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Acecard malware is one of the most dangerous Android banking Trojans ever seen. It is capable of attacking nearly 50 different online financial apps and services and can bypass Google Play store’s security measures. During the third quarter of 2015, Kaspersky Lab’s Anti-malware Research Team detected an unusual increase in the number of mobile banking attacks in Australia. It looked suspicious - the main reason for this increase was a single banking Trojan: Acecard. View full...

Fake wireless computer mice and keyboards can be used to compromise laptops from up to 100 metres away using the portable peripherals from at least seven big vendors including Logitech, Microsoft, and Amazon, software engineer Marc Newlin says. The attacks target the typically cleartext and insecure communications between a non-Bluetooth port and mouse, as opposed to the wireless link to a keyboard which is often encrypted. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register

Cylance revealed a multi-year, multi-attack campaign against the Japanese critical infrastructure. Their research uncovers how a well-organized and well-funded threat group, likely associated with a nation/state, has used a variety of attack vectors and techniques to infiltrate and gather sensitive information from companies in electric utilities, oil and gas, finance, transportation and construction. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Help Net Security

Cyber security experts have issued warnings Monday on internet safety after a Lubbock business was apparently attacked by hackers. The computer systems at Caprock Business Forms were non-operational Friday, following the attack, which was triggered by a suspicious email opened by an employee, according to staff. “We’ve got a really good IT guy and our software people have been able to help us through quite a bit of it too,” said Caprock Business Forms personnel manager...

Here at IBM InterConnect conference in Las Vegas this week, it's clear IBM is pushing forward with its strategy of building services and solutions for cloud and big data around open-source initiatives. A lot of the stuff is impactful, of course, but perhaps the most impactful of all will be IBM's sprinkling of holy water on Blockchain, the highly distributed global ledger that is mainly used to keep track of Bitcoin transactions, but may see...

Hacktivist group Anonymous has targeted the Cincinnati police department by exposing online the personal information of officers and their families following the shooting of a black man who was believed to be unarmed. Paul Gaston, 37, was shot nine times by officers of the Cincinnati police after he allegedly failed to comply with orders to lie flat on the ground and then appeared to be reaching for a weapon, which turned out to be a...

Shady public Wi-Fi networks are up there with Nigerian scammers for the most cliched way to get hacked. But just as surely as people will continue using “password12", set up free Wi-Fi, and people will come. To prove the point, researchers from Avast set up a bunch of likely-looking Wi-Fi networks at Barcelona airport, in order to trap people passing through for Mobile World Congress. Using names like “Starbucks”, “Airport_Free_Wifi_AENA“ and “MWC Free WiFi”, the...

Warrensburg – About 6,200 accounts at Western Missouri Medical Center were turned over to a collection agency due to a glitch in the computer changeover, interim President/CEO Darinda Reberry said. Reberry said the glitch occurred among patients who had several accounts that the new computer system did not link. She said patients may have made payments that were credited to one account. That account may have had a credit, but the computer did not transfer...

The National Security Agency on Thursday defended hiding key details of its process for deciding whether to exploit or disclose software security flaws that make people vulnerable to hackers. The Electronic Frontier Foundation sued the NSA in 2014 for withholding records on the government’s handling of “zero days,” newly discovered security flaws not yet fixed by software developers. The lawsuit was filed after Bloomberg News reported that for two years the government knew about and exploited...

The Linux Mint website was hacked over the weekend and the regular ISO of the latest distribution of the popular operating system replaced by a version that contained a backdoor. The attack happened on Saturday February 20th, but the developers behind the operating system claim that it was cleared up by Sunday morning. Anyone who downloaded an ISO of Mint on the Saturday is advised not to use it. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Computing