Cybersecurity

https://theintercept.com/2016/12/31/russia-hysteria-infects-washpost-again-false-story-about-hacking-u-s-electric-grid/ →

Washington Post posted a catchy headline: Russian operation hacked a Vermont utility, showing risk to U.S. electrical grid security, officials say Electrical grid can be hacked also in USA – and it was hacked. But this headline is making thing to look more dangerous than what the actual incident was. Also Reuters reported it: Code →

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-worst-hacks-of-2016 →

http://thehackernews.com/2016/12/php-7-update.html?m=1 Newest PHP version has security issues, and so has some older versions. →

http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/read/global-travel-booking-systems-open-to-fraud-and-abuse It seems that flight ticket security has some holes in it. →

Year 2017 will not have any turn towards better data security. The internet is rife with such well-known than the unknown threats. The company’s systems are supposed to be protected.Hackers are going to continue to look for new ways to extort and steal information from businesses and organizations, which unfortunately means those businesses and organizations →

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/were-declaring-war-ransomware-launch-ransomfree-lior-div?trk=hp-feed-article-title-like →

https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/security-data-protection/7-digital-security-lessons-from-mr-robot/ →

https://medium.com/starting-up-security/learning-from-a-year-of-security-breaches-ed036ea05d9b#.bx8ye9u5h Good article on what to learn from security incidents in 2016. →

https://fossbytes.com/rakos-botnet-back-infect-linux-servers-iot-devices/ In addition to Mirai botnets, there is also Rakos botnet. →