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Mar 5, 2016

IRS Hack Getting Worse as the Agency Discovers That More Accounts Has Been Compromised

Posted by in categories: cybercrime/malcode, finance

There finally comes a point that you have to question why even have unique identity cards or numbers anymore.


The United States Internal Revenue Services have been battling a huge hacking scandal for nearly a year now. In the month of May last year, the Internal Revenue Services discovered that their security system shad been compromised along with the account details and personal information of over 100,000 people.

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Mar 5, 2016

Rise in cyber risk leads to jobs boost

Posted by in categories: cybercrime/malcode, employment, internet, law

Big money in hacking law firms. Hackers being hired and paid by parties in suits, companies in acquisition, etc.


The growing influence of the internet in law has opened up a wealth of opportunities for cyber law specialists, according to cyber law expert Bradley Deacon.

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Mar 5, 2016

Malware, Accessibility Clickjacking, Affects 65% Of Androids

Posted by in categories: cybercrime/malcode, mobile phones

To all my Android friends — new impacts revealed around Clickjacking.


Skycure co-founders Adi Sharabani and Yair Amit revealed that a new kind of malware puts a stunning 500,000,000 Android phones at risk.

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Mar 5, 2016

The Dark Web Hacking Forum ‘Hell’ Is Back Online

Posted by in categories: business, cybercrime/malcode

I missed posting this in earlier; however, better late than never.

Hell is back up and in business again.


An old moderator has relaunched the hacking forum “Hell.”

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Mar 2, 2016

Want To Hack The Pentagon? New Defense Department Program Challenges Hackers To Breach US Cyber Security

Posted by in categories: cybercrime/malcode, military

A challenge by the US Pentagon.


A new Defense Department competition will invite vetted hackers to find vulnerabilities in U.S. cyber security.

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Mar 2, 2016

How Hackers Recruit New Talent

Posted by in category: cybercrime/malcode

I wanted to share this article; not to promote a career as a hacker, only to share how organized these groups have become.


It involves job postings on the dark web, Skype interviews, and digital voice-changing technology.

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Mar 1, 2016

Autonomous Killing Machines Are More Dangerous Than We Think

Posted by in categories: cybercrime/malcode, drones, ethics, law, military, policy, robotics/AI

I see articles and reports like the following about military actually considering fully autonomous missals, drones with missals, etc. I have to ask myself what happened to the logical thinking.


A former Pentagon official is warning that autonomous weapons would likely be uncontrollable in real-world situations thanks to design failures, hacking, and external manipulation. The answer, he says, is to always keep humans “in the loop.”

The new report, titled “ Autonomous Weapons and Operational Risk,” was written by Paul Scharre, a director at the Center for a New American Security. Scharre used to work at the office of the Secretary of Defense where he helped the US military craft its policy on the use of unmanned and autonomous weapons. Once deployed, these future weapons would be capable of choosing and engaging targets of their own choosing, raising a host of legal, ethical, and moral questions. But as Scharre points out in the new report, “They also raise critically important considerations regarding safety and risk.”

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Mar 1, 2016

These are the 13 jobs in London where a robot is most likely to steal your job

Posted by in categories: cybercrime/malcode, employment, robotics/AI

The interesting piece in the articles that I have seen on robots taking jobs have only occurred in Asia and in certain situations in the UK. I believe that companies across the US see some of the existing hacking risks (especially since the US has the highest incidents of hackings among the other countries) that prevents companies from just replacing their employees with connected autonomous robots plus I am not sure that robotics is at the level of sophistication that most consumers want to spend a lot of money on at the moment.

Bottom line is that until hacking is drastically reduce (if not finally eliminated); that autonomous AI like connected robots and humanoids will find they will have a hard time being adopted by the US collective mass of the population.


In the future the global employment market will rely heavily on robots, artificial intelligence, and all sorts of automation.

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Mar 1, 2016

Utilities Cautioned About Potential for a Cyberattack After Ukraine’s

Posted by in categories: cybercrime/malcode, energy

Working remotely, attackers conducted “extensive reconnaissance” of the Ukraine power system’s networks, stole the credentials of operators and learned how to switch off the breakers, plunging more than 225,000 Ukrainians into darkness.

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Feb 29, 2016

Kaspersky Labs rolls out targeted threat detection platform for enterprises

Posted by in category: cybercrime/malcode

“Kaspersky admits that targeted attacks represent less than one percent of the entire threat landscape”;

Hmmm (wonder how much it cost to develop and deploy?) At least it’s a start.

https://lnkd.in/bzjHfzF

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