The security/cryptography industry has recently taken a battering. Hot on the heels of the KRACK WiFi network vulnerability comes an even bigger, more calamitous and more widespread hazard - the ROCA hack has exposed millions of smartcards, laptops, devices and secure systems to potential criminal activity. Infineon Technologies AG is a multi-billion dollar, 18-year old … Read More.
They have called it KRACK — Key Reinstallation Attack - and it uncovers a vulnerability in practically every modern WiFi network in the world. The flaw lies at the heart of the WPA2 security protocol that controls access and encrypts traffic. It can be leveraged to snoop on confidential information such as emails, credit card … Read More.
On June 27, 2017 , opportunistic cybercriminals took advantage of exploits leaked by Shadow Brokers, a group that had previously released cyberweapons used by the National Security Agency. The latest exploit was a variant of Ransom: Win32/Petya that was initially seeded through the update mechanism of an accounting software program used in Ukraine. Since then, … Read More.
The pacemaker itself is not a new piece of technology. Interfacing it with a network – including the publicly accessible Internet – is a relatively new concept and opens the door to potentially life-threatening security vulnerabilities. Recently, the newly developed Pacemaker Ecosystem, the technology framework for connecting next-gen Pacemakers to the Internet of Things (IoT) … Read More.
The biggest global ransomware cyberattack on record has impacted over 130,000 individual computers across over 100 countries in just 48 hours. That figure is an estimate as of Saturday midnight May 13, and will certainly increase over the next few days as more victims are identified. So What Exactly Happened? Victims see a ransom demand … Read More.
The 32-year-old son of a Russian parliamentarian and an ally to Vladimir Putin has been sentenced to 2 7 years in prison by the U.S. government for causing damages worth $169 million. Roman Selenev, known as “Track2” in the cybercrime underworld was described as a “pioneer” of credit card data theft. His modus operandi was … Read More.