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Senator Calls For Use Of DMARC To Curb Phishing

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Jul

2017

In a letter sent Tuesday to the Department of Homeland Security, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) called for federal agencies to implement stricter controls on e-mail that would prevent hackers from impersonating email addresses of federal agencies. Wyden called for the use of an email protocol called Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance.

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UK Energy Sector Targeted by Hackers, Says UK Cybersecurity Authority

20

Jul

2017

Hackers are believed to target the UK’s energy sector and some industrial control systems have likely been compromised, according to a recent report from UK’s National Cyber Security Centre, part of UK’s intelligence agency GCHQ. Because the activity was reported in other sectors, such as public water and other engineering-based areas, this was seen as part of a wide-spread attack.

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CoinDash Hacked During its ICO

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Jul

2017

Hackers hijacked CoinDash’s initial coin offering Monday, stealing $7.7 million in cryptocurrency from the nascent trading platform. The attack occurred during a 15-minute period for “whitelist contributors” prior to the public ICO. During that time, the hackers were able to compromise the CoinDash website and swap out the CoinDash Token Sale address with one under their control.

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