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Red door
Flaw in HID door controllers lets attackers unlock doors, deactivate alarms

Trend Micro researcher Ricky Lawshae has unearthed a critical vulnerability in HID’s VertX and Edge door controllers. Exploiting the flaw is easy, and could result in …

samas-ransomware
Samas ransomware enters hospitals through vulnerable servers

There’s hardly a day anymore that we don’t hear about a hospital being hit with ransomware. But while most have been infected via phishing emails carrying or …

Law legislation
Hackers breaching law firms for insider trading info

Two of the most prestigious law firms in the US, best known for their financial services and corporate practices, have had their computer networks compromised by hackers. …

Steam
Student bypasses Valve’s review process, publishes game on Steam

Sometimes the only way to get an organization to listen to you when it comes to existing vulnerabilities in their products is to exploit them yourself and make the proof of …

Pyxis SupplyStation system
1,400+ vulnerabilities found in automated medical supply system

Security researchers have discovered 1,418 vulnerabilities in CareFusion’s Pyxis SupplyStation system – automated cabinets used to dispense medical supplies …

payment card
Carders use custom built POS malware to hit US retailers

Crypto-ransomware might be the most prominent type of malware these days, but that doesn’t mean that criminals have stopped using other kinds. According to FireEye …

Gmail
New alerts for Gmail users targeted by state-sponsored attackers

Since 2012, Google has been warning Gmail users when they have been targeted by state-sponsored attackers, but now the alert will be even more visible (and therefore less …

petya ransomware
Petya ransomware encrypts files, disks, locks users out of computers

A new type of ransomware does not only encrypt the victims’ files, but also their disk’s Master File Table (MFT), and it replaces the boot drive’s existing …

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Printers all over the US “hacked” to spew anti-Semitic fliers

Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer, one of the two men who were prosecuted and convicted for harvesting e-mails and authentication IDs of 114,000 early-adopters of Apple’s iPad from …

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US govt has unlocked San Bernardino gunman’s iPhone

The US Department of Justice has found a way to get into the iPhone 5C owned by Syed Farook, one of the San Bernardino shooters. With a short status report filed with the …

facebook profile impersonation
Facebook testing new features to prevent user harassment

Facebook is testing three new features that should help prevent or at least minimize harassment of users on its platform. The first will alert users if someone tries to …

Apple
OS X zero day bug allows hackers to bypass system integrity protection

An OS X zero day vulnerability could allow attackers to bypass System Integrity Protection, Apple’s newest protection feature, and to escalate their privileges, simplifying …

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