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Domain Name System (DNS) is widely used on the Internet. It provides domain name and IP address mapping, making human access to Internet become easy without the need to remember IP address. DNS was invented in 1983. At that time, security design was...

A new ransomware is widely spreading in Russia, Ukraine and several European regions. The name of the ransomware is BadRabbit, similar to NotPetya. So far, there is an identified infection scenario: Means of distribution and impactsA fake Adobe Flash installer may be downloaded to...

HKCERT is aware that a security vendor has published a research on an IoT botnet, named "Reaper" or "IoTroop", which may have compromised million of IoT devices such as router. The operation of the botnet is similar to that of the infamous Mirai botnet...

  Favourite Security Reads of the Week (20 Oct 2017) .   "Favourite Security Reads of the Week". Each week we share five news or articles that we like. We hope you will love this column and we welcome your comment via email to [email protected].   Below is the Favourite Security Reads of this Week.   妥善處理舊裝置 免資料外洩 (Written by HKCERT on Hong Kong Economic Times, 2017-10-13, Chinese) Phishing Emails that Invoke Fear, Urgency, Get the Most Clicks (Dark Reading, 2017-10...

HKCERT noticed that there were reports from credit card users that unauthorized credit card transactions emerged after they used their credit card online on a particular website. HKCERT reminds credit card users be careful when performing online transactions and beware of the followings: 1.    Make sure the...

  Favourite Security Reads of the Week (13 Oct 2017) .   "Favourite Security Reads of the Week". Each week we share five news or articles that we like. We hope you will love this column and we welcome your comment via email to [email protected].   Below is the Favourite Security Reads of this Week.   黑客用音波功 控制智能手機 (Written by HKCERT on Hong Kong Economic Times, 2017-10-06, Chinese) 「物聯網」最怕殭屍 及早處理 免成黑客傀儡...

  Favourite Security Reads of the Week (6 Oct 2017) .   "Favourite Security Reads of the Week". Each week we share five news or articles that we like. We hope you will love this column and we welcome your comment via email to hkcert@hkcert....

  Cover Story HKCERT and GovCERT.HK Take to Social Media in Fight Against Ransomware Buying and installing tips for Smart Device Change your recruitment website cpjobs.com account password immediately Hot Topic Hong Kong Google Play Store's Apps Security Risk...

  Favourite Security Reads of the Week (22 Sep 2017) .   "Favourite Security Reads of the Week". Each week we share five news or articles that we like. We hope you will love this column and we welcome your comment via email to [email protected].   Below is the Favourite Security Reads of this Week.   工業4.0企業需做好網絡保安 (Written by HKCERT on Hong Kong Economic Times, 2017-09-22, Chinese) 連網醫療設備 保安不容忽視 (Written by HKCERT on Hong Kong...

  Favourite Security Reads of the Week (22 Sep 2017) .   "Favourite Security Reads of the Week". Each week we share five news or articles that we like. We hope you will love this column and we welcome your comment via email to hkcert@hkcert...