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Vehicle hacking already has a 15-year pedigree. Though there are at least 36 million vehicles on the road today already connected to the internet, manufacturers appear to have learned little from the biggest security crises of the internet era. Cybersecurity is, yet again, a bolted-on afterthought rather than an integral part of the engineering of an interconnected vehicle.

Trend Micro calls the legacy threat 'Throwhack'; after the more benign 'Throwback Thursday' social media trend; but, says principal security strategist Bharat Mistry in a blog published today, "there’s nothing entertaining about this list of legacy security challenges."

The risk and insurance community consistently ranks cyberrisk as its top area of interest and concern, and it’s no wonder—these days, every year is a banner year for cybersecurity. The more that stays the same, the more things change.

North Korea is one of the least wired nations on Earth. It has two internet connections to the outside world, one that crosses the Yalu River into China, and the other plugs into Russia’s Far East.

Google’s DoubleClick ad network has come under attack by cryptocurrency miners who infiltrated Google ads to tap into the CPU power of those who view these ads on YouTube. Operating like a malware attack, the hacked ads were detected when some users got alerts from antivirus software programs and/or experienced slowdowns in their internet activity.