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16 Jan

Flight Booking System Flaw Affected Customers of 141 Airlines Worldwide

Almost half of the fight travelers around the world were found exposed to a critical security vulnerability discovered in online flight ticket booking system that allowed remote hackers to access and modify their travel details and even claim their frequent...
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15 Jan

Two Hackers Charged with Hacking SEC System in Stock-Trading Scheme

The U.S. authorities have charged two Ukrainian hackers for hacking into the Securities and Exchange Commission’s EDGAR filing system and stealing sensitive market-moving reports of companies before their public release. EDGAR, or Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval, is an...
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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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