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Heise Sicherheits NewsIoT-Geräte nutzen oft leicht zu missbrauchende P2P-Protokolle. Kriminelle können so Kamera-Feeds abgreifen und IoT-Botnetze aufbauen, erläutert ein Forscher....

Heise Sicherheits NewsDie Software der populären Passwort-Website Have I Been Pwned soll bald Open-Source werden. Das soll das Projekt zuverlässiger und vertrauenswürdiger machen....

threatpost.comResearchers identified serious flaws in Qualcomm’s Snapdragon SoC and the Hexagon architecture that impacts nearly half of Android handsets....

threatpost.comLegacy applications don't support modern authentication -- and cybercriminals know this....

threatpost.comFully opening the door to allow people to contribute to – and notably, tinker with – the code for the data-breach information service will be an entirely next-level effort, according to founder Troy Hunt....

Heise Sicherheits NewsSchwächen in Satelliten-gestützter Kommunikation gefährdet Daten von Kreuzfahrt- und Luftfahrtpassagieren, Unternehmensdaten und industrielle IoT-Komponenten....

TheHackersNewsCybersecurity researchers today highlighted an evasive phishing technique that attackers are exploiting in the wild to target visitors of several sites with a quirk in domain names, and leverage modified favicons to inject e-skimmers and steal payment card information covertly. "The idea is simple and consists of using characters that look the same in order to dupe users," Malwarebytes...

Heise Sicherheits NewsLaut einer Studie bringen über drei Viertel der befragten Unternehmen Code mit Sicherheitslücken in die Produktion – und zwar wissentlich....

Heise Sicherheits NewsEine Initative aus Indien will all jenen helfen, für die der Einstieg in den IT-Sec-Bereich etwa aus kulturellen oder finanziellen Gründen besonders schwer ist....

TheHackersNewsA United States regulator has fined the credit card provider Capital One Financial Corp with $80 million over last year's data breach that exposed the personal information of more than 100 million credit card applicants of Americans. The fine was imposed by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), an independent bureau within the United States Department of the Treasury that...

TheHackersNewsFor much of this year, IT professionals all over the globe have had their hands full, finding ways to help businesses cope with the fallout of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. In many cases, it involved a rapid rollout of significant remote work infrastructure. That infrastructure was called into service with little to no warning and even less opportunity for testing. Needless to say, the...

TheHackersNewsIt turns out that the root cause behind several previously disclosed speculative execution attacks against modern processors, such as Meltdown and Foreshadow, was misattributed to 'prefetching effect,' resulting in hardware vendors releasing incomplete mitigations and countermeasures. Sharing its findings with The Hacker News, a group of academics from the Graz University of Technology and...

securitymagazine.comAs much of the world continues to hunker down at home in response to COVID-19, threat actors continue to find ways of exploiting the crisis to gather sensitive and valuable information from individuals. But while we’re busy making sure that our primary computers and cloud-based accounts are locked down, it’s often the devices we least suspect – our smartphones – that provide the opening that hackers need. The 2018 hacking of Jeff Bezos’s iPhone X, perhaps the most famous example of smartphone hacking, provides an important reminder that these most personal of devices should be used with appropriate caution, especially in this time of upheaval....

securitymagazine.comThe UW-System and UW-Madison will receive $32 million from the state as they prepare to welcome students back to campus this fall....

securitymagazine.comHospitals in Glasgow, Scotland have reported a rise in verbal and physical attacks during the COVID-19 pandemic, forcing them to draft in extra security to tackle the attacks. ...

securitymagazine.comA new document, Planning for on-campus K-12 education during COVID-19, developed by the COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition, provides guidance to be used as a resource by school leaders to develop and implement plans for returning to on-campus learning....

securitymagazine.comA survey among 78 financial institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean holding 54 percent of the total assets managed by the banking sector in the region, revealed that 38 percent of banks incorporate guidelines on climate change in their strategy and 24 percent have a policy on climate risk evaluation and disclosure....

securitymagazine.comThe National Security Agency released a Limiting Location Data Exposure Cybersecurity Information Sheet (CSI) to guide National Security System (NSS) and Department of Defense (DoD) mobile device users on how they might reduce risk associated with sharing sensitive location data....

securitymagazine.comThe Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released the Cyber Career Pathways Tool, an interactive approach for current and future cybersecurity professionals to envision their career and navigate next steps within the NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework. ...

securitymagazine.comTwitter has announced that it has found a security vulnerability in its Android app....

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