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Researchers discover 110 snooping Tor nodes

In a period spanning 72 days, two researchers from Northeastern University have discovered at least 110 “misbehaving” and potentially malicious hidden services …

Critical holes in Micro Focus Filr found, plugged

Popular enterprise file management and collaborative file sharing solution Micro Focus Filr sports half a dozen security flaws, most of which can be exploited – either …

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Law enforcement and IT security companies join forces to fight ransomware

Today, the Dutch National Police, Europol, Intel Security and Kaspersky Lab launched the No More Ransom initiative, a new step in the cooperation between law enforcement and …

WarFrame
Warframe, Clash of Kings players’ info stolen after forum hacks

Two new website hack/ user data theft combos have been revealed last week, and the victims are players of popular mobile real time strategy game Clash of Kings and online …

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Industry collaborates on automotive cybersecurity best practices

New technology has paved the way for extraordinary advancements in vehicle safety, emissions reduction, and fuel economy. Today’s vehicles do more to keep drivers secure …

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Week in review: Pokémon GO, flawed code hooking engines, Ubuntu Forums hacked again

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Preparing for new EU cybersecurity rules and regulations The Network and Information …

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Decrypter for Locky-mimicking PowerWare ransomware released

Palo Alto Networks’ researchers have created a decrypter for the variant of the PoshCoder ransomware that imitates the Locky ransomware. Dubbed PowerWare by the …

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Snowden wants you to know when your phone is revealing your location

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and hardware hacker Andrew “Bunnie” Huang have possibly come up with a solution for warning users when their phones are revealing their …

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Victims of Tinder safe dating scam can lose a lot of money

Users of Tinder, the massively popular location-based dating app, are being targeted with a clever scam that may make them lose over a $100 per month. The Tinder safe dating …

Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi hack experiment conducted at Republican National Convention site

Avast security researchers conducted a Wi-Fi hack experiment at various locations around the Republican National Convention site in Cleveland to demonstrate how risky it can …

Cloud
Cloud shift will affect $1 trillion in IT spending

More than $1 trillion in IT spending will be directly or indirectly affected by the shift to cloud during the next five years, said Gartner, Inc. This will make cloud …

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Companies are unprepared to protect key assets

Knowledge assets are confidential information critical to a company’s core business – other than personal information that would trigger notice requirements under …

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