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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 08:03:00 -0800

Hey, admins! It’s been an exciting week, eh?

Most of you have been inundated with requests — demands — that you patch all of your systems immediately to protect them from the highly publicized CVE-2020-0601 Crypt32.dll security hole, known as “Chain Of Fools” or “CurveBall.”

While you were scrambling to comply with the NSA’s unique advertising, abetted by almost every security expert on the planet, a funny thing happened. There are no in-the-wild exploits for the ol’ CurveBall. But there are lots and lots of Citrix ADC and Citrix Gateway systems under attack, using a security hole announced in December called CVE-2019-19781.

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Microsoft Security

January 21, 2020 admin

How companies can prepare for a heightened threat environment

Credit to Author: Todd VanderArk| Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 17:00:31 +0000

Learn what actions companies can take and controls they can validate in light of the current level of threats, and during any period of heightened risk.

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Independent Krebs

January 20, 2020 admin

DDoS Mitigation Firm Founder Admits to DDoS

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 23:13:03 +0000

A Georgia man who co-founded a service designed to protect companies from crippling distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks has pleaded to paying a DDoS-for-hire service to launch attacks against others.

ScadaICS Schneider

January 20, 2020 admin

Reflecting on Forrester 2020 IoT prediction for new digital services

Credit to Author: Cyril Perducat| Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 13:00:35 +0000

As we embark on this new year, I would like to reflect on Forrester’s 2020 IoT prediction related to new ways for old companies to do business in the digital… Read more »

The post Reflecting on Forrester 2020 IoT prediction for new digital services appeared first on Schneider Electric Blog.

Magazine Security VirusBulletin

January 20, 2020 admin

New paper: Behind the scenes of GandCrab’s operation

The GandCrab ransomware regularly updated itself to newer versions to stay ahead of decryptors released by security researchers, and regularly included taunts, jokes and references to security organizations in its code. In a new paper, the AhnLab Security Analysis Team reveal the full details of the battle that went on between GandCrab and AhnLab.

Security Wired

January 20, 2020 admin

An Open Source Effort to Encrypt the Internet of Things

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 12:00:00 +0000

IoT is a security hellscape. One cryptography company has a plan to make it a little bit less so.

MalwareBytes Security

January 20, 2020 admin

A week in security (January 13 – 19)

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 16:32:45 +0000

Our weekly security roundup for January 13-19, with a look at elastic servers, data enrichment, rootkits, regulation for deepfakes, and more.

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A week in security

Tags: apt40 Cisco citrix data enrichment deepfakes elastic servers emotet rootkit travelex weleakinfo

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Security TrendMicro

January 20, 2020 admin

Defend Yourself Now and in the Future Against Mobile Malware

Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 14:09:00 +0000

The world has gone mobile and the US is leading the way. It’s estimated that that the number of smartphone users alone topped 257 million in the States in 2018. That means three-quarters (74%) of households now boast at least one mobile device. And in this new digital world, it’s mobile applications that really matter….

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Computer Security Articles

Author: admin

Don’t worry about CurveBall just yet — get your Citrix systems patched

How companies can prepare for a heightened threat environment

DDoS Mitigation Firm Founder Admits to DDoS

Reflecting on Forrester 2020 IoT prediction for new digital services

New paper: Behind the scenes of GandCrab’s operation

An Open Source Effort to Encrypt the Internet of Things

A week in security (January 13 – 19)

Defend Yourself Now and in the Future Against Mobile Malware