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BlackCat Ransomware gang stole secret military data from an industrial explosives manufacturer

Security Affairs

The BlackCat Ransomware group claims to have hacked SOLAR INDUSTRIES INDIA and to have stolen 2TB of “secret military data.” The BlackCat Ransomware group claims to have breached the company infrastructure and to have stolen 2TB of data, including secret military data related to weapons production.

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Microcontrollers vs. microprocessors: What’s the difference?

IBM Big Data Hub

Microcontroller types and use-cases Responding to a custom chip request from a Japanese calculator manufacturer, Texas Instruments engineers Gary Boone and Michael Cochran are credited with creating the first microcontroller in 1971. DSPs are commonly used in military applications like surveillance drones and other autonomous aircraft.

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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

The year started with the revelation of Spectre and Meltdown – major security flaws affecting processors manufactured by Intel, ARM and AMD. that the crooks were only able to mine a paltry $24 – which Coinhive refused to pay out anyway. For more information on each story, simply follow the links in the transcript on our blog.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 264

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Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: A Hacker From Hollywood

ForAllSecure

He told her he really wanted to create faster planes so that he could sell them to the US military. By the end of 1940, the two inventors sent their rudimentary sketches to the National Inventors Council, the Clearinghouse for Military and defense invention submitted by civilians, the council encouraged them to continue their work.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Healthcare

ForAllSecure

You name it, all the major automotive manufacturers in the world were represented in the room, but arriving the night before, blurry eyed from travel, I stumbled into this Marriot down the street from Fiat Chrysler headquarters and there’s Mike Amadhi standing at the registration desk. “Hi, Rob.”

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Healthcare

ForAllSecure

You name it, all the major automotive manufacturers in the world were represented in the room, but arriving the night before, blurry eyed from travel, I stumbled into this Marriot down the street from Fiat Chrysler headquarters and there’s Mike Amadhi standing at the registration desk. “Hi, Rob.”

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