Victims of data breaches have a small reason to rejoice this week.
The post A New Hope for Victims of Data Breaches appeared first on WIRED.
A New Hope for Victims of Data Breaches
Month: July 2015
MIIS Cyber Conducts Crisis Management Training in the Balkans
MIIS Cyber director, Dr. Itamara Lochard, was the only U.S. university instructor among colleagues from the Marshall Center, International Red Cross, U.S. National Guard and other militaries to provide post-conflict stabilization training to an international cadre of nearly 180 cadets and civilian university students at the International Summer Campus. She provided classes on technical tools available in crisis management (humanitarian assistance / disaster relief) efforts. This sixth annual event, sponsored by MIIS partner Mihailo Apostolski Military Academy in Macedonia aimed to train next-generation leaders with inter-cultural awareness, academic and field-exercise skills that will allow them to excel at interoperability needed for regional and international engagements in crisis management. Participants from Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States gathered in Macedonia during 29 June – 9 July 2015.
Hackers Trick Email Systems Into Wiring Them Large Sums
Cybercriminals are exploiting publicly available information and weaknesses in corporate email systems to trick small businesses into transferring large sums of money into fraudulent bank accounts.
Major flaw could let lone-wolf hacker bring down huge swaths of Internet
A recently disclosed vulnerability in Bind, the most widely used software for translating human-friendly domain names into IP addresses used by servers, makes it possible for lone-wolf attackers to bring down huge swaths of the Internet, a security researcher has warned.
Hanesbrands Says Hackers Accessed Customer-Order Data
Hanesbrands said an unauthorized user recently accessed a database containing information on customer orders, becoming the latest major corporation hit by hackers.
Google Brings Internet Service To Sri Lanka Through, Balloons?
Google has successfully launched its “Project Loon” in Sri Lanka. The goal of the program is to use a series of high-altitude balloons to bring 3G service to underserved areas.
New vulnerability can put Android phones into permanent vegetative state
Researchers have developed an attack that puts more than 50 percent of Android phones into the digital equivalent of a persistent vegetative state in which they’re almost completely unresponsive and are unable to perform most functions, including making or receiving calls.
Hackers tweet photos with hidden code
A hack attack involving instructions hidden in photos, malicious tweets and the coding community Github is discovered by cybersecurity researchers.
Hackers Can Disable a Sniper Rifle—Or Change Its Target
If a hacker attacks your TrackingPoint smart gun over its Wi-Fi connection, you may find the weapon is aiming at a different target than you think.
Researchers Warn Against ‘Autonomous Weapons’ Arms Race
Already, researcher Stuart Russell says, sentry robots in South Korea “can spot and track a human being for a distance of 2 miles — and can very accurately kill that person.”
You must be logged in to post a comment.