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Credit to Author: Greg Allen| Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2017 12:00:06 +0000
Physics and economics have partly protected humans from weapons of mass destruction, but what if WMD of the future are both devastating and cheap? The post Thank Goodness Nukes Are So Expensive and Complicated appeared first on WIRED.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2017 00:59:53 +0000
Mike Pence joins an ever-growing list of public figures whose email account fell to hackers. It only gets worse from here. The post The Golden Age of Email Hacks Is Only Getting Started appeared first on WIRED.
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Credit to Author: Ryan Francis| Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2017 12:51:00 -0800
Ransomware is running rampant. The SonicWall GRID Threat Network detected an increase from 3.8 million ransomware attacks in 2015 to 638 million in 2016. According to a Radware report, 49 percent of businesses were hit by a ransomware attack in 2016. Quite often the attacker asks for some amount of cybercurrency – usually Bitcoin – in exchange for providing a decryption key.
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Credit to Author: Lucian Constantin| Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2017 12:41:00 -0800
HackerOne, the company behind one of the most popular vulnerability coordination and bug bounty platforms, has decided to make its professional service available to open-source projects for free.
“Here at HackerOne, open source runs through our veins,” the company’s representatives said in a blog post. “Our company, product, and approach is built on, inspired by, and driven by open source and a culture of collaborative software development. As such, we want to give something back.”
HackerOne is a platform that makes it easier for companies to interact with security researchers, triage their reports, and reward them. Very few companies have the necessary resources to build and maintain bug bounty programs on their own with all the logistics that such efforts involve, much less so open-source projects that are mostly funded through donations.
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Credit to Author: Maor Schwartz| Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2017 16:04:16 +0000
Vulnerabilities Summary The following advisory describes two (2) vulnerabilities found in MuraCMS version 6.2. MuraCMS is an open source content management system for CFML, created by Blue River Interactive Group. Mura has been designed to be used by marketing departments, web designers and developers. The vulnerabilities found in MuraCMS are: Unauthenticated remote arbitrary code execution … Continue reading SSD Advisory – MuraCMS Multiple Vulnerabilities
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Credit to Author: Lucian Constantin| Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2017 09:20:00 -0800
Targeted attacks are moving away from traditional malware to stealthier techniques that involve abusing standard system tools and protocols, some of which are not always monitored.
The latest example is an attack dubbed DNSMessenger, which was analyzed by researchers from Cisco Systems’ Talos team. The attack starts with a malicious Microsoft Word document distributed through an email phishing campaign.
When opened, the file masquerades as a “protected document” secured by McAfee, an antivirus brand now owned by Intel Security. The user is asked to click on the ‘enable content’ button in order to view the document’s content, but doing so will actually execute malicious scripting embedded within.
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Credit to Author: Brian Forster| Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2017 09:33:24 -0800
New York has introduced a cybersecurity regulation to protect the financial services industry. Fortinet explains how network security fabric can assist.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2017 16:00:07 +0000
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The post Free antivirus coupon leads to tech support scam appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
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