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Hackers hit Scottish Parliament with 'brute force cyber-attack'
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2017-08-16 03:19
IT systems at the Scottish Parliament have been struck by a "brute force cyber-attack" from an unknown source. Staff have been advised to change passwords as a result of the attack.
Paul Grice, Chief Executive at Holyrood, says that the attack is similar to the one Westminster suffered back in June. The hackers have attempted to crack passwords as well as trying to access parliamentary emails.
Creepy backdoor found in NetSarang server management software
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2017-08-16 03:17
Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have found a well-hidden backdoor in NetSang's server management software.
The secret access route, dubbed Shadowpad by its discoverers, lurks in the nssock2.dll library within NetSarang's Xmanager and Xshell software suites. It pings out every eight hours to a command-and-control server with the identity of the compromised computer, its network details, and user names.
Criminals are using the Windows Object Linking Interface in Powerpoint to install malware
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2017-08-16 03:16
Cyber criminals are using Microsoft PowerPoint to install malware. The Windows Object Linking Embedding (OLE) interface is the technology that allows exporting part of a document with a different editing application than the original. According to a report from Trend Micro (via Neowin), users are exploiting the use with PowerPoint slideshows.
Researchers report >4,000 apps that secretly record audio and steal logs
Submitted by l33tdawg on Sun, 2017-08-13 22:20
A single threat actor has aggressively bombarded Android users with more than 4,000 spyware apps since February, and in at least three cases the actor snuck the apps into Google's official Play Market, security researchers said Thursday.
Voting Machine Hackers Have 5 Tips to Save the Next Election
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2017-08-07 14:58
American democracy depends on the sanctity of the vote. In the wake of the 2016 election, that inviolability is increasingly in question, but given that there are 66 weeks until midterm elections, and 14 weeks until local 2017 elections, there's plenty of time to fix the poor state of voting technology, right? Wrong. To secure voting infrastructure in the US in time for even the next presidential election, government agencies must start now.
