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DHS and FBI Announce Threats to Energy and Critical Infrastructure

In what is an unusual move by the FBI and DHS, CERT released a security bulletin saying that attackers were going after government entities and critical infrastructure and had been doing so at least since May. They said this is a multi-stage attack, going after low security and small networks and then moving inside those […]

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New Android Malware Encrypts Phone and Changes PIN

The Doublelocker malware is a new strain of Android malware.  Rather than finding some vulnerability in the Android OS, it ASKS the user politely, may I please install this malware on your computer.  It does this by pretending to be, for example, an Adobe Flash update.  Since Flash updates are so common, some people don’t […]

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KRACK – A WiFi Attack That Affects Almost Everyone

US CERT (Homeland Security’s Computer Emergency Response Team AKA Computer Emergency Readiness Team) released an alert today for an attack named KRACK for Key Reinstallation Attack. While an article on ARS Technica says that this attack is especially dangerous for Android, Linux and OpenBSD (so much for open source being secure), the Homeland Security alert […]

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