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Cyber Defense Magazine - March 2018 has arrived
Pierluigi Paganini March 31, 2018

Cyber Defense Magazine March 2018 Edition has arrived. We hope you enjoy this month's edition...packed with over 170 pages of excellent content.  InfoSec Knowledge is Power.  We have 6 years of e ...

Grindr gay-dating app exposed millions of users' private data, messages, locations
Pierluigi Paganini March 31, 2018

According to an NBC report, the Grindr gay-dating app was affected by 2 security issues (now patched) that could expose the information of its more than 3 million daily users. Every day we read of ...

Fauxpersky Keylogger masqueraded as Kaspersky Antivirus and spreads via USB drives
Pierluigi Paganini March 31, 2018

  Security researchers at Cybereason recently discovered a credential-stealing malware dubbed Fauxpersky, that is masquerading as Kaspersky Antivirus and spreading via infected USB drives. Fa ...

Systems at a Power Company in India infected by a ransomware
Pierluigi Paganini March 30, 2018

A ransomware infected systems at the Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam power company in India, crooks demanded 10 million Rupees to get the data back. The Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam power com ...

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Artificial Intelligence
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Hacking
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Security
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Reports
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