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4 May

New Malware Jumps Air-Gapped Devices by Turning Power-Supplies into Speakers

A researcher from Israel’s Ben Gurion University of the Negev recently demonstrated a new kind of malware that could be used to covertly steal highly sensitive data from air-gapped and audio-gapped systems using a novel acoustic quirk in power supply...
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23 Apr

Hackers Trick 3 British Private Equity Firms Into Sending Them $1.3 Million

In a recent highly targeted BEC attack, hackers managed to trick three British private equity firms into wire-transferring a total of $1.3 million to the bank accounts fraudsters have access to — while the victimized executives thought they closed an...
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19 Apr

Bad Dates of Melbourne founder turned horror love life into lucrative business | #tinder | #pof

A single writer who was inspired to create a blog after a string of bad dates has been bombarded with messages from women detailing their horror experiences with bed-wetters, mummy’s boys and men who clip their toenails on a first...
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15 Apr

How to transform your revolutionary idea into a reality: $100K Nokia Bell Labs Prize

Revolutionary ideas in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics don’t occur every day. But when those “eureka” moments happen, we need to provide a forum to explore those ideas, judge them on their merits, and distinguish the extraordinary from the merely...
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11 Apr

Google and Apple Plan to Turn Phones into COVID-19 Contact-Tracking Devices

Tech giants Apple and Google have joined forces to develop an interoperable contract-tracing tool that will help individuals determine if they have come in contact with someone infected with COVID-19. As part of this new initiative, the companies are expected...
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19 Mar

New Study Calls Common Risk Figure into Question

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Many risk models use a commonly quoted number — $150 per record — to estimate the cost of an incident. A new study from the Cyentia Institute says misusing that number...
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29 Feb

#deepweb | Six grand and a Rolex: lure of riches sucked me into online fraud | Technology

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Like most 18-year-olds, “Carlos” is never far from his phone, using it to catch up on his social media feeds and scroll through friends’ pictures. Unlike most teenagers though, he posted...
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25 Feb

#comptia | Amazon is expanding its cashierless Go model into a full-blown grocery store

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Amazon is getting more serious about its brick-and-mortar retail ambitions with its first-ever Amazon-branded grocery store. The store opens today in Seattle’s Capitol Hill district, confirming reports from last year that...
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23 Feb

#deepweb | ‘More Money Than Drugs:’ A Deep Dive Into Ad Fraud

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The average individual ad fraudsters make $5-20 million dollars a year. The average ad fraud corporation pulls “many multiples of that,” says TrafficGuard chief operating officer Luke Taylor. In other words:...
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17 Feb

#hacking | Why President Trump asked Ukraine to look into a DNC “server” and CrowdStrike – 60 Minutes

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Even after the acquittal of the president, his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, is pursuing allegations of corruption in Ukraine. This past week, Attorney General William Barr said the Justice Department would “carefully...
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