Here is the weekly roundup :
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US Navy Investigates Possible CyberAttack after Ship Collision
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The United States Navy is investigating the cause of a collision of the USS John S McCain and a Liberian tanker near Singapore this week, the fourth such incident this year. There are concerns that the collision may have been the work of hackers. The US Navy’s Chief of Naval Operations Admiral John Richardson has ordered ...
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100% of Govt Entities See Own Employees as Biggest Cybersecurity Risk
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A new cybersecurity report has claimed that the government sector is way behind others in implementing modern cybersecurity protocols and defenses, leading to an increase in data breaches targeting government servers. According to ...
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Cybersecurity Risks are Substantial, Says SEC Chief
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The chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission has urged Wall Street to educate everyday investors on the ‘substantial risk’ of cybersecurity threats.
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FTC Slaps $3.5 Million Fine on Lenovo for Superfish Adware
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Laptop maker Lenovo has agreed to pay a $3.5 million fine after having been accused by the FTC for preinstalling adware call VisualDiscovery on its laptops in the United States between late 2014 and early 2015.
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Time Warner Data Breach Exposes Millions of Customer Records
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Charter Communications admitted that it had discovered a data breach containing the personal details of roughly four million records after a leak of a password-less Amazon server. First discovered on August 24 by security researchers, two Amazon S3 buckets were found and...
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IANS Symposium on Threat Hunting | 9/14
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