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BlackLake Security was born in Texas, where the energy sector is king. We understand the challenge of securing massive and distributed industrial operations where a hacker’s antics can be deadly. We understand how to defend the technologies that you depend on, like SCADA and Industrial Control equipment, WANs, and Radio-Over-IP-Networking.
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09/13/2019
WordPress XSS Bug Allows Drive-By Code Execution
Sites that use the Gutenberg (found in WordPress 5.0 to 5.2.2) are open to complete takeover. This post was... More >
09/13/2019
iPhone iOS 13 Lockscreen Bypass Flaw Exposes Contacts
Apple will not fix the glitch until the release of iOS 13.1 later in September. This post was originally... More >
09/13/2019
Astaroth Spy Trojan Uses Facebook, YouTube Profiles to Cover Tracks
At every turn, the info-stealer uses legitimate services to get around normal email, endpoint and network defenses. This post... More >
09/13/2019
North Korean Spear-Phishing Attack Targets U.S. Firms
Researchers warn that U.S. firms are being targeted with legitimate – but trojanized – documents that are often socially engineered... More >
09/13/2019
News Wrap: IoT Radio Telnet Backdoor And ‘SimJacker’ Active Exploit
Threatpost editors Tara Seals and Lindsey O’Donnell talk about the top news stories of the week – from leaky databases... More >
09/13/2019
Cybercriminals Adding Sophistication to BEC Threats
New tactics aimed at business executives and users are being used to reap greater reward from email based fraud, which... More >
09/12/2019
Library-Themed University Phishing Attack Expands to Massive Scale
Cobalt Dickens (a.k.a. Silent Librarian) is now actively targeting 380 universities, bent on stealing credentials and moving deeper into school... More >
09/12/2019
California Passes Bill to Ban Police Use of Facial Recognition
The historic measure, which still needs to be signed into law, would prohibit biometric surveillance, including in bodycams. This... More >
09/12/2019
1B Mobile Users Vulnerable to Ongoing ‘SimJacker’ Surveillance Attack
More than one billion mobile users are at risk from a SIM card flaw being currently exploited by threat actors,... More >
09/12/2019
UNICEF Leaks Personal Data of 8,000 Users via Email Blunder
The organization accidentally sent the names, email addresses, gender and professional information of users of its portal Agora in an... More >
09/11/2019
ThreatList: Apple Adware, Phishing, APT Attacks Threaten macOS Users
Telemetry for the first half of the year shows that Apple’s ecosystem is firmly in cybercriminals’ sights. This post... More >
09/11/2019