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UK-based Metro Bank has suffered an SS7 attack – Jan 2019
Preface: The phrase “old wine in new bottles”! Cyber security world has similar things all the time! About SS7 design weakness: Business impact: A U.K. bank says no customers lost money after cyber attackers attempted account takeovers by rerouting one-time passcodes, Motherboard reports. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) also confirmed. Such attacks involve tampering…
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Marvell Avastar wireless SoCs have multiple vulnerabilities – 5th Feb 2019
Preface: The Marvell 88W8897A SoC (System on a Chip) is the industry’s first 802.11ac chip to combine Bluetooth 4.2, mobile MIMO (Multi-input Multi-output), transmit beamforming, and with built-in support for all screen projection technologies. Technology Background: Computer design primary focus on memory usage. Even though without an exception in SoC (System on a Chip) design.…
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CISA Releases Blog on Emergency Directive: January 24, 2019
Preface: Cyber security experts predict that global DNS hijacking activities are underway. However, it is not certain who is the attacker (the cyber attack group), FireEye said on January 9, 2019. Background information: This cybersecurity incident caught the attention of the Network Security and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Whereby, CISA released their first emergency order…
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Is this a careless mistake? BlackRock Exposes Confidential Data on Thousands of Advisers on iShares Site!
Preface: Excel spreadsheets are used all the time in high-risk financial data analysis, and sometimes this is a silent way to dig out the data. BlackRock data leakage synopsis: Bloomberg found three spreadsheets contains BlackRock’s iShares ETF business confidential information included thousands of financial advisors were given ratings based on how much business they bring…