US, first report for the Justice Department’s Cyber-Digital Task Force
The main issue is the cyber security of the elections against foreign cyber attacks. Focus also on cybercrime, use of Internet to recruit and spread violence.
FBI warns the banks: Cybercrime plans a major global scale cyber attack on ATMs
The Agency, as Krebs on Security reported, sent a confidential alert to organization, urging them to review their cyber security to counter this offensive.
SATCOM are at high risk of cyber attacks and can be used as a RF weapon
Santamarta at Black Hat 2018: satellite communications, used by ships, planes and military are vulnerable. Hackers can use them to launch “cyber-physical attacks”.
Accenture: the Top 5 key areas that are influencing the cyber threat landscape
The cyber security experts indentified them in the “Cyber Threatscape 2018” report. They go from Iran to APTs, through supply chains and miner malware.
La social engineering è diventata l’arma migliore di cybercrime e hacker malevoli
Crescono le cyber truffe “Technical support fraud”, grazie alle info personali condivise dagli utenti sui social media. La falla diventa l’essere umano.
Social engineering become the best weapon for cybercrime and malicious hackers
The Technical support frauds are increasing, thanks to the personal info shared by users on social media. Pay attention, prevention is always better than cure.
Companies are targeted by a ransomware masked by curriculum vitae
An independent cyber security researcher found that the cybercrime spreads variant of the Hermes malware, playing on numbers rather than on complexity.
IoT video surveillance systems are in danger of cyber attacks. Also in Italy
The cyber security researchers: over 30,000 DVRs connected to CCTV systems compromised due to the firmware. The cybercrime could take control of them.
USA, Microsoft ask Congress to regulate facial recognition ASAP
Brad Smith, president of the Redmond based group wrote a post to underline the needs of "thoughtful" government oversight to prevent its abuse.
Weak passwords still remain one of the best weapons for the cybercrime
Despite the many warnings and cyber attacks, many people and aorganizations use simple passwords. Sometimes 10 minutes value millions of dollars or euros.