Cybersecurity Is About Much More Than Hacking

There is growing concern among professionals that cybersecurity firms are seriously understaffed, and there aren’t nearly enough of them to combat the growing number of cyberattacks. Making matters worse, the continued drive toward accelerated training programs for software developers means that more developers are deploying code who have not had any formal security training.

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How to Shop Online Like a Security Pro

So here’s a quick refresher course on how to make it through the next few weeks without getting snookered online.

Adopting a shopping strategy of simply buying from the online merchant with the lowest advertised prices can be a bit like playing Russian Roulette with your wallet, for the simple reason that there are tons of completely fake e-commerce sites out there looking to separate the unwary from their credit card details.

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Why Cyber Monday is just the beginning of the festive hacking season

Attackers will always attempt to go for the low-hanging fruit by targeting individual consumers for a quick payday by clearing out their bank accounts or by selling fake or non-existent goods, but more organised hacking groups will also use the holiday period in an attempt to win bigger scores.

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Terrifying new email scam & what to do

People are being victimized by a terrifying new email scam where attackers claim they stole your password and hacked your webcam while you were watching porn — here’s how to protect yourself. The attacker probably took your password from a publicly available database of old leaked passwords and email addresses.

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Researchers discover seven new Meltdown and Spectre attacks

A team of nine academics has revealed today seven new CPU attacks. The seven impact AMD, ARM, and Intel CPUs to various degrees.

Two of the seven new attacks are variations of the Meltdown attack, while the other five are variations on the original Spectre attack — two well-known attacks that have been revealed at the start of the year and found to impact CPUs models going back to 1995.

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The New Cryptojacking: Victims’ Computers Mine Cryptocurrency

Computers infected with cryptojacking malware run much slower, and often victims are not even aware that their computers are being attacked, as “coin mining” malware is difficult to detect. Once a machine is compromised, a malicious app runs silently in the background with just one sign: performance degradation.

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Why WannaCry ransomware is still a threat to your PC

WannaCry tops the list of the most widespread cryptor families, with attempted attacks against 74,621 of the security firm’s users across the globe between July and September.  WannaCry ransomware attacks have risen as proportion of the total attack compared with the same period last year: in Q3 2017

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Why ransomware costs small businesses big money

About 22% of businesses with less than 1,000 employees that experienced a ransomware attack in the last year had to stop business operations immediately. About 15% lost revenue.

On average, small companies lost over $100,000 per ransomware incident due to downtime. For one in six organizations, these attacks caused 25 hours or more of downtime.

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23 Social Engineering Attacks You Need To Shut Down

A social engineering attack is an orchestrated campaign against employees at either a variety of companies or one high valued business using a variety of digital, in-person or over the phone techniques to steal intellectual property, credentials or money.

Hackers prefer social engineering because it’s much easier to hack a human than a business. Social engineering attacks allow the hacker to combine multiple efforts and even cover their tracks, because they can use the human to take money or install malware under their persona.

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A New Threat to Your Finances: Cell-Phone Account Fraud

Consumers have a new privacy threat to worry about. It’s known as cell-phone account fraud, where crooks open up a phony cell-phone account in your name and use it to access your bank account, sign up for credit cards, or sell the phone number for other criminals to use.

While little known among consumers, cell-phone account fraud can have a devastating impact on your finances—and your reputation.

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Ransomware shuts down 1 in 5 small businesses after it hits

When businesses are hit with ransomware, it’s not just the ransom amount that could financially hurt. The time spent trying to get systems back online and potential revenue lost in the meantime makes a lasting impact, too.

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Even After Multiple Cyberattacks, Many Businesses Fail to Bolster Security. Here’s What You Need to Do

Small businesses suffered a barrage of computer invasions last year but most took no action to shore up their security afterward, according to a survey by insurer Hiscox.  It found that 47 percent of small businesses reported that they had one attack in 2017, and 44 percent said they had two to four attacks.  The invasions included ransomware, which makes a computer’s files unusable unless the device’s user or owner pays a ransom…

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OK, panic—newly evolved ransomware is bad news for everyone

There’s something inherently world-changing about the latest round of crypto-ransomware that has been hitting a wide range of organizations over the past few months. While most of the reported incidents of data being held hostage have purportedly involved a careless click by an individual on an e-mail attachment, an emerging class of criminals with slightly greater skill has turned ransomware into a sure way to cash in on just about any network intrusion.
And that means that there’s now a financial incentive for going after just about anything. While the payoff of going after businesses’ networks used to depend on the long play—working deep into the network, finding and packaging data, smuggling it back out—ransomware attacks don’t require that level of sophistication today. It’s now much easier to convert hacks into cash.

