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Hacking News Roundup: Even 'Fast Company' Isn't Safe

SecureWorld News

This summer has seen an increase in attackers' use of the Deadbolt ransomware variant, which affects network-attached storage (NAS) devices. This report dives into how this growing tactic works, including how NAS boxes are vulnerable due to their "plug-and-play" nature for network attached storage. Deadbolt ransomware variant.

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This new spyware named “SpyNote” can read SMS, access camera

Dataconomy

In the world of cybersecurity, a new threat has emerged – an Android banking trojan known as SpyNote. Once infiltrates your device, it embarks on a covert mission to pilfer text messages and sensitive banking data. Use Antivirus Software: Install reputable antivirus or anti-malware software on your device.

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Why Financial Services Firms are Championing Natural Language Processing

CIO Business Intelligence

Those numbers represent the projected growth of chatbot interactions among banking customers between 2019 to 2023 and the cost savings from 862 hours less of work by support personnel, according to research by Juniper Research. One example is the ability to identify words or phrases used by malware bots.

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Data Security and its Importance on the Internet

Galido

In recent years, we have seen many high profile companies become victims of cyber attacks: Along with high profile cyber attacks are the even more frequent attacks on Windows users, and with the rise in Apple popularity, so come the more frequent attacks on Apple as well. Computer networks give numerous opportunities for cyber attack.

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- Can a City be Hacked to its Knees?

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

There are many related and frightening stories – the Wall Street Journal was attacked , a power station in the United States has been offline for three weeks due to an attack based on a USB drive, and, of course, Anonymous (or someone) has been hard at work with denial of service and web defacing attacks on banks and government agencies.

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- Tech Terror List 2010

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

And employees LIKE them and wonder why Mr. CIO is the Grinch and won’t connect them to e-mail and the network. Cyberterrorists and Malware. This is only the tip of the iceberg of a new set of computer viruses and malware written by nation-states to attack each other. For 2010, they remain on my Tech Terror Watch List.).

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hunting The Next Heartbleed

ForAllSecure

Apple Podcasts. A kind of digital smash and grab of sensitive information such as the encryption keys created to protect sensitive transactions on a site like Amazon, or your bank with no way to trace any of it back to you. I got my start writing about malware, this was back even before the term malware existed.