DETROIT - A new survey shows 77 percent of organizations in transport and automotive markets have been hit with IoT-focused cyberattacks during the past twelve months. Of those that experienced a cyberattack, 91 percent had an impact on the organization, including operational downtime and compromised customer data and/or brand or reputational damage. Perhaps most alarming,
SEATTLE - Microsoft said Monday that it had identified yet another attempt to hack political organizations and that the attack came from what it suspects is a group of professional hackers working for the Russian government. The tech giant spotted and neutralized websites that were attempting to impersonate the sites of conservative think tanks. If this all sounds
WASHINGTON DC - The US government wishes it had gotten the memo on Spectre and Meltdown sooner. On Wednesday, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation held a hearing on cybersecurity issues related to the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities, which left hundreds of millions of computer chips open to attacks. The Spectre and Meltdown flaws were
SAN FRANCISCO - After Wednesday's mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, thousands of tweets poured in using the hashtag #guncontrolnow and jumped on the trending topic #Parklandshooting. These weren't coming from Americans with thoughts on the country's gun-rights debate. They were from Russian-controlled bots jumping on this divisive issue. Among the most tweeted two
BEER-SHEVA, Israel – Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Malware Lab researchers are warning medical imaging device manufacturers and healthcare providers to become more diligent in protecting medical imaging equipment from cyber threats. In their new paper, “Know Your Enemy: Characteristics of Cyber-Attacks on Medical Imaging Devices,” Malware Lab researchers demonstrate the relative ease of exploiting unpatched medical devices,
HONOLULU, Hawaii - In mid-January Hawaiian residents and visitors received a text that warned a ballistic missile was on its way, driving them into a panic as they searched for shelter and contact loved ones. Trouble was the alert was a mistake. The warning resulted when someone pushed the wrong button on a computer screen.
BEER-SHEVA, Israel - Cyber security researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev developed an innovative firewall program that adds a missing layer of security in Android cellphones and monitors for malicious code. Earlier this year, Dr. Yossi Oren and his team of researchers in the BGU Department of Software and Information Systems Engineering, discovered a
BEER-SHEVA, Israel - When mobile phone users crack a touchscreen, often they will buy a new one online, or at a local repair shop, rather than from the company that originally built the phone. By doing so, they open the door to hackers who sell compromised screens that let them take control of a users
DETROIT - An educational event to show small to medium-sized businesses how to protect their clients’ data from cyberattack will be held Sept. 12 at Bamboo Detroit by Auxiom. And the best part is SMBS-101 is free. “Small and medium-sized businesses are extremely vulnerable to coming under attack,” said Auxiom CEO Matt Loria. “Especially because
ROYAL OAK - A vending machine company in Wisconsin shocked the world when it said on Aug. 1 it will embed an RFID chip in the hands of employees who volunteer to pay for snacks, log into the building and other ID tag type digital information. Dan Lohrmann, Chief Strategist & Chief Security Officer at
