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Netflix is ready to invite researchers worldwide to participate in the firm's bug bounty program and has now made the scheme public. On Wednesday, the content streaming service, which caters for roughly 117 million customers worldwide by offering films and TV shows, said in a post on Medium that a public bug bounty program has now been launched. Over the past five years, Netflix has been accepting vulnerability reports from hackers and has been patching bugs through...

82% of boards are concerned with email fraud, and 59% consider it a top security risk – no longer just an IT issue. Yet 30% of respondents to a survey conducted by Censuswide cited a lack of executive support as a key challenge to email fraud protection deployment, according to Proofpoint. “Email fraud is highly pervasive and deceptively simple; hackers don’t need to include attachments or URLs, emails are distributed in fewer volumes, and typically...

Most manufacturers have connected their operational technology – including industrial control systems and robotic equipment –to the internet, yet the lack of basic security protocols leave these companies open to cyberattacks. Industrial security company Malcrawler pinpointed these dangers at Kaspersky Lab’s Security Analyst Summit earlier this month. Dewan Chowdhury, founder of MalCrawler, said that many robotics that work as part of industrial systems on manufacturing floors are still leveraging outdated and unsupported operating systems –...

Most manufacturers have connected their operational technology – including industrial control systems and robotic equipment –to the internet, yet the lack of basic security protocols leave these companies open to cyberattacks. Industrial security company Malcrawler pinpointed these dangers at Kaspersky Lab’s Security Analyst Summit earlier this month. Dewan Chowdhury, founder of MalCrawler, said that many robotics that work as part of industrial systems on manufacturing floors are still leveraging outdated and unsupported operating systems –...

The FBI has raided the home of US intelligence contractor John Weed who is suspected of leaking classified blueprints online via a fake Facebook account. On Monday, the Feds confirmed to The Register they have executed a search warrant at the Virginia home of John Glenn Weed, who worked for the National Reconnaissance Office – which runs Uncle Sam's spy satellite fleet. The NRO called in the g-men after a screenshot of its classified source...

Cyber security breaches in the Middle East are widespread and frequently undetected, with 30 percent of the region’s attacks targeting operational technology (OT), finds a new study by Siemens and Ponemon Institute. The study, which examines the region’s oil and gas sector, reveals that while firms have begun to invest in protecting their assets from cyber threats, more needs to be done to increase awareness and the deployment rate of technology if they are to...

CEO Alexander Nix has been suspended after a second Channel 4 report showed him claiming credit for the election of Donald Trump. The report, which aired on Tuesday, saw Nix boasting of running the "digital campaign" for Trump's election team, helping him to secure "tens of thousands" of votes in three crucial states. He also admitted to using encrypted email service ProtonMail to proactively delete potential evidence. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Inquirer

Firmware updates are available for a wide range of security flaws that are bound to cause a lot of problems on the IoT landscape. The vulnerabilities affect Geutebrück-made IP-based security cameras, but the researchers who uncovered the flaws suspect the same vulnerable firmware might have been used for IP cameras sold by other vendors such as Ganz, Cap, Visualint, THRIVE Intelligence, and UDP Technology. This is only speculation because researchers were able to confirm that...

Security professionals in the enterprise are facing an uphill battle to maintain control of corporate networks. Data breaches and cyberattacks are rampant, sensitive information belonging to both companies and individuals is spilling unchecked into the underbelly of the Internet, and with the emergence of state-sponsored threat actors, it is becoming more and more difficult for organizations to keep up. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: ZDNet

Security professionals in the enterprise are facing an uphill battle to maintain control of corporate networks. Data breaches and cyberattacks are rampant, sensitive information belonging to both companies and individuals is spilling unchecked into the underbelly of the Internet, and with the emergence of state-sponsored threat actors, it is becoming more and more difficult for organizations to keep up. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: ZDNet