Removing the jam in your printer security

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 16:00:00 +0000

We take a look at printer security, an oft-neglected aspect of locking down an organization’s network.

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Extending Public-Private Partnerships with Milipol

Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 16:04:46 +0000

By: Loïc Guézo At Trend Micro, we’ve been protecting consumers, SMBs, enterprises and government customers from the latest threats for three decades now. This has required us to build a global team of experienced researchers, state-of-the-art R&D labs and much more, to fuel our industry-leading cybersecurity solutions. We also understand that there’s a bigger picture…

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Ransomware Threat Continues: How Infections Take Place

Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 14:00:20 +0000

If cybersecurity consultants and IT admins have learned anything of the current threat environment, it’s that ransomware will continue to be a pervasive and dangerous threat to individual users, enterprises and organizations at large. When they first emerged, these infections were unlike anything that tech experts had ever seen, combining strong encryption and blackmail tactics…

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Google Smart Lock on Chrome OS: 2 fast fixes and a power-user tip

Credit to Author: JR Raphael| Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 03:30:00 -0700

Google’s Smart Lock system for Chrome OS is one of those things that sounds spectacular on paper but then frequently falls flat in the real world.

You know about Smart Lock by now, right? It’s something Google created to turn your Android phone into a contact-free key for your Chromebook: Anytime the phone is close to the computer, Chrome OS will automatically detect its presence — and as long as the phone is unlocked, the laptop will let you skip the usual password prompt and hop right in with just a quick click on the sign-on screen.

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SSD Advisory – Chrome AppCache Subsystem SBX by utilizing a Use After Free

Credit to Author: SSD / Ori Nimron| Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2018 09:23:16 +0000

Vulnerabilities Summary The vulnerability exists in the AppCache subsystem in Chrome Versions 69.0 and before. This code is located in the privileged browser process outside of the sandbox. The renderer interacts with this subsystem by sending IPC messages from the renderer to the browser process. These messages can cause the browser to make network requests, … Continue reading SSD Advisory – Chrome AppCache Subsystem SBX by utilizing a Use After Free

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SSD Advisory – Chrome Type Confusion in JSCreateObject Operation to RCE

Credit to Author: SSD / Ori Nimron| Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2018 09:21:47 +0000

Vulnerabilities Summary The following advisory discusses a vulnerability found in turbofan, the JIT compiler. We can trigger the JavaScript code in a way that leads to type confusion that can be exploited in order to execute code remotely on Google Chrome Versions 69.0 and before. Vendor Response Vendor has fixed the issue in Google Chrome … Continue reading SSD Advisory – Chrome Type Confusion in JSCreateObject Operation to RCE

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Why Sharing is Critical to Learning!

Credit to Author: Subhashini Acharya| Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2018 09:45:52 +0000

A great trait of our species has been to survive and stay relevant in our environment. It is being said in this Age of Machines this ‘humanness’ of ours is… Read more »

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