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From Target’s stolen PIN codes to Snapchat’s leaked user information, it seems no company is impervious to a data breach. To defend your business in this new age, you need to know the potential threats you face and how to safeguard against them.
That’s one reason McAfee Labs, the research division of the cybersecurity software company McAfee, has released a list of what it believes will be the biggest cyber threats for business owners in 2014.
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Android: Using your phone to play music as you drift to sleep is great. Finding out you left the music app running for eight hours is less great. Super Simple Sleep Timer solves this by killing or quieting your apps after a set time.
via https://lifehacker.com/super-simple-sleep-timer-silences-or-closes-apps-on-a-t-1496230728
Hydra is a parallelized network logon cracker which supports numerous protocols to attack, new modules are easy to add, beside that, it is flexible and very fast.
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Two weeks after a massive data breach hit the retailer Target, financial institutions in Alaska are still working to reissue debit and credit cards to thousands of customers across the state.
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A day after the Syrian Electronic Army said it had hacked into Skype’s social media accounts, the Internet calling service acknowledged on Thursday it had been hit with a "cyber attack" but said no user information was compromised.
According to the BBC, German researchers revealed during the Chaos Computing Congress on Dec. 28 in Hamburg, Germany, that criminals used USB drives during a ATM robbing spree last summer. Although ATMs have been the target of attacks for decades, they often run older software, making it easier for criminals to hack the systems.
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Some days ago it became public knowledge that some routers, that’s devices used for establishing Internet connections among other things, are listening on the undocumented port 32764. First, it was only discovered in one device, the Linksys WAG200G, but it was soon discovered that many routers were also listening on that port.
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The 802.11ac WiFi standard is a spring chicken no longer, making us curious as to why there’s a lack of range extenders supporting it — barring Amped Wireless’ efforts, of course. Looking to capitalize on the situation, Netgear’s launching a pair of such extenders at CES.
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xssless is an automated XSS payload generator written in python.
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Amped Wireless continues to expand its wireless repertoire with a brand new 802.11 ac Wi-Fi range extender that’s both powerful and compact. Dubbed the REC15A, the device offers a whopping 500 milliwatts of power, four amplifiers and a high-gain dual-band antenna in a relatively small 3-inch by 5-inch package.
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