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Ransomware on Your TV, Get Ready, It's Coming
Softpedia News Many cyber-security vendors view ransomware as 2016's biggest threat, and to help drive this point home, a Symantec security researcher demonstrated how easy it can be to infect smart TVs and how hard it can be to clean the infection afterwards. |
The Guardian |
Are China and the US ready for a truce on cyber-espionage?
The Guardian … consider the targeting of industry a separate issue from political espionage. Before president Xi Jinping's last visit to the United States in June 2013, the White House had trumpeted well in advance that president Obama had placed China's cyber … Cyber-suspicion strains US-China relations China cyber espionage is more than an irritant, must stop China cyber espionage must stop |
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If you live in the United States and you have a credit card, chances are high your bank recently sent you a new card with an embedded smart chip. Banks and other card issuers are scurrying to put chip-enabled credit cards in their customers’ hands. Debits cards, too. These cards are critical for a new security system for card-based payments that will go into effect in the U.S. soon.
In the lingo of the payments industry, the new cards are called EMV cards. EMV is an open set of specifications for smart cards and other acceptance devices such as smart phones and fobs. EMV stands for Europay, MasterCard and Visa, which are the three companies that developed the standard in 1994. Today the EMV standard is managed by EMVCo LLC, which has six member organizations – American Express, Discover, JCB, MasterCard, UnionPay and Visa – and dozens of EMVCo associates. EMVCo makes decisions on a consensus basis to assure card infrastructure uniformity throughout the world.
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Good news from Adobe about CVE-2015-0311, the unpatched zero-day in Flash. The patch is now ready via auto-update – 2 days early!
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