The Hacker News Daily Bulletin (Feb 28,2022)

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100 Million Samsung Galaxy Phones Affected with Flawed Hardware Encryption Feature

A group of academics from Tel Aviv University have disclosed details of now-patched "severe" design flaws affecting about 100 million Android-based Samsung smartphones that could have resulted in the extraction of secret cryptographic keys. The shortcomings are the result of an analysis of the ...

CISA Warns of High-Severity Flaws in Schneider and GE Digital's SCADA Software

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) last week published an industrial control system (ICS) advisory related to multiple vulnerabilities impacting Schneider Electric's Easergy medium voltage protection relays. "Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities may ...

A Non-Tech Explanation of Containers and Kubernetes

Virtualization, containers and Kubernetes are big topics in tech, but the differences between them aren’t always clear. 451 Research presents a simple analogy to help you explain these big topics to a non-tech audience. Download for free -- no registration ...

Reborn of Emotet: New Features of the Botnet and How to Detect it

One of the most dangerous and infamous threats is back again. In January 2021, global officials took down the botnet. Law enforcement sent a destructive update to the Emotet's executables. And it looked like the end of the trojan's story.  But the malware never ceased to surprise.  November 2021, ...

Experts Create Apple AirTag Clone That Can Bypass Anti-Tracking Measures

Cybersecurity researchers have managed to build a clone of Apple Airtag that circumvents the anti-stalking protection technology built into its Find My Bluetooth-based tracking protocol. The result is a stealth AirTag that can successfully track an iPhone user for over five days without triggering ...

The Top 5 Benefits of Augmenting Your SIEM with Exabeam Fusion XDR

Managing your organization’s security alerts is a full-time job -- whether you monitor only Network Security Devices (NSD), Endpoint, Identity, or (ideally) all of the above.