Geo-Poli-Cyber

  By Khaled Fattal, Survivability News Publisher’s Corner According to multiple news sources including AP News, the federal government is set to begin working with President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team now that the head of the General Services Administration has “ascertained” that he is the apparent winner of this month’s presidential election. Trump, who had …

US Agency Concedes | Biden Presidency Transition Begins | Is America at increased risk of armed uprising if Trump doesn’t tell his 73 million voters to concede? Read More »

Smart Doorbells Are Wide Open to Security Flaws A consumer rights group has found security vulnerabilities in 11 popular smart doorbell products available on two of the world’s biggest online marketplaces. Which? enlisted the help of researchers at NCC Group to run tests on the smart devices they found on eBay and Amazon, many of …

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Survivability News Exclusive Special Report. SAP NetWeaver Application Server Java vulnerability can be exploited without authentication and lead to complete system takeover by Geo-Poli-Cyber hackers putting Nation states and businesses under new and increased Cyber-Survivability risk.  21st Century Cyber Race & Warfare This is one of the many new vulnerabilities that are being discovered on …

Discovered Critical Flaw allows Geo-Poli-Cyber™ hackers to breach SAP systems | National & Corporate Cyber-Survivability risks increased| Exclusive Read More »

A pair of Baidu applications on the Google Play Store were recently leaking users’ sensitive data that could be used to track users’ location, according to Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 research published Tuesday. Through reverse-engineering, the researchers at Unit 42, the research arm at Palo Alto Networks, found that both the Baidu Search Box …

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After months of public reporting on a suspected Chinese hacking campaign targeting entities linked with diplomacy between the Vatican and Beijing, the hackers are still trying their luck. Researchers at the security firm Recorded Future first called out hackers affiliated with a group called Mustang Panda in July for their efforts to conduct espionage against targets involved …

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Issues reported across 28 AWS products, from Kinesis to Worskpaces, and from DynamoDB to IoT Services. Unfolding story. Amazon Web Services (AWS), a core provider of internet infrastructure services, is going through a major outage today, and the service’s spotty uptime is now causing huge issues at thousands of other online services across the internet. …

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Access is being sold for $100 to $1500 per account, depending on the company size and exec role. A hacker is currently selling passwords for the email accounts of hundreds of C-level executives at companies across the world. The data is being sold on a closed-access underground forum for Russian-speaking hackers named Exploit.in. The seller …

Hacker selling access to email accounts of hundreds of C-suite execs | Imagine the damage a Geo-Poli-Cyber motivated hacker can do with such info Read More »

Survivability News reports today about 33 discovered security flaws in four open-source TCP/IP libraries currently used inside the firmware of products from more than 150 vendors. These new vulnerabilities can compromise governments, organizations and citizens and can increase national and corporate Cyber-Survivability and Security risk vectors especially if the perpetrators are Geo-Poli-Cyber motivated hackers. It …

Discovered ‘Amnesia:33’ vulnerabilities in millions of smart & industrial devices increase National & Corporate Cyber-Survivability & Security risks & damage from Geo-Poli-Cyber hackers Read More »

Survivability News is launching its “Thought Provocation Series”. This is where we turn the spotlight on a particular topic or event to raise critically needed awareness by evoking constructive debates and discussions that can lead to real change and hopefully, a better world. Today, we ask you to reflect on these successful people to prompt …

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