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Last week, two Indonesian hackers told me about a virus project plan called 'Nukem.' It's a simple idea: Create a computer virus as powerful as a nuclear bomb. The key is artificial intelligence. The example they used was air traffic control. The virus will adapt to the computer it's in, then jump to each aircraft ...

APT hackers exploited currently unknown vulnerabilities in routers manufactured by Latvian hardware provider Mikrotik. However, this cyber threat is active for almost more than six years since the experts have found its samples submitted as early as 2012. Slingshot shares the features of spyware, and its ...

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"MHA is using open-source SSL, a programming format to encrypt all the data because of which hackers can easily access all data. The SSL is ... However, if the certified version is used then the hacker will only be able to read the encrypted form and wont be unable to decode it, he added. What is more ...

Experts are sounding the alarm about new cyber activity from Iran, as hackers become more emboldened and skilled at carrying out surveillance operations and other attacks outside the country's borders. In recent years, Iran-linked hacker groups have showed signs of growing sophistication, expanding ...

Investigative journalist Jeff Rossen recruited a security expert to set up fake Wi-Fi hot spots at the Grand Fiesta Americana hotel in Cancun, Mexico, The Sun reports. The pair duped holiday-makers there by giving their Wi-Fi spots similar names to the official Wi-Fi. Once the tourists logged on, the hacker ...

Device manufacturers say the in-office programmers that communicate with implanted heart devices would be of little use to a hacker who wanted to harm a ... Security experts say there will always be tension between the cyber protections in heart devices and the health benefits of wireless access to them.

While investigating the DDoS attack, experts at Russia-based data security firm Group-IB confirmed that the attack was carried out by Ukrainian nationals Gayk Grishkyan and Inna Yatsenko. They also found that the two hackers targeted other prominent firms like US-based Stafford Associated that leased ...

There was another case of accusations leveled against North Korean hackers for the stealing of funds from the Bank of Bangladesh in 2013 that was worth nearly $81 million. It is believed hacker cells are operating in different foreign locations including the likes of India and China. Some reports recently ...

Most security experts recommend that you don't pay up. That includes the security researchers at Akamai. "If a victim were to deposit the requested amount into the wallet, we doubt the attackers would even know which victim the payment originated from, let alone stop their attacks as a result," wrote Akamai ...

Hutchins had given interviews pseudonymously, as MalwareTech, but he feared reprisal from the WannaCry hackers and had taken great pains to maintain his “OpSec,” hacker shorthand for operational security. (The rest of us call it privacy.) Most of his friends in Ilfracombe didn't know what he did for work, ...

The 29-year-old blonde-haired Russian hacker at the center of the intrigue surrounding the Kremlin's cyberattacks on the 2016 U.S. presidential election ... Since Kozlovsky's been in jail since late 2016, he doesn't know the current activities of Russian hackers, but said it's likely they are using his software to ...

Evidence suggests hacker cells have operational hubs in foreign locations. Ms Moriuchi told the Telegraph in a December interview that Recorded Future was probing whether North Korean hackers were operating out of several countries that included China and India. Recent reports have revealed that a ...

Equifax also claimed the company's' forensic experts had found “no evidence” that Equifax's core consumer, employment and income or commercial credit reporting databases were accessed by hackers. Meanwhile, more than 300 proposed class action suits have been filed on behalf of individual ...

... victim using the Yubikey Neo, one of the most popular of the so-called Universal Two-Factor, or U2F, tokens that security experts recommend as the strongest form of protection against phishing attacks. With a sufficiently convincing phishing site and a feature in Chrome known as WebUSB, a hacker could ...

In recent years, cybersecurity experts have pointed to the growing sophistication of Iran's cyber-espionage capabilities, following a 2011 cyberattack that destroyed computer-controlled equipment at the country's Natanz uranium enrichment facility. U.S. intelligence officials previously said that hackers ...

This is deeply alarming, cybersecurity experts say, because without the facts, states can't adequately secure their systems and block hackers from ... Since early 2017, federal and state officials have been unanimous in insisting that Russian hackers did not succeed in changing any voter information or ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – A Wichita woman is sending a warning to social media users after she said someone attempted to hack her Facebook account. “I was very confused, and I was kind of worried because I don't know how something like this happens,” said Riley Terreau. Terreau, 21, was at work ...

A more well-known company, LG, reportedly had a close call last year. Security experts picked up on a glitch. Hackers could have accessed home appliances and robotic vacuums. The company made changes before it was too late, but it's still a reminder to consumers to be "smart" about smart devices.

The presence of the software suggested this wasn't the case with the Venango machine, which made the system vulnerable to hackers. ... But for as long as experts have warned about security problems, voting machine makers and election officials have denied that the machines can be remotely hacked.

There were no serious problems, but officials are concerned that the Games could be targeted again by hackers. ... It's got a lot of money -- that draws hackers like flies to a candle," said cybersecurity expert Jim Lewis. ... Cybersecurity experts are worried about hacking during the Pyeongchang Olympics.

LAS VEGAS – As hackers increase in sophistication and the threat surface expands, cybersecurity needs to be a priority for all healthcare organizations. That's especially true since many of the global cyberattacks in the last year -- like WannaCry and NotPetya, weren't even targeting the healthcare sector, ...

An expert says North Carolina schools aren't prepared for a significant cyber security attack, EdNC reported Wednesday. According to the outlet, a tech expert from the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation in Raleigh gave state lawmakers a “sobering” look at the school districts' security as it stands ...