U.S. Nuclear Regulator Hacked Three Times in Three Years
Hackers hit the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) three separate times over the past three years.
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"Distrust and caution are the parents of security" - Benjamin Franklin
Siemens Patches DoS Vulnerability in SIMATIC S7 PLC
Siemens released an update for its SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU last week, patching a denial of service vulnerability in the programmable logic controller.
Google Fixes 12 Vulnerabilities in Chrome 36
Google patched its Chrome browser this week, fixing 12 vulnerabilities including both a serious information disclosure bug and a use-after-free vulnerability that could let users obtain potentially sensitive information and execute arbitrary code.
A hole has been fixed in an industrial control system data management server that if left unpatched could result in a remotely exploitable DoS condition.
One of Canada’s premier research and technology organizations was hit with an apparent cyber-attack recently that forced the cooperative offline.
The informational systems that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) runs are fraught with vulnerabilities and what the U.S. Department of Commerce deem “significant security deficiencies.”
A new report claims attackers, apparently based in China, were able to hack into three Israeli defense firms to make off with sensitive military data in 2011.
Siemens released an update for two builds of its SIMATIC automation system this week, addressing a quintet of issues, four of which are remotely exploitable.
New ransomware has been dubbed Onion by researchers at Kaspersky Lab as its creators use command and control servers hidden in the Tor Network (a/k/a The Onion Router) to obscure their malicious activity.
A glut of Wordpress sites have fallen victim to both malware infections and a series of brute force attacks that have making the rounds over the past several days, researchers claim.
