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Friendly warnings left in unsecured Amazon S3 buckets which expose private data
Ethical hackers are warning businesses who use Amazon S3 cloud storage if they have left data exposed for anyone to access… by leaving “friendly warnings” on the servers. Making sensitive data available to unauthorised users on unsecured Amazon’s cloud-based AWS storage servers (known as “buckets”) is nothing new. Well-known organisations […]
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How will WPA3 improve WiFi security?
In October 2017, researchers made public a serious vulnerability in WPA2, the security protocol that protects most of today’s WiFi networks. This discovery put the protocol’s security in the spotlight and led to discussions about the need for a new standard. Finally, the WiFi Alliance, the organization that certifies WiFi devices, announced WPA3, […]
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Vulnerabilities reached a historic peak in 2017
Vulnerabilities are one of the elements frequently identified in security incidents and, together with other threats like exploits and malware, constitute a latent risk. In 2017, the number of vulnerabilities reported reached its historic peak, smashing records set in previous years. Not only that, but the number of vulnerabilities identified as critical also […]
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UK-led police operation quashes Luminosity Link RAT
A hacking tool that was able to give full remote control of a victim’s computer to anyone with nefarious intentions has been taken down in an international law-enforcement operation, according to announcements by the United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA) and by Europol. The remote access Trojan (RAT), called Luminosity Link, was peddled on […]
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