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Economic Forum Announces New Fintech Cybersecurity Consortium www . securityweek . com The World Economic Forum launched the Fintech Cybersecurity Consortium , a fintech-focused initiative to create a framework for the assessment of cybersecurity in financial technology firms and data aggregators .
New Record 1.7Tbps DDoS Also Abused Memcached Servers www . infosecurity-magazine . com New Record 1.7Tbps DDoS Also Abused Memcached Servers . Experts urge organizations to correct insecurely configured systems
Microsoft Windows Defender Prevents 400,000 Dofoil Infections www . darkreading . com Improved anti-malware detection prevented spread of cryptomining software this week , says Microsoft .
Robots hijacked by ransomware may soon become a reality - Help Net Security www . helpnetsecurity . com How soon will we see our home , office or industrial robots being hijacked and held ransom by attackers ? If they dedicate their efforts to research , that day may come sooner rather than later .
International Women ' s Day : Females still lag behind males in STEM education , ACT study says www . scmagazine . com The study , which drew from the two million 2017 graduating high school students who took the ACT , found that males and females have almost equal interest in STEM , 50 percent and 47 percent .
ISPs Caught Injecting Cryptocurrency Miners and Spyware In Some Countries thehackernews . com Governments and Internet Service Providers in Turkey , Syria and Egypt Caught Infecting Citizens with Cryptocurrency Mining and surveillance malware .
Most healthcare organizations have been breached , report shows www . computerweekly . com
Less than a third of global healthcare organisations remain untouched , as data breaches rise across the industry , a report has revealed
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