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New Password Cracking Analysis Targets Bcrypt
/in General NewsHive Systems conducts another study on cracking passwords via brute-force attacks, but it’s no longer targeting MD5.
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Popular Keyboard Apps Leak User Data: Billion Potentially Exposed
/in General NewsBy Waqas
Popular keyboard apps leak user data! Citizen Lab reports 8 out of 9 Android IMEs expose keystrokes. Change yours & protect passwords!
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North Korean Hackers Targeted Dozens of South Korean Defense Companies
/in General NewsLocal reports claimed that the hackers targeted as many as 83 defense contractors and subcontractors, and managed to steal sensitive information from 10 of them between October 2022 and July 2023, although the campaign lasted over a year.
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Major Security Flaws Expose Keystrokes of Over 1 Billion Chinese Keyboard App Users
/in General NewsSecurity vulnerabilities uncovered in cloud-based pinyin keyboard apps could be exploited to reveal users’ keystrokes to nefarious actors.
The findings come from the Citizen Lab, which discovered weaknesses in eight of nine apps from vendors like Baidu, Honor, iFlytek, OPPO, Samsung, Tencent, Vivo, and Xiaomi. The only vendor whose keyboard app did not have any security
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People Doubt Their Own Ability to Spot AI-Generated Deepfakes
/in General NewsThe actual number of people exposed to political and other deepfakes is expected to be much higher given many Americans are not able to decipher what is real versus fake, thanks to the sophistication of AI technologies.
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Swedish Signals Intelligence Agency to Take Over National Cybersecurity Center
/in General NewsAfter failing to achieve “expected results,” Sweden’s National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) is facing a range of reforms, including being brought under the control of the country’s cyber and signals intelligence agency.
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ShotSpotter Keeps Listening for Gunfire After Contracts Expire
/in General NewsInternal emails suggest that the company continued to provide gunshot data to police in cities where its contracts had been canceled.
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Pentagon Launches DIB Vulnerability Disclosure Program
/in General NewsThe DIB Vulnerability Disclosure Program (DIB-VDP), a joint venture between the DoD Cyber Crime Center (DC3), the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA), and HackerOne, will bring better vulnerability disclosure practices to the DIB.
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eScan Antivirus Update Mechanism Exploited to Spread Backdoors and Miners
/in General NewsA new malware campaign has been exploiting the updating mechanism of the eScan antivirus software to distribute backdoors and cryptocurrency miners like XMRig through a long-standing threat codenamed GuptiMiner targeting large corporate networks.
Cybersecurity firm Avast said the activity is the work of a threat actor with possible connections to a North Korean hacking group dubbed
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Study: GPT-4 Agent can Exploit Unpatched Vulnerabilities
/in General NewsAcademics at a U.S. university found that if you feed a GPT-4 artificial intelligence agent public security advisories, it can exploit unpatched “real-world” vulnerabilities without precise technical information.
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