Kategori: Hacking

Researchers Mount Vishing Attacks With Real-Time Voice Cloning

Ekim 4, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Cybersecurity researchers revealed Tuesday how artificial intelligence can be used to clone a person’s voice in real time to mount voice phishing attacks on unsuspecting organizations. Researchers from the NCC Group noted in a company blog that they launched attacks using real-time voice cloning against real organizations and successfully recovered sensitive and confidential information. “Not…

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Secret Service Telcom Takedown Raises Concerns About Mobile Net Security

Eylül 26, 2025 • technewsworld.com

The takedown of a massive outlaw telecom network in the New York City metro area by the U.S. Secret Service has raised concerns about the security of the nation’s mobile infrastructure. The Secret Service announced Tuesday that it had dismantled a network of electronic devices located throughout the New York tristate area that were used…

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Ransomware Wave Hits SMBs and Cities

Eylül 20, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Businesses and even governmental organizations once thought they were too small to target. Now they face relentless attempts from increasingly sophisticated criminal groups. The number of weekly cyberattacks on small businesses nearly doubled in the first half of 2025 compared to the same period last year. Over 80% of attacks targeted credentials, according to a…

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Companies Not Keeping Up With Network Security Needs

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Most companies depend exclusively on perimeter defenses to protect their computer networks from intruders, a practice that appears to be more sieve than stone wall, according to a survey released yesterday by Vernier Networks, a network access management firm in Mountain View, Calif. Surveyors found that 51 percent of those sampled said they relied on…

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StillSecure CTO Outlines Biggest Network Security Vulnerabilities

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Network security was a big issue a decade ago. Now, ten years of technology later, it continues to be a top priority and it appears that it will be so ten years from now as well. That’s because as IT security firms learn more about the tactics of hackers, crackers and malicious code writers, the…

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The Changing Faces of Internet Security Threats, Part 1

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

It’s a sad fact of life for today’s information-driven organizations that the nature of security threats is continuously shifting and evolving. Intrusion mechanisms such as worms, Trojans and rootkit exploits continually evolve into more-developed forms, and wax and wane in terms of number and frequency of attacks. Zero-day vulnerability attacks and rootkit exploits are more…

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The Changing Faces of Internet Security Threats, Part 2

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

As the nature of Internet threats has morphed, IT systems professionals and security providers have adapted their response tactics. Part 1 of this two-part series takes a look at how the security threat landscape has shifted. This second installment considers what strategies the experts are cooking up to prevent and protect against the latest onslaughts.…

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Going Wireless on Campus

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Wireless networking continues to make inroads in metropolitan and rural areas across the U.S. as the development of 802.1x technologies and associated standards forges ahead. Wireless broadband and VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) have both gained momentum and are moving inexorably forward. It’s now possible to connect to the Internet and a variety of voice…

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2007 Security Threats on the Rise

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Security threats paint a constantly evolving landscape, and there is no end in sight in terms of threats that keep appearing. Enterprises have survived through extraordinary cycles of security threats, including the 2003 “summer of worms”; the 2004 proliferation of DDoS-based (distributed denial of service) cyber extortion of online betting sites; and the rise of…

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