cyber crime

Decade-old Avaya Phone Security Flaw, Patched At Last

Who can ever forget of Avaya phones and its near-monopoly of the corporate communication equipment market for Fortune 100 companies pre-Skype? As software VOIP solutions matured, companies are slowly but surely migrating away from hardware-based VOIP phones, including Avaya. For the last 10 years that Avaya ruled the offices, it harbored a remote code execution

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South Korean Debit/Credit Card Theft, At Alarming Levels

Security researchers from Gemini Advisory, a cyber threat intelligence firm, disclosed a huge sale campaign for credit/debit cards in hacker forums belonging to South Korean cardholders. The first batch of stolen card credentials was numbered to 890,000, while the second batch reached 230,000 units, all in all, the number of cards “for sale” in the

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White House Now On Red Alert In The Wake Of Russia’s Attack

Director of National Intelligence, Dan Coats revealed in a recent threat update issued by the American Intelligence Community (IC) that the U.S. government has launched several investigations looking into the cyber-warfare tactics deployed by foreign states. In a speech addressed to the Hudson Institute, Coats spoke about Russian involvement in recent attacks and labeled the country

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Here’s How Secure Remote Access Can Lockout Threats

Remote access may give employees the ability to access work-related data without being physically present, but it also puts them at risk of losing it all. Because anyone will have the power to access the organizational network when remote access is enabled, it becomes a potential target for cyber crimes that can compromise the network

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Fixing the Gap in the Cryptocurrency Security

23,952,849 Blockchain wallets, that is the total estimated number of entities that engage with cryptocurrency as of the first quarter of 2018 based on the study conducted by Statistica. The growth of the use of blockchain technology was very quick, as this new trend for speculative investment has expanded from a mere 3 million wallets

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This Is An Honest Look At The Dangers of A DDoS Attack

A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) is a cyber attack that causes a website or online service to crash and become unavailable for a certain amount of time. These attacks use multiple compromised systems to target a single website causing a denial-of-service to users of the affected site. A DDoS attack is known to affect

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