Researchers in Israel have found major security holes in millions of Samsung IoT devices, Televisions, Refrigerators, Washer and Dryers and any other device running Samsung in-house OS called Tizen. Tizen is Samsung equivalent to Android. Fourty so called zero-day, vulnerabilities have been found in the OS and reported to Samsung months ago with no further action taken by Samsung. Those 40 hacks will allow an attacker to take over your device. Could you imagine someone taking over your stove or oven and turning it on while no one is home? The researchers stated Tizen “may be the worst code I’ve ever seen.”
FBI Alert Urges Companies to Secure FTP Servers
The original cloud service “FTP” is on the radar of many hackers. The FBI sent out an alert to medical and dental entities warning them to secure their FTP servers. Hackers are trying to access protected health information (PHI) and personal identifiable information (PII) through FTP. Research has shown that there are over 700K exposed FTP servers on the internet. Before the days of Dropbox, Google drive and Onedrive people would use the File transfer protocol (FTP) to move or copy data from pc’s to servers or vice versa. Now with cybercrimes at an all-time high this once useful feature is a backdoor to store malware and launch DDoS attacks.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fbi-alert-urges-companies-to-secure-ftp-servers/
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76 Popular Apps Vulnerable to Data Interception, Warns iOS Security Researcher
At least 76 popular iOS apps found to have risks for data interception. At the time of the findings, more than 18,000,000 apps downloaded from Apple’s App Store. Popular apps such as Snapchap and various banking apps are among the known vulnerable apps. The vulnerable apps failed to make use of the Transport Layer Security Protocol. Without this security, applications are susceptible to data interception by hackers. The developers of the application must make fix. Apple is unable to address at OS level because changes there can open up additional holes in security. The current work around is not to use applications effected by this flaw on public Wi-Fi but rather use data service provided by cellular company.
https://www.macrumors.com/2017/02/07/popular-ios-apps-vulnerable-interception/
More Cybercrime Than Physical Crime in North Wales
In North Whales cybercrimes are out numbering physical crimes for law enforcement. While burglary and shoplifting has seen a decrease, online crimes are on the rise. Primary targets for these online crimes are businesses and the attack method is the use of ransomware. Online crimes seem to be the safer bet for criminals because the likelihood of getting caught is slim to none in many cases. Gone are the days of walking into a business and robbing them at gun point now you can sit at home with a glass of wine and do a stickup with your keyboard and mouse.
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/more-cybercrime-than-physical/