25 Apr 2024
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 4/25/2024

Feds charge Iranian nationals for cyberattacks against US government The US government has charged and sanctioned four Iranian nationals over claims they carried out a yearslong hacking campaign against US government agencies and companies. It also accuses the group of waging these attacks on behalf of the Iranian government. An indictment unsealed on Tuesday alleges that from around 2016 through at least April 2021, the four individuals waged cyberattacks against “more than a dozen” US-based companies, along with the US departments…
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28 Dec 2022
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 12/28/2022

Biometric devices sold on eBay reportedly contained sensitive US military data German researchers who purchased biometric capture devices on eBay found sensitive US military data stored on their memory cards, The New York Times has reported. That included fingerprints, iris scans, photographs, names and descriptions of the individuals, mostly from Iraq and Afghanistan. Many worked with the US army and could be targeted if the devices fell into the wrong hands, according to the report. A group…
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08 Nov 2022
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 11/08/2022

Water sector in the US and Israel still unprepared to defeat cyber attacks Ariel Stern, a former Israeli Air Force captain, warns that the US and Israel are still unprepared to defeat a cyber attack against the water sector that could be orchestrated by enemy states like Iran. Stern highlighted the dangers for providers of critical infrastructure and issued his warning following the ransomware attack that in august disrupted the IT operations of South Staffordshire…
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01 Dec 2020
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 12/01/2020

Gift card hack exposed – you pay, they play As you probably know, gift cards that you purchase online are typically delivered by email to a recipient of your choosing as a secret code and a registration link. So, receiving a gift card code is a bit like getting hold of the number, expiry date and security code from a prepaid credit card – loosely speaking, whoever has the code can spend it. Although gift…
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12 Oct 2020
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 10/12/2020

Comcast says gigabit downloads and uploads are now possible over cable Comcast's cable Internet still has a heavy emphasis on download speeds, as even its gigabit-download service only comes with 35Mbps uploads. But that may not be the case forever, as today Comcast announced a "technical milestone" that can deliver gigabit-plus download and upload speeds over existing cable wires. Specifically, Comcast said it conducted "a trial delivering 1.25Gbps upload and download speeds over a live production network using Network Function…
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09 Sep 2020
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 09/09/2020

Amazon, Apple, and Google’s open-source smart home standard is on track for a 2021 launch Project Connected Home over IP — the ambitious attempt to bring together Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance with a unified, open-source smart home platform — has just posted its latest update on the project. The group has announced (in the first major update since the standard was revealed) that work on the project is still ongoing, and it’s targeting a…
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