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Over the last few years, the number of “APT-related” incidents described in the media has grown significantly. For many of these, though, the designation “APT”, indicating an “Advanced Persistent Threat”, is usually an exaggeration. With some notable exceptions, few of the threat actors usually described in the media are advanced. These exceptions, which in our […]

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Mozilla on Monday announced that download protection in Firefox 48 has been expanded to include potentially unwanted software and uncommon downloads. Mozilla introduced download protection two years ago in Firefox 31 on Windows, then added it to Mac and Linux releases in Firefox 39. Designed to warn users when they were about to download harmful files, […]

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Millions of point-of-sale systems and hotel room locks can be hacked by temporarily placing a small, inexpensive device several inches away from their card readers. The device, due to be presented Sunday at the DEF CON conference in Las Vegas, is the creation of Weston Hecker, a senior security engineer at Rapid7. It was inspired […]

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