2 More Hospitals Hit by Growing Wave of Ransomware Attacks, As Feds Issue Warning
Hospitals in New York and Oregon were targeted on Tuesday by threat actors who crippled systems and forced ambulances with sick patients to be rerouted, in some cases.
IoT
Lax Security Exposes Smart-Irrigation Systems to Attack Across the Globe
Systems designed by Mottech Water Management were misconfigured and put in place and connected to the internet without password protections.
IoT Device Takeovers Surge 100 Percent in 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic, coupled with an explosion in the number of connected devices, have led to a swelling in IoT infections observed on wireless networks.
Intel’s addition of memory encryption to its upcoming 3rd generation Xeon Scalable processors matches AMD’s Secure Memory Encryption (SME) feature.
Intel and Google are urging users to update the Linux kernel to version 5.9 or later.
The Clop group attacked Software AG, a German conglomerate with operations in more than 70 countries, threatening to dump stolen data if the whopping $23 million ransom isn’t paid.
The streaming box allows arbitrary code execution as root, paving the way to pilfering social-media tokens, passwords, messaging history and more.
Microsoft and partners went after the botnet using a copyright infringement tactic and hunting down C2 servers.
Immersive Labs Researcher takes advantage of lax Fitbit privacy controls to build a malicious spyware watch face.
Ethical hackers so far have earned nearly $300K in payouts from the Apple bug-bounty program for discovering 55 bugs, 11 of them critical, during a three-month hack.
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