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Researchers mount cyber attacks against surgery robot

A group of researchers from University of Washington have tested the security of a teleoperated robotic surgery system created by their colleagues, and have found it severely …

Email delivery service SendGrid confirms data breach

Sendgrid, the email delivery and management service that counts among its clients companies like Pinterest, Airbnb and Uber, has admitted that they have been …

There’s now a decryption tool for TeslaCrypt ransomware

“Here’s some very good news for victims of the TeslaCrypt ransomware: Cisco researchers have created a tool for them to decrypt the files themselves and avoid …

Banking Trojan delivered to companies via macro-based malware

“Cybercriminals continue targeting enterprises with malicious emails whose ultimate goal is to infect company computers with the Dyre/Dyreza banking malware. But instead …

WordPress vulnerable to yet another, still to be patched XSS flaw

The latest WordPress version (4.2, released on Thursday) and several earlier ones are vulnerable to a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability that can be exploited to …

Successful POS attacks are the result of poor security, researchers find

Most data breaches involving payment card information – and there have been too many in the last two years – can be traced back to a lack of implementation of …

How Google saw the DDoS attack against Github and GreatFire

The recent DDoS attacks aimed at GreatFire, a website that exposes China’s internet censorship efforts and helps users get access to their mirror-sites, and GitHub, the …

German intelligence agency helped NSA spy on EU companies

Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND) has been aiding the US NSA spy on European companies and politicians since 2008, possibly even earlier, Der Spiegel claims …

70 bad exit nodes used in attack against Tor-based SIGAINT

Darknet email service SIGAINT, which aims to provide email privacy to journalists, has been targeted by unknown attackers using at least 70 bad exit nodes, the service’s …

100,000 web shops open to compromise as attackers exploit Magento bug

A critical vulnerability found in Magento, the most popular content management system for e-commerce sites, is being exploited by hackers to get their hands on users’ …

Latest trends in the ransomware business

“Cybercrooks wielding ransomware might prefer getting paid in Bitcoin, but the crypto currency is just a way to obfuscate the real destination of the payment – as …

WordPress issues critical security release

WordPress users should update as soon as possible, as the latest release (4.1.2) plugs a critical cross-site scripting vulnerability that could allow anonymous users to …

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