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Yesterday, security research company IOActive released research detailing several cybersecurity vulnerabilities found in Panasonic Avionics In-Flight Entertainment (IFE) systems used by a number of major airlines including United, Virgin, American Airlines, Emirates, AirFrance, Singapore, and Qatar, among others. The vulnerabilities in these systems could allow hackers to ‘hijack’ passengers’ in-flight displays and, in some instances, potentially access their credit card information. These vulnerabilities could also potentially act as an entry point to the wider network, depending...

Research by financial technology company Intelligent Environments has found that over a third (34 per cent) of people feel they have too many passwords to remember, so write them down More than a fifth (21 per cent) have shared their PINs with colleagues, friends or family members to withdraw money on their behalf More than one in ten (14 per cent) haven’t altered how often they change their PINs, despite them being victims of fraud...

Bitdefender, the innovative security software solutions provider, joined the No More Ransom initiative supported by Europol contributing to the global fight against ransomware - the fastest-growing cyber threat to date. Free decryption tools provided by Bitdefender are now available, offering ransomware victims the possibility to decrypt their files without having to pay criminals to do so. The decryption tools developed by Bitdefender have been added to nomoreransom.org, an online portal available in English, Dutch, French,...

Security researchers at WatchGuard Technologies warn of ransomworms, IoT botnet zombies, civilian cyber cold war casualties and the use of AI in attacks in the next 12 months.  2017 will see the first ever Ransomworm, causing Ransomware to spread. Cybercriminals will take ransomware to the next level in 2017 by introducing the kind of auto-propagating characteristics traditionally found in network worms like CodeRed and Conficker. This will result in a breed of ransomware designed to...

An increase in the number of reported cyber-attacks over the last year indicates that businesses still need to do a lot more to minimise their security risk. With the prospect of a large Global Data Protection Regulation fine looming for companies that fail to take the latest threats seriously, discover the top ten ways to minimise your organisation’s cyber security posture over the year ahead.     Source: Redscan

Tenable Network Security®, Inc., a global leader in cybersecurity, announced today that Amit Yoran will become the company’s chairman and CEO effective Jan. 3, 2017. “Tenable is one of the most innovative companies in security, and is leading the evolution of vulnerability management into a next-generation technology that addresses some of the most important and fundamental security challenges of today,” said Yoran. “Over the course of my career, I've met with thousands of IT and...

Another day, another Yahoo! breach. This time affecting 1 BILLION accounts and completely separate from the already disclosed 2014 breach. The Guru was inundated with great comments and reactions from some of the world's best cybersecurity experts. Lee Munson, security researcher, Comparitech.com: “When Yahoo admitted earlier this year that it had been attacked in 2013, there were suggestions that the number of compromised accounts could place the company somewhere near the top of the pile...

 Agari, a leading cybersecurity company, today announced the release of a new book by Agari Chief Scientist Markus Jakobsson and other cybersecurity thought leaders, Understanding Social Engineering Based Scams. The book describes the increased use of social engineering for email scams, and offers tools and techniques to identify these trends, as well as countermeasures to prevent these attacks. Examples of social engineering attacks, which are typically launched via email, include phishing, spear phishing and Business...

Menlo Security, a pioneer of malware isolation, today announced the availability of its State of The Web 2016 report. The surprising results reveal that nearly half (46%) of the Internet’s top 1 million web sites, as ranked by Alexa, are risky.  This is largely due to vulnerable software running on web servers and on underlying ad network domains. The results are significant because risky sites have never been easier to exploit, and traditional security products...

As far as cybersecurity goes, we bid farewell to a year replete with high-profile attacks that have jeopardised large corporations and private users. Ransomware attacks from Petya, Trojans such as Gugi for Android, the spyware Pegasus, PunkeyPOS, or large-scale attacks targeting PoS (Point of Sale) terminals as well as the recent DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks have affected large organizations and international communication networks. PandaLabs, Panda Security’s anti-malware laboratory, presents a list of what...