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Credit to Author: Emily Dreyfuss| Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2017 11:00:00 +0000
The White House exposes voter info, Trump Jr. met with an alleged Russian hacker, and more security news this week.
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Credit to Author: Issie Lapowsky| Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2017 17:14:33 +0000
The congressional investigation turns its attention to the digital team that helped Trump win.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2017 12:42:23 +0000
But law enforcement’s raid on AlphaBay won’t end the darknet’s vibrant drug trade.
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Credit to Author: SSD / Maor Schwartz| Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2017 07:24:56 +0000
Vulnerability Summary The following advisory describes a Unauthenticated Path Traversal vulnerability found in Geneko GWR routers series. Geneko GWG is compact and cost effective communications solution that provides cellular capabilities for fixed and mobile applications such as data acquisition, smart metering, remote monitoring and management. GWG supports a variety of radio bands options on 2G, … Continue reading SSD Advisory – Geneko Routers Unauthenticated Path Traversal
Read MoreCredit to Author: Michael Horowitz| Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2017 12:56:00 -0700
TLS is the protocol invoked under the covers when viewing secure websites (those loaded with HTTPS rather than HTTP). There are multiple versions of the TLS protocol, and the most recent version, 1.2, is the most secure. Last time, I discussed tweaking Firefox so that it only supports TLS version 1.2 and not the older versions (1.0 and 1.1) of the protocol.
But that begs the question: what happens when a security-reinforced copy of Firefox encounters a website that does not support TLS 1.2? The answer is shown below.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2017 12:11:35 +0000
Last month KrebsOnSecurity published research into a large distributed network of apparently compromised systems being used to relay huge blasts of junk email promoting “online dating” programs — affiliate-driven schemes traditionally overrun with automated accounts posing as women. New research suggests that another bot-promoting botnet of more than 80,000 automated female Twitter accounts has been pimping the same dating scheme and ginning up millions of clicks from Twitter users in the process.
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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2017 13:16:00 -0700
I just received word from Gunter Born that Microsoft has pulled three of its Outlook patches:
As I mentioned last week, Microsoft still hasn’t fixed any of the Office 2007 bugs it introduced in the June security patches.
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Credit to Author: Peter Craig| Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2017 19:00:02 +0000
Sophos has been named a Top Player in Radicati’s Corporate Web Security Market Quadrant. <img alt=”” border=”0″ src=”https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=news.sophos.com&blog=834173&post=40707&subd=sophos&ref=&feed=1″ width=”1″ height=”1″ /><img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/waQhX5mSim0″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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