Cybersecurity

DePauw University warns of data breach as ransomware attacks on colleges surge

DePauw University warned students this week that their personal information may have been accessed by hackers who attacked the school. The school newspaper reported that on November 27, current and prospective students were sent letters notifying them of a data leak and providing them with one year of free identity protection services. The liberal arts […]

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P2Pinfect – New Variant Targets MIPS Devices – Cado Security | Cloud Forensics & Incident Response

Summary A new P2Pinfect variant compiled for the Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipelined Stages (MIPS) architecture has been discovered This demonstrates increased targeting of routers, Internet of Things (IoT) and other embedded devices by those behind P2Pinfect The new sample includes updated evasion mechanisms, making it more difficult for researchers to dynamically analyse These include Virtual […]

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New BLUFFS Bluetooth Attack Expose Devices to Adversary-in-the-Middle Attacks

Dec 04, 2023NewsroomEncryption / Technology New research has unearthed multiple novel attacks that break Bluetooth Classic’s forward secrecy and future secrecy guarantees, resulting in adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) scenarios between two already connected peers. The issues, collectively named BLUFFS, impact Bluetooth Core Specification 4.2 through 5.4. They are tracked under the identifier CVE-2023-24023 (CVSS score: 6.8) and […]

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Fortune-telling website WeMystic exposes 13M+ user records

Fortune-telling website WeMystic exposes 13M+ user records Pierluigi Paganini December 02, 2023 WeMystic, a website on astrology, numerology, tarot, and spiritual orientation, left an open database exposing 34GB of sensitive data about the platforms’ users. Telling the future is a tricky business, and failure to foretell your own mishaps doesn’t help. The content platform WeMystic […]