Cybersecurity

Read the latest Cybersecurity news on the Packt Hub. We feature up-to-date articles on IT security and hacking. We also feature the latest software security updates and cyber security threats.

SBI bank

SBI data leak in India results in information of millions of customers exposed online

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The State bank of India, the largest bank of the nation leaked data of millions of its account holders. In the SBI data leak,...
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The US launched a cyber attack on Iran to disable its rocket launch systems;...

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On Thursday, the US launched a cyber-attack on Iranian weapons systems, according to sources. This attack is a retaliation by the US govt after...
Law Books

Facebook, Twitter, and other tech giants to fight against India’s new “intermediary guidelines”...

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According to a report by Reuters released later last month, The Indian Information Technology ministry has proposed rules that will compel major technology giants...
Slack is broken

Researchers highlight design weaknesses in the 4G and 5G Cellular Paging Protocols

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A few researchers from Purdue University and The University of Iowa have recently found three new security flaws in 4G and 5G protocols that...
Twitter

Jack Dorsey discusses the rumored ‘edit tweet’ button and tells users to stop caring...

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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, attended a town hall meeting at IIT, Delhi, yesterday, where he talked about his plans to add an “edit tweet”...
Application security

Private International shares its findings on how popular Android apps send user data to...

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Privacy International, a UK registered charity firm that promotes the right to privacy, released a report last week, that shows how popular Android apps...
ESA data leak security

ESA’s E3 web security negligence endangers more than 2000 game media journalists, investors, after...

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A few days ago, the Entertainment Software Association accidentally leaked a spreadsheet including personal information of about 2,025 games industry journalists, content creators, video...
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Coinhive to shut down all its cryptojacking services on March 8!

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Coinhive, an in-browser Monero cryptocurrency miner, announced that it would be shutting down all its operations next week on March 8, 2019. Users will...
machine learning for cybersecurity

Ethereum community postpones Constantinople, post vulnerability detection from ChainSecurity

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The Ethereum developers announced yesterday that they are pulling back the Constantinople Hard Fork Upgrade after a vulnerability that could allow hackers to steal...
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Oracle releases emergency patches to fix a critical vulnerability in its WebLogic servers

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On Tuesday Oracle published an out-of-band security update that had a patch to a critical code-execution vulnerability in its WebLogic server. “This remote code...

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Top 6 Cybersecurity Books from Packt to Accelerate Your Career

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With new technology threats, rising international tensions, and state-sponsored cyber-attacks, cybersecurity is more important than ever. In organizations worldwide, there is not only a dire need for cybersecurity...

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