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5 Unexpected Ransomware Attacks You need to know

Ransomware attacks are proliferating unimaginably. Coming year might come along with some more serious threats. We hope security researchers come up with sure solutions for these robust malware program and innocent users aren’t harmed anymore.

Above all, we highly recommend all user to take offline backup of their data. Even if they are attacked with any such attack, they won’t end up becoming a victim.

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How to spot a phishing email?

One of the solution I’d implement would be: when ever we hover over the link its should show you to which link it is pointing or redirecting to and this solution needs to be implemented by all email providers like Google’s Gmail, Microsoft’s Outlook etc. This will prevent the user from exposing their personal information to hackers.

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China to Control the Internet of Things to Spy on Business?

China is aggressively seeking to dominate the Internet of Things and plans to use access to billions of networked electronic devices for intelligence-gathering, sabotage, and business purposes, according to a forthcoming congressional report.

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12 signs you’ve been hacked — and how to fight back

Here are 12 sure signs you’ve been hacked and what to do in the event of compromise. Note that in all cases, the number 1 recommendation is to completely restore your system to a known good state before proceeding.

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Huawei accused of scheme to steal semiconductor technology from US start-up

A former Huawei employee has accused the company of trying to steal intellectual property in order to help China achieve technological dominance over the US by using a lawsuit against his Silicon Valley start-up.

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Your computer could be quietly mining bitcoin — for someone else

Hackers are quietly hijacking personal computers, company servers, cable routers, mobile devices and other forms of computing power to stealthily mine cryptocurrencies — a problem that cybersecurity experts warn is growing rapidly.  The act, known as cryptojacking…

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Cybercriminals Know Most Small Businesses Lack Cybersecurity

Could your business recover from an abrupt loss of $256,000? Because that’s how much a single cybersecurity hack could cost a small business, according to a recent analysis in Tech Republic.

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The fileless attack: Hacking without installing software

Cyber criminals don’t need to place malware on your system to get in. Fileless or zero-footprint attacks use legitimate applications or even the operating system.  “We see it every day,” says Steven Lentz, CSO at Samsung Research America. “Something coming through, some exploit type, unknown ransomware. We’ve stopped several things with our defenses, either network-wise or at the end point.” The attacks that Lentz is worried about are fileless attacks, also known as zero-footprint attacks, macro, or non-malware attacks. These types of attacks don’t install new software on a user’s computer, so antivirus tools are more likely to miss them.

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This cryptojacking mining malware pretends to be a Flash update

Crooks are attempting to spread their cryptojacking malware to unsuspecting victims by disguising it as an update for Flash.  This particular mining operation is thought to have been operating since August this year with a big spike in activity in September and looks to trick potential victims into downloading an XMRig cryptocurrency miner — the malicious software runs in the background and secretly uses the power of the infected PC to acquire Monero for the hackers.

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U.S. warns of new hacking spree from group linked to China

The U.S. government on Wednesday warned that a hacking group widely known as cloudhopper, which Western cybersecurity firms have linked to the Chinese government, has launched attacks on technology service providers in a campaign to steal data from their clients.

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If you’ve been hacked, don’t count on the police for help

Even the FBI and your local police can’t agree on who you should contact first.  The FBI and your local police both suggest that you should call them. But experts warn that in many cases, neither agency will be able to help, especially if the criminal is asking for so little money. This dynamic underscores why these kinds of hacks — and yes, the porn scam really happened — are starting to proliferate.

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Hackers peddle thousands of air miles on the Dark Web for pocket money

Air miles are easily available online which are issued by airlines including Delta, British Airways, Emirates, and Alaska Air, among others.  After investigating Dark Web marketplaces including Dream Market, Olympus, and the Berlusconi Market, Bischoff found that sellers are flogging hundreds of thousands of frequent flier points.

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8 Smart Ways To Maintain Your Digital Privacy

Regardless of how you use the internet, it’s nearly guaranteed that you are being tracked in some way. Natalie Triedman recently shared how people, often unknowingly, are sharing their location. We aren’t saying that you should freak out and stop using the internet, but it’s a good idea to be smart about your browsing.

Follow these tips to start protecting your information online. We’ve included some quick steps that everyone can do, as well as some more difficult and advanced methods for keeping your web data secure.

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This powerful off-the-shelf phone-hacking tool is spreading

Researchers at internet watchdog Citizen Lab have found that a sophisticated piece of spyware designed to break into most commercially available smartphones is now in use in 45 countries. Pegasus, designed by Israeli security firm NSO Group, has been pitched as a so-called “lawful intercept” tool for governments with highly questionable human rights records like Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia.

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Cyber security: Your boss doesn’t care and that’s not OK anymore

So why do the upper echelons of many organisations still not understand the risks they face or know what they should be doing to counter them?

One issue is that within many organisations, cyber security is still viewed as an issue for the IT department, rather than the business as a whole.

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