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How a few legitimate app developers threaten the entire Android userbase
Ars Technica Even worse, many of the off-the-shelf exploits target undocumented Android security flaws. It took just one month of part-time work for the computer scientists to reverse engineer 167 exploits from a single provider so they could be reused by any app … |
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CIA reshuffle features 'mission centers', cyber–warfare to 'cover the entire …
RT The CIA's new cyber-division will be called the Directorate of Digital Innovation. It joins the four existing Directorates: Support, Science and Technology, and Operations and Analysis, under the new organization plan. Analysis is reverting to its … The CIA Says It's Time to Up Its Cyber Game CIA Planning Overhaul To Handle Modern Cyber Threats We're All Spies Now: CIA Director Announces Major Restructuring |
“Here is a tale of ransomware that will make your blood run cold,” announced Stu Sjouwerman of security training firm KnowBe4 in a company newsletter this week and he wasn’t exaggerating.
One of his firm’s customers contacted him on 14 October for advice on how to buy Bitcoins after all seven of its servers containing 75GB of data had been encrypted by a recent variant of the hated CryptoWall ransom Trojan.
An admin had clicked on a phishing link which was bad enough. Unfortunately, the infected workstation had mapped drives and permissions to all seven servers and so CryptoWall had quickly jumped on to them to hand the anonymous professional a work day to forget.
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