CyberSecurity
By shornik | A collection of stories related to technology vulnerabilities, exploits and preventive controls by Dr. Steven Hornik as curated by University of Central Florida Advanced Accounting Information System graduate students.
The human cost of cyber attacks
As governments, corporations, and hospitals around the world struggle to get back up and running after a string of recent ransomware attacks, …
CybersecurityHackers Have Been Targeting U.S. Nukes - MIT Technology Review
A series of cyberattacks has been leveled at the computer networks of American nuclear power plants.<p>The <i>New York Times</i> reveals that the Department of …
CybersecurityHackers have been breaking into U.S. power plant networks, including a nuclear facility, since May
Someone is creeping around the digital infrastructure of United States power plants, including a nuclear facility.<p>Hackers have been breaking into the administrative computer networks of U.S. plant operators since May, using tactics associated with a well-known Russian group, according to <i>The New</i> …
CybersecurityYahoo’s failures led to billion-account breach, experts say
SUNNYVALE — In the wake of a revelation from Yahoo that it had discovered another massive data breach, cybersecurity experts are condemning the …
SecurityThe Target breach, two years later
With the annual orgy of holiday shopping officially kicking off this week, has anything really changed since the breach that rocked retail?<p>Although …
CybersecurityHow the Bitfinex Heist Could Have Been Avoided
bitcoin vaults security August 03, 2016 at 07:20 AM Emin Gün Sirer<p>Bitfinex, one of the largest Bitcoin exchanges, was hacked, leading to the loss of …
BitcoinLessons From the Dyn DDoS Attack
A week ago Friday, someone took down numerous popular websites in a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against the domain name …
CybersecurityHackers behind global cyberattack emerge from Dark Web, demand victims pay up
After cyber researchers discounted money as a motive, the hackers ask for ransom following attack that crippled Ukraine and others.<p>The hackers behind …
CybersecurityCopyCat Malware Infects 14 Million Android Devices
A new malware strain is discovered with a novel approach to infecting Android handheld devices with adware.<p>Millions of Android devices have been hit …
Information SecurityAPI flaws said to have left Symantec SSL certificates vulnerable to compromise
Over the weekend, Chris Byrne, an information security consultant and instructor for Cloud Harmonics, published a post to Facebook outlining a …
Information SecurityCloudbleed bug: Everything you need to know
The internet has a new security bug called Cloudbleed and it's pretty bad. We explain what it is, how it affects you and what you can do.<p>Cloudbleed is the latest internet bug that puts users private information in jeopardy. News of the bug broke late on Thursday, but there is already a lot of …
Hacking Attack Has Security Experts Scrambling to Contain Fallout
Governments, companies and security experts from China to Britain raced on Saturday to contain the fallout from an audacious global cyberattack amid fears that if they did not succeed, companies would lose their data unless they met ransom demands.<p>The global efforts came less than a day after …
SecurityThis Strange New Ransomware Isn't Really After Your Money
NotPetya. ExPetr. PetrWrap. The cataclysmic ransomware technology that infected computers across the world has been called many names. It is one of the most sophisticated malware attacks in recent history, and yet one with a seemingly unforgivable flaw. The ransomware, which infected thousands of …
CybersecurityBeware this Android banking malware posing as a software update
Latest version of the mobile malware can steal login credentials from at least 40 banking, retail and social media apps.<p>A sophisticated banking …
BankingWhat is Broadpwn? Google fixes bug that allows millions of Android phones to be remotely hacked
Broadpwn is linked to a flaw in Broadcom WiFi chips and also affects iOS devices.<p>Millions of Android phones are at risk of being remotely hacked due …
Information SecurityFriendFinder Networks data breach exposes over 400 million adult site accounts
The breach reportedly occurred in October and included user credentials from six adult-oriented websites.<p>Adult dating and entertainment company …
SecurityYour anti-virus software is not enough
As cyber-security gets more complicated, you should be taking more steps to protect yourself.<p>There was a time when anti-virus software was the height of computer security, especially if you were a Windows user. But the landscape of threats has changed, and we live in an era of sweeping, global …
Anti-Virus SoftwareThis Is The Hacker Allegedly Behind The LinkedIn and MySpace Megabreaches
Who is Tessa88, the other hacker who’s spreading and selling hacked passwords stolen from your social networks?<p>In the last few weeks, more than half a billion passwords stolen from some of the biggest social media websites in the world have been traded and sold in the internet's underground.<p>The …
SecurityBits before bombs: How Stuxnet crippled Iran’s nuclear dreams
The future of warfare may have just begun, but rather than being heralded by an explosion, it began without a sound or a single casualty.<p>It is the …
IranTarget Missed Warnings in Epic Hack of Credit Card Data - Bloomberg
The biggest retail hack in U.S. history wasn’t particularly inventive, nor did it appear destined for success. In the days prior to Thanksgiving …
How We Can Prevent Another Anthem Breach
Two things could have mitigated the damage and maybe even prevented any loss at all: behavioral analysis and context-aware access control.<p>Another …
CybersecurityThe only way to stop another WannaCry is with regulations
It's been one week since the newest (and therefore scariest) cyberattack, which caused pandemonium across Ukraine and Russia before spreading to other countries. But that came only a few weeks after the WannaCry ransomware targeted Windows XP machines worldwide, which infamously held data from the …
CybersecurityThe Story Behind The Stuxnet Virus
Computer security experts are often surprised at which stories get picked up by the mainstream media. Sometimes it makes no sense. Why this particular data breach, vulnerability, or worm and not others? Sometimes it’s obvious. In the case of Stuxnet, there’s a great story.<p>As the story goes, the …
Bruce SchneierHow Russian hackers used Britney Spears' Instagram to communicate
Last year, Instagram reached a whopping 500 million accounts, with these half billion users posting 95 million photos a day. Beyond that are an …
OrlandoPassword manager OneLogin hit by data breach
<b>Encrypted information has been accessed during a data breach at the password management service, OneLogin.</b><p>It affects "all customers served by our US data centre" and perpetrators had "the ability to decrypt encrypted data", according to The Register.<p>Those affected have been advised to visit a …
Security43 million passwords hacked in Last.fm breach
Crikey: 43,570,999 user accounts were breached in a hack of Last.fm that occurred in March of 2012, according to a report from LeakedSource. Three months after the breach, in June of 2012, Last.fm issued the following statement:<p>“We are currently investigating the leak of some Last.fm user …
Spotify Hacked? Thousands Of Accounts’ Login Credentials Released By The Leak Boat | International Business Times
<b>UPDATE: Monday, May 25 —</b> In a statement to International Business Times regarding the alleged release of Spotify user account information by Leak …