactions after buying products from the Chinese smartphone manufacturer’s official online store. The claim initially surfaced on the OnePlus support forum...
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1 Jan

Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans General Cybersecurity Conference February 18 – 21, 2018 | San Diego, California, United States Cybersecurity Conference Description NDSS fosters information exchange among researchers and practitioners of network and distributed system security. The...
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