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• Wireless hack attacks target critical infrastructure

  23.04.2013

  Critical infrastructure control systems are at risk from wireless attacks carried out over Software Defined Radio (SDR), according to Digital Assurance.

• Widely used routers easy to hack even by remote attackers

  18.04.2013

  Security researchers from Independent Security Evaluators have tested thirteen widely used small office/home office routers and wireless access points, and have discovered that every single one of them has critical security vulnerabilities that allow local and remote attackers to take control of the device.

• Most corporate computers missing critical software updates

  18.04.2013

  87 percent of corporate computers are missing critical software updates that could threaten business security, according to F-Secure data from around 200,000 workstations mostly in Europe.

• Oracle plugs a host of critical Java vulnerabilities

  17.04.2013

  Oracle’s Java SE Critical Patch Update for April 2013 contains 19 CVEs with CVSS base score of 10 (the highest you can go) indicating that exploiting the vulnerability is not particularly challenging and could give complete control of compromised systems.

• FAA and EASA say hijacking planes using an app is not possible

  15.04.2013

  The big news last week was that, according to researcher Hugo Teso, it is possible for malicious individuals to take control of an airplane using a special framework and an Android app.

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