Cybersecurity & Espionage Articles
Original Post at Asia Times
“In recent years, Chinese agents have extracted data on some of the most advanced weapons and weapons systems in the US arsenal, such as jet fighters and unmanned submersible vehicles,” states the annual report of the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, released on November 16.
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Original Post at The Washington Free Beacon
A Chinese cyber security firm is covertly working with Beijing's Ministry of State Security intelligence service in conducting cyber espionage operations, according to Pentagon intelligence officials. The company known as Boyusec, officially the Bo Yu Guangzhou Information Technology Co., is also working with China's global telecommunications company Huawei Technologies, which has been identified by U.S. intelligence agencies as linked to the Chinese military. According to an internal report by the Pentagon's Joint Staff J-2 intelligence directorate, Boyusec and Huawei are working together to produce security products that will be loaded into Chinese-manufactured computer and telephone equipment. The doctored products will allow Chinese intelligence to capture data and control computer and telecommunications equipment, said Pentagon officials familiar with the report. Original Post at ZDNet.com
In the past, tech support scams have often taken the form of simple cold calls and malware-based fake alerts which attempt to frighten PC users into thinking their PC needs a "cleaning" from companies such as Microsoft. More recently, screen lockers have also emerged. Original Post at Raconteur
Mr. Robot is possibly Hollywood’s ultimate hacker show – the chaotically unfolding story of Elliot Alderson, a cyber security engineer with emotional problems, who is recruited by a fiendishly cunning group of hacktivists in their attempt to bring down the fictitious financial giant E Corp. Original Post at Softpedia.com
YouTube is the most recent platform used by cybercriminals to sell and distribute their tools, but it turns out that not even hackers can trust their fellow “colleagues.” Original Post at Softpedia.com
Hacking a Tesla is a thing we’ve seen before, but this time a team of security researchers at a company called Promon managed to locate, unlock, and steal a car using just an Android app. Every Tesla model comes with a companion smartphone application for Android and iOS that allows owners to do basic things such as checking the battery level and the charging status, locate the vehicle, and flash the lights to find it in the parking lot. Original Post Help Net Security
Analysts at BrandProtect reviewed profiles for the 54 CEOs at Fortune 500 companies using Twitter and the 187 CEOs using LinkedIn. Of these CEOs, 19 percent were represented online by multiple Twitter accounts, while 9 percent had multiple LinkedIn accounts. Original Post at Softpedia.com
The entire debacle about security in the smartphone industry has just received another chapter and it doesn't look good for Android and iOS platforms. Original Post at The Register
Researchers have developed a proof-of-concept worm they say can set off a chain reaction that will rip through Philips Hue lightbulbs across entire cities, causing the insecure web-connected globes to flick on and off. Original Post at Softpedia.com
Microsoft has released a total of 14 security bulletins as part of this month’s Patch Tuesday cycle, with six of them considered to be critical and targeting all Windows versions on the market. Original Post at Softpedia.com
Apple attempted to bolster the security of encrypted backups with iOS 10 in the very first version, but due to a security flaw, the company offered exactly the opposite, and made backups actually easier to hack. Cupertino fixed the problem quite fast, and 10.1 introduced a fix in this regard, blocking brute force attacks and making passwords almost impossible to hack. |
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