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In recent years the perception of the role of hackers is completely changed, in the past these high-skilled professionals were viewed as dangerous threats that needed to be kept at armâs length, meanwhile today they are highly sought from private companies and intelligence agencies. “An increasingly large number of modern business operations rely on an understanding of the […]
US SOCOM admitted that Counter-Terrorism Special Forces scrutinize FaceBook and other social media to handle potentially useful information. Exactly two years ago I wrote about the use of social media in the Military. I explained why social media platforms represent a powerful instrument for activities operated by governments and intelligence agencies. Modern social media networks are actively used by […]
Onapsis study found that over 95% of SAP systems are exposed to vulnerabilities that could lead to full compromise of the companyâs business. SAP is one of the most popular enterprise software used by companies to manage business operations and customer relations. A recent study conducted by the SAP solutions provider revealed that more than 95 percent […]
Law enforcement identifies and located suspects members of a criminal organization that used gas pump skimmers, by using the GPS technology. The number of attacks against ATMs located in supermarkets and Gas pumps is constantly increasing, the crooks use credit and debit card skimmers that use different technologies to steal card data and steal them. Today […]
Hackers have a new tool in their arsenal dubbed Facebook Friends Mapper that allows them to crawl Facebook Hidden Friends list just in a click. Facebook users can protect their privacy by setting the “privacy level” for every information related their profile or content they post online. Users can decide to completely set as private the information in […]
Police worldwide are warning of a social media game dubbed game of 72 that is challenging teenagers to disappear for three long days. Any abuse of technology against children and youngster can have devastating effects social media them, their lives and their harmony of their families. Social media are among the paradigms that can be transformed […]
A Google study on Ad injection activities revealed that more than 5% of unique IPs visiting Google-owned websites had at least one ad injector installed. According to a new report published by Google 5.5% of unique daily IP addresses visiting google-owned websites have at least on ad injector installed, superfish.com is the most popular, being […]
More than four million smart meters and similar devices worldwide are open to cyber attacks due to the security issued in the Open Smart Grid Protocol. The Open Smart Grid Protocol (OSGP) is a family of specifications published by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) that are implemented today by more than four million smart […]
To address the risk PCI DSS 3.1 updates requirements 2.2.3, 2.3 and 4.1 to remove SSL and early TLS as examples of strong cryptography.  âThe National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has identified the Secure Socket Layers (SSL) v3.0 protocol as no longer being acceptable for protection of data due to inherent weaknesses within the […]