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Spies Want Your Money: Look at this pinhole camera used to steal credit card numbers

CTOvision

Threats to our information are not only from malware or brute force hacks or social engineering. Two relatively easy to execute attacks were recently highlighted by the New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority. By Bob Gourley. Criminals are motivated to look for every advantage. Their press release is provided below.

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Ransomware Exponentially Increasing as IoT Provides Physical Targeting Opportunities

CTOvision

This article increases awareness for organizations seeking to enhance their digital risk posture against the increasing threat of ransomware (a type of malware) deployed by threat actors to prevent or limit users from accessing their system until a ransom is paid. Crystal Lister. million in 2015 to 638 million in 2016.

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3 Top Reasons America Is Under a 'Ransomware Siege'

SecureWorld News

This year alone, ransomware attacks disrupted critical infrastructure, the food supply, IT management, healthcare, education, transportation, and many other sectors of the economy. For the most part, criminal and nation-state actors continue to launch attacks with little fear of getting in trouble.

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U.S. Government Warning on Ransomware Payments: What Does It Mean?

SecureWorld News

government institutions and companies, including the City of Atlanta, the Colorado Department of Transportation, and a large healthcare company. In December 2019, OFAC designated Evil Corp and its leader, Maksim Yakubets, for their development and distribution of the Dridex malware.".

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5 Industries To Be Dramatically Impacted By 5G Technology

Galido

Also, the fifth generation will allow real-time monitoring of agricultural equipment and planted crops, unifying of infrastructure and creating of entire cities, improving communication networks, including transport networks. The 5G will give an opportunity to quickly and reliably identify customers, eliminating the need to visit banks.

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Cybersecurity: A vertical industry application?

Network World

While it sounds like industry hype, cybersecurity has actually become a boardroom issue and corporate boards understand industry-specific risks much better than technology gibberish about malware and exploits. Targeted threats can generally be traced back to cyber adversaries that specialize on a particular industry in a particular geography.

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- Tech Terror List 2010

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

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. And there is the appearance of malware on legitimate websites , so even innocent employees doing their job on the Internet could get their computers infected.

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