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VB2019 paper: Catch me if you can: detection of injection exploitation by validating query and API integrity

In a paper presented at VB2019 in London, Prismo Systems researchers Abhishek Singh and Ramesh Mani discussed code injection vulnerabilities and presented a tool that could detect this vulnerability class. Today we publish their paper and the recording of their presentation.

Security Wired

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Facebook Revamps Its Privacy Checkup Feature in Time for CES

Credit to Author: Louise Matsakis| Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2020 17:00:24 +0000

Forget Portal. This year, Facebook is marketing itself as a privacy crusader.

ComputerWorld Independent

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Microsoft Patch Alert: December patches hang Win7 Pro endpoints and force Server 2012 reboots

Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2020 09:55:00 -0800

It was the kind of month admins dread: Mysterious problems on hundreds of machines, with no apparent cause or cure. Toss in the holidays, and we had a whole lot of Mr. and Ms. Grinches in the industry.

Fortunately, it looks like the problems have been sorted out at this point. Individual users had many fewer problems. Microsoft’s left and right hands still aren’t talking on the 1909 team, but what else is new…

Win7 hang on ‘Preparing to configure Windows’

Microsoft dropped a new Servicing Stack Update for Windows 7 on Dec. 10, and it gummed up the works for many. Here’s a good summary on Reddit from poster Djaesthetic:

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ComputerWorld Independent

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Top 3 enterprise tech trends to watch in 2020

Credit to Author: Michelle Davidson| Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2020 09:46:00 -0800

If blockchain felt more like hype than reality in 2019, prepare for that to change. Industry watchers expect 2020 to be the year the distributed ledger technology matures and we see use cases that go beyond cryptocurrency.

Areas where experts envision growth include data security, the supply chain and electronic health records.

“Someone’s gonna hit me, but I think blockchain as it relates to data security (think access management) is going to have some landmark use cases in 2020,” Siobhan Climer, science and technology writer at Mindsight, said during a recent IDG TECH(talk) Twitter chat.

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MalwareBytes Security

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A week in security (December 30 – January 5)

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2020 17:20:25 +0000

A roundup of the previous week’s most notable security stories and events, including new web skimmer techniques, an explanation of edge computing, and more.

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Kaspersky Security

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The aftermath of the Twitter epilepsy attack

Credit to Author: Alex Perekalin| Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2020 16:45:45 +0000

Twitter has taken actions to prevent attacks with strobing images on people with epilepsy. Are these actions sufficient?

Security TrendMicro

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The Everyday Cyber Threat Landscape: Trends from 2019 to 2020

Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2020 13:15:04 +0000

The past 12 months have been another bumper year for cybercrime affecting everyday users of digital technology. Trend Micro blocked more than 26.8 billion of these threats in the first half of 2019 alone. The bad news is that there are many more out there waiting to steal your personal data for identity fraud, access…

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