The UK National Cyber Security Centre published an advisory this week regarding the ongoing and increasing risk of DNS hijacking. DNS is the system that converts domain names to IP addresses allowing the world wide web to function. Its architecture is designed to be distributed in order to be resilient and stable. This distributed and […]
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Formjacking is a type of cyber attack that can be used by an attacker to steal sensitive information that is entered by website users through forms. Most usually this type of attack targets ecommerce sites to obtain payment card details and personal information that are entered by customers; however, Formjacking attacks can target any website which
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In a recently published report on the state of the Internet security, Akami Research notes that they detected an average of 115 million credential stuffing attacks against their clients each day in 2018. Credential Stuffing is, according to OWASP: “the automated injection of breached username/password pairs in order to fraudulently gain access to user accounts.
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Peebles Media Group is suing a former employee who fell victim to a CEO Fraud email which cost her employer almost £200,000. CEO Fraud is a common type of cyber-crime which targets businesses. Because the CEO or Managing Director of a firm is easy to identify – often being listed on the company website or
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A wave of DNS hijack attacks has been sweeping across Europe, the Middle-East and America according to recently published reports from FireEye and Cisco. While the attacks are creative and sophisticated, the root attack vector is often a simple credential compromise to the DNS control panel of an organisation’s domain name registrar. The scale of
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51% Attack succeeds and over $1million Ethereum Classic is double spent The cornerstone design assumption in blockchain systems such as Bitcoin and Ethereum is that there is a large community pool of honest participants who mutually concur and authenticate blockchain events. Page 3 of Satoshi Nakamoto’s original whitepaper titled: “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System”
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A massive security breach in Norway’s Health South-East Regional Health Authority may have exposed the personal health records of 2.9 million people. Covering ten counties, Health South-East RHA is responsible for the health care of 57% of Norway’s population. In 2013, Norway cemented their reputation for excellence in healthcare when they were placed first on
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The global hotel chain Hyatt Hotels informed their customers this week that their credit card details may have been stolen as a direct result of a recent security breach. Chuck Floyd (Global President of Operations for Hyatt Hotels) revealed in a statement that the security breach took place between March 18, 2017 and July 2, 2017
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