SecureState

03/07/2018

REGISTRATION CLOSING SOON: Know a high school student interested in information technology? Here's their chance to put their skills to the test while competing for scholarship prizes! Registration is open for our annual Capture the Flag competition March 24th at the University of Pittsburgh's CHS. Register a team today, or contact SecureState to become a corporate sponsor!

Put your INFOSEC skills to the ultimate test for scholarship prizes.

02/27/2018

Know a high school student interested in information technology? Here's their chance to put their skills to the test while competing for scholarship prizes! Registration is open for our annual Capture the Flag competition March 24th at the University of Pittsburgh's CHS. Register a team today, or contact SecureState to become a corporate sponsor!

Put your INFOSEC skills to the ultimate test for scholarship prizes.

02/12/2018

Reports in January from cybersecurity company McAfee claimed that organisations associated with the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics were targeted by a hacking "campaign." Perhaps unsurprisingly, that wasn't the last cyberattack aimed at the Winter Olympics.

The Pyeongchang Winter Olympics' internal servers crashed in the attack, as did public Wi-Fi. Officials confirmed the attack, but won't identify the perp.

01/25/2018

New research out Wednesday lifts the lid on security vulnerabilities found in two popular personal protection devices, which if exploited can open up its users to tracking and, in some cases, render the devices useless.

And yet there's been nothing but silence from the companies.

01/24/2018

Email phishing is 1 of the most common and most effective forms of cyberattack. 1 in 14 users fall for phishing emails and the average breach may cost as much as $1.6M. Although many organizations have phishing awareness training in place, their failure rates plateau over time. This report reviews the most successful security awareness methods for protecting against phishing attacks, including education, testing, and targeted incentives for secure behavior. https://hubs.ly/H09Mlbd0

01/23/2018

At the end of last week, mobile security researchers at Pradeo claimed that some of Sega's official Sonic the Hedgehog games in the Google Play store were leaking information - including players' location and device data.

Researchers claim some Sega Android games are leaking users’ geolocation and device data.

01/22/2018

A New Mexican city of roughly 45,000 people and an Indianan hospital operator have fallen victim to separate ransomware attacks this month. In a Jan. 17 press release, the city of Farmington, NM acknowledged via press release that municipal computers running its business operations were infected with SAMSAM ransomware in a Jan. 3 attack.

A New Mexican city of roughly 45,000 people and an Indianan hospital operator have fallen victim to separate ransomware attacks this month.

01/20/2018

Apple promises fix for chaiOS iMessage bug that crashes Messages next week https://hubs.ly/H09KgLw0

01/19/2018

The hospital said that despite having backups it opted to pay the ransom demand of 4 Bitcoin, which was worth around $55,000 at the time the hospital paid the sum, on Saturday morning.

An Indiana hospital paid a ransom of $55,000 to get rid of ransomware that had infected its systems and was hindering operations last week.

01/18/2018

Almost 6 years after its initial release, SecureState has published version 1.0 (and shortly thereafter a couple of bug fixes) of its Open Source Smart Meter Pe*******on Testing Framework dubbed "Termineter". The framework has been an integral part of the Smart Meter assessment portion of the SecureState AMI testing methodology and this release has been the culmination of years of improvements on the original version. https://hubs.ly/H09J_dt0