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New LTE attacks can reveal accessed websites, direct victims to malicious sites

Three new attacks against the LTE 4G wireless data communications technology have been pinpointed by researchers from Ruhr-University Bochum and New York University Abu Dhabi. …

HDD
Attacking hard disk drives using ultrasonic sounds

Another group of researchers has demonstrated that hard disk drives (HDDs) can be interfered with through sound waves, but they’ve also shown that ultrasonic signals …

World target
Vulnerable Apache Solr, Redis, Windows servers hit with cryptominers

Vulnerable servers of all kinds are being targeted, compromised and made to mine cryptocurrencies for the attackers. Apache Solr servers under attack SANS ISC handler Renato …

PC
Locked Windows machines can be compromised through Cortana

Compromising locked Windows computers that have the Cortana voice-activated virtual assistant enabled is relatively easy – or it was until Microsoft made a simple tweak. …

mobile device
New LTE attacks open users to eavesdropping, fake messages, location spoofing

A group of researchers has uncovered ten new attacks against the 4G LTE wireless data communications technology for mobile devices and data terminals. The attacks exploit …

artificial intelligence
Afraid of AI? We should be

Not (yet!) of a sentient digital entity that could turn rogue and cause the end of mankind, but the exploitation of artificial intelligence and machine learning for nefarious …

DoS attacks against hard disk drives using acoustic signals

A group of Princeton and Purdue researchers has shown that it’s possible to mount a denial-of-service (DoS) attack against hard disk drives via acoustic signals. Threat …

Wi-Fi
How to make public Wi-Fi users mine cryptocurrency for you

Covertly roping unsuspecting users’ machines into mining cryptocurrency is a dream for many aspiring cryptocurrency owners, and some of them set aside ethical …

Fox IT
Security company Fox-IT reveals, details MitM attack they suffered in September

Dutch IT security consultancy/service provider Fox-IT has revealed on Thursday that it has suffered a security breach, which resulted in some files and emails sent by the …

hunt
Extortion-based cyber attacks: The next evolution in profit-motivated attack strategies

Today, data breaches have impacted just about every industry possible. From entertainment to the restaurant industry, no sector or organization appears to be safe, and it has …

Bluetooth
Billions of Bluetooth-enabled devices vulnerable to new airborne attacks

Eight zero-day vulnerabilities affecting the Android, Windows, Linux and iOS implementations of Bluetooth can be exploited by attackers to extract information from, execute …

Equifax
Equifax attackers got in through an Apache Struts flaw?

Have the attackers responsible for the Equifax data breach exploited a vulnerability in Apache Struts, a popular open source framework for developing web applications, to …

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