Using AI to create artificial fingerprints that can unlock strangers’ phones… abusing electric vehicle charging stations to overwhelm the power grid… exploiting 3D printer technology to execute an all-new form of supply chain attack… These may have once sounded like far-flung ideas, but top cyber minds at New York University have been actively exploring such…
In the film “Ocean’s 11,” Danny Ocean and his team of expert cybercriminals execute a daring casino heist in glitzy Las Vegas. This past summer at the Black Hat and DEF CON conferences in Sin City, the editorial staff at SC Media attempted to pull off a less ambitious – and decidedly more legal –…
Interested in watching free episodes of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” starring Alexis Bledel? Care to look up your favorite episode of James Corden’s Carpool Karaoke? Search for them online at your own peril. McAfee has unveiled its 2019 list of the most dangerous celebrities, revealing which stars are the riskiest to search for online, based on…
Coders late last week publicly released a working exploit for the dangerous Bluekeep bug that was found and patched earlier this year in Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Protocol implementation. Designated as CVE-2019-0708, BlueKeep is a remote Windows kernel use-after-free vulnerability that could be used to create wormable attacks similar to the WannaCry ransomware incident of May…
The annual cost of worldwide data breaches will surpass $5 trillion by 2024, with North American businesses absorbing the highest share, according to a newly published Juniper Research report. Current yearly cost totals sit at $3 trillion, which means the jump to $5 trillion in five years represents an average annual growth of 11 percent.…
After peaking in 2016, the number of active hacktivist groups have since dipped precipitously, as has overall online chatter regarding hacktivism, according to a new report from researchers at Recorded Future. Furthermore, the researchers found a marked reduction in the frequency of large-scale international hacktivism campaigns. Members of the company’s Insikt Group team theorize that…
A lack of investment in cybersecurity protections could imperil the future of smart cities and the Internet of Things devices on which they run, a new report from ABI Research warns. ABI anticipates there will be 1.3 billion wide-area network smart city connections by the year 2024. Of the $135 billion projected to be invested…
An analysis of 3.9 million online posts published on underground forums found that ransomware, crypters and trojans were the most frequently referenced categories of malware and malicious tools – an indication of their popularity among forum visitors and potential cybercriminals. Web shells, remote access trojans, adware, computer viruses, FUD (fully undetectable) crypters, exploit kits and rootkits – in that…
Researchers from Boston University (BU) have discovered a way to circumvent anonymization protections on Bluetooth Low Energy devices, allowing potentially malicious actors to passively track the movements of these devices and their users. BLE devices rely on non-encrypted advertising messages to signal their availability to other devices to pair up. To prevent third-party actors from…
An analysis of workers’ cyber knowledge gaps found that ends users last year struggled most with identifying phishing threats and protecting data throughout its lifecycle, according to a new report from Proofpoint. Titled “Beyond the Phish 2019, the report incorporated data gathered from roughly 130 million answers to questions that were posed to endpoint users…
