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• Toyota Japan Hacked, Vietnam Office Suspects Breach

  29-03-2019 17:07
  Toyota Japan Hacked, Vietnam Office Suspects BreachAfter a security incident in February at its Australian subsidiary, Toyota Motor Corp. has suffered its second security breach in the last five weeks, with today's breach announced by the company's main offices in Japan."On March 29, 2019, it was announced in Japan that Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) learned it had possibly been the victim of a cyberattack targeting Toyota Tokyo Sales Holdings Inc., a TMC sales subsidiary, and its affiliated ent
  
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• Magento Warns E-Commerce of SQL Injection Risk

  29-03-2019 16:52
  Magento Warns E-Commerce of SQL Injection RiskAfter researchers discovered an SQL injection vulnerability in Magento’s code, the company issued a security fix for more than 30 different vulnerabilities in its software, which reportedly has put more than 300,000 e-commerce sites at risk of card-skimming attacks.Online businesses have been strongly urged to download the latest fix, warning that versions prior to 2.3.1 Magento code are vulnerable and being exploited in the wild.According
  
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• Intel Microchip Intercepts Signals, Reads Memory

  29-03-2019 15:24
  Intel Microchip Intercepts Signals, Reads MemoryAt this week's Black Hat Asia 2019 conference, researchers from Positive Technologies revealed findings about an undocumented technology in Intel microchips that allow reading data from the memory of and intercepting the signals from peripherals.On March 28, 2019, Positive Technologies experts Maxim Goryachy and Mark Ermolov spoke in Singapore, discussing the microchips in their session Intel VISA: Through the Rabbit Hole.The PCH microchips (P
  
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• IT Security Pros Slam State-Backed Encryption Backdoors

  29-03-2019 11:54
  IT Security Pros Slam State-Backed Encryption BackdoorsMost IT security professionals believe governments that mandate end-to-end encryption backdoors are exposed to a greater risk of nation state cyber-attacks, according to Venafi.The security vendor polled over 500 industry professionals at the recent RSA Conference in San Francisco on a topic which continues to be hotly debated in the US and Europe.Nearly three-quarters (73%) said they thought laws effectively forcing tech companies to e
  
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• Ex-NSA Contractor Pleads Guilty to Top Secret Data Theft

  29-03-2019 11:24
  Ex-NSA Contractor Pleads Guilty to Top Secret Data TheftA former NSA contractor has pleaded guilty to stealing top secret government documents over a two decade period, putting national security at risk.Harold Martin III, of Glen Burnie, Maryland, confessed to “willful retention of national defense information,” having previously denied all charges against him, and will now serve nine years behind bars, according to the Department of Justice.Former US Navy man Martin worked at multip
  
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• ICO Fines Pensions Firm for Spamming Millions of Users

  29-03-2019 10:52
  ICO Fines Pensions Firm for Spamming Millions of UsersThe Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined a pensions company for sending out nearly two million spam emails.The UK’s privacy watchdog slapped Kent-based Grove Pension Solutions with a £40,000 penalty after it sent out the unsolicited marketing emails between October 31, 2016 and October 31, 2017.Although the firm had sought advice over the use of third-party marketing agents from both a data protection consu
  
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• Far-right terrorism threat is growing, say MI5 and police chiefs

  29-03-2019 09:25 via theguardian.com
  Andrew Parker and Cressida Dick say numerous plots have been foiled in recent yearsFar-right terrorism has been identified as a key threat to the safety and prosperity of the country, according to the director general of MI5, Andrew Parker, and Cressida Dick, the commissioner of the Metropolitan police.Writing in the Times, the pair warned that while Islamist terrorism remains the largest by scale, they are also “concerned about the growing threat from other forms of violent extremism &hel
  
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