Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 05:17:00 -0800
Late last year, landave, a self-described “Computer Science student enjoying cryptography, reverse engineering, and other information security topics,” discovered two startling security holes in 7-Zip, a free zip program I’ve recommended for years.
Credit to Author: Seth Geftic| Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 13:01:40 +0000
Seeing the future is the future of cybersecurity<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/fwBOAKt_XBA” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
Read more
Credit to Author: Jon McGettigan| Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 19:45:59 +0000
Both Australia’s Mandatory Notifiable Data Breach legislation and the EU’s GDPR are shining a spotlight on state-of-the-art data security technoloies and strategies to help Australian organisations stay strong in an increasingly digitized world.
Read more
Credit to Author: SSD / Maor Schwartz| Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 09:07:45 +0000
Vulnerabilities summary The following advisory describes two (2) vulnerabilities found in iB-WRA150N devices, firmware 1.2.6 build 110401 Rel.47776n. iB-WRA150N is “a powerful solution to Internet connectivity at home, small offices and work stations. The key is if you are using an ADSL2+ connection now and later decide to change to Broadband or vice-versa you don’t … Continue reading SSD Advisory – iBall Multiple Vulnerabilities
Read more
Credit to Author: Jon McGettigan| Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 19:45:59 +0000
Both Australia’s Mandatory Notifiable Data Breach legislation and the EU’s GDPR are shining a spotlight on state-of-the-art data security technoloies and strategies to help Australian organisations stay strong in an increasingly digitized world.
Read more
Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 12:23:00 -0800
Microsoft on Saturday issued an out-of-band Windows security update that disabled a patch the company released earlier this month to protect personal computers from possible attacks leveraging one of the “Spectre” vulnerabilities.
The weekend release was Microsoft’s response to an announcement seven days ago by Intel, which told customers of all stripes – from computer makers to end users – to stop deploying the firmware updates it had offered after disclosures of the Spectre and Meltdown flaws. According to Intel, the new firmware “may introduce [a] higher-than-expected [number of] reboots and other unpredictable system behavior” on Broadwell and Haswell processors. Those silicon families were introduced in 2015 and 2013, respectively.
Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 19:00:00 +0000
 | |
| A compilation of notable security news from January 22 to January 28, featuring multiple bitcoin and ransomware scams, the rise of spyware, human trafficking as a twisted malware service, and more. Categories: Tags: bitcoinBitCoin ScamGartner Magic Quadrantnetwork defenseransomware scamvr app |
The post A week in security (January 22 – January 28) appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
Read moreCredit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2018 19:53:22 +0000
 | |
| Earlier this morning, we published a protection update that caused connection issues for many of our customers. As a side effect of the web protection blocks, the product also spiked memory usage and possibly caused a crash. We have triaged this issue and pushed a protection update that resolves it. Categories: Tags: malwarebytes crashMalwarebytes issueprotection updateweb protection |
The post IMPORTANT: Web blocking / RAM usage announcement appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
Read more