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German industrial control system manufacturer Siemens announced Monday that it had patched holes in some of its products that appear to resemble holes used by the popular Stuxnet worm in 2010.If left unpatched, vulnerabilities in the company’s Simatic STEP 7 and Simatic PCS 7 software could have allowed the loading of malicious Microsoft Dynamic-link Library files. This in turn could lead to an attack against systems that use STEP 7.
The information of nearly 4,000 patients at Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) may have been leaked according to a report from the Boston Globe over the weekend. A laptop was stolen from the Harvard-associated teaching hospital on May 22 that could yield the incomplete medical records of 3,900 patients.
A new survey shows that 50 percent of employees think that their company has been the victim of a targeted attack. Security firm Proofpoint found in its survey that these targeted attacks continue to be a nuisance, affecting both small and large organizations.
A new international cyber security alliance announced plans to put the Continents best heads together to try to envision future cyber security trends.
In this special edition Threatpost editor-in-chief Dennis Fisher talks with founding editor, Ryan Naraine about Mac security. They discuss why it took longer for the security community to understand the vulnerabilities of the Mac and when these conversations started. You’ll hear how cybercriminals are targeting OS X more than ever before and what you need to know to protect yourself from an attack.
A new variety of spyware has been targeting users in Iran, Israel and the Middle East for the last eight months according to joint research from Israeli security software firm Seculert and Kaspersky Lab. The new malware is using a variety of odd techniques and misdirection to entice users to install it, and researchers say it is targeting a specific group of potentially high-value targets.
In a twist on Tolstoy’s famous observation that “all happy families are alike,” the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) is warning that the public is being told that ‘all data breaches are alike,’ as corporations paint a worryingly bland portrait of breaches and other data loss incidents affecting their customers.
Dozens of individuals from Winchester, a small Kentucky town east of Lexington have been targeted by hackers, according to a report earlier this week in the Lexington Herald-Leader. The newspaper claims between 50 and 100 diners at Puerta Grande, a small Mexican restaurant, were hit with bank fraud at some point in the last two weeks.
Instagram has patched a flaw in its photo sharing application that could have allowed anyone to add themselves as friends to accounts and view information and photos that were set to private.
Researchers analyzing the Dark Comet remote access Trojan (RAT) program say that data from more than 400 campaigns suggests the malicious program is being used for a wide range of jobs, from attacks on online gamers, to potential hacks of air force bases and government Web sites.
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