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Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 03:00:00 -0700

Microsoft last week recommended that organizations no longer force employees to come up with new passwords every 60 days.

The company called the practice – once a cornerstone of enterprise identity management – “ancient and obsolete” as it told IT administrators that other approaches are much more effective in keeping users safe.

“Periodic password expiration is an ancient and obsolete mitigation of very low value, and we don’t believe it’s worthwhile for our baseline to enforce any specific value,” Aaron Margosis, a principal consultant for Microsoft, wrote in a post to a company blog.

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Security Sophos

April 29, 2019 admin

CVE-2018-18500: write-after-free vulnerability in Firefox, Analysis and Exploitation

Credit to Author: Yaniv| Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 15:35:40 +0000

Editor’s note: This article is a technical description of a bug discovered by a member of the Offensive Research team at SophosLabs, and how the researcher created a proof-of-concept “Arbitrary Read/Write Primitive” exploit for this bug. The vulnerability was deemed critical by Mozilla’s bug tracking team and was patched in Firefox 65.0. It’s written for […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/oTcYk6i594c” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

Kaspersky Security

April 29, 2019 admin

Phishing without borders, or why you need to update your router

Credit to Author: Marina Mash| Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2019 15:33:20 +0000

Cybercriminals are hijacking routers to steal people’s credentials for online banking and services.

ScadaICS Schneider

April 29, 2019 admin

How data centres will breathe life into 5G

Credit to Author: Steven Carlini| Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2019 16:25:03 +0000

Originally published on CNBC. 5G is rolling out in select markets in 2019 and will gather pace over the next three years. Real-time communication will change the way we interact… Read more »

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Security Wired

April 29, 2019 admin

The Battle of Winterfell: A Tactical Analysis

Credit to Author: Angry Staff Officer| Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2019 16:08:05 +0000

If you’re going up against an army of the undead, maybe plan a little better.

ComputerWorld Independent

April 29, 2019 admin

Microsoft Patch Alert: April patches have sharp edges, with several missing, others reappearing

Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2019 09:32:00 -0700

You have to wonder who’s testing this stuff.

Admins, in particular, have had a tough month. April brought widespread breakdowns – bluescreens, hangs, very sluggish behavior – to hundreds of thousands of Win7 and 8.1 machines. This wasn’t a “small percentage” kind of event. For some companies, rebooting overnight on Tuesday brought seas of blue screens on Wednesday morning.

The first round of cumulative updates and Monthly Rollups arrived on Patch Tuesday, but the now-ubiquitous second round didn’t show up until late Thursday afternoon, two and a half weeks later. Talk about admins taking a beating.

We still have one Tuesday left this month – the mythical “E week” that Microsoft never talks about – so the month may yet end with both a bang and whimper.

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MalwareBytes Security

April 29, 2019 admin