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Credit Card Issuer TCM Bank Leaked Applicant Data for 16 Months

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2018 15:48:53 +0000

TCM Bank, a company that helps more than 750 small and community U.S. banks issue credit cards to their account holders, said a Web site misconfiguration exposed the names, addresses, dates of birth and Social Security numbers of thousands of people who applied for cards between early March 2017 and mid-July 2018. TCM is a subsidiary of Washington, D.C.-based ICBA Bancard Inc., which helps community banks provide a credit card option to their customers using bank-branded cards.

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Windows updaters express frustrations. Microsoft responds.

Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2018 08:56:00 -0700

No doubt you recall patching guru Susan Bradley’s open letter to Microsoft brass, summarizing the results of her Windows update survey. The results were quite damning in many ways, with complaints about the quality and frequency of patches topping the list.

Microsoft has responded to the open letter in a rather roundabout way. Two days after Computerworld posted the open letter, Bradley received an email that says:

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This Week in Security News: Facebook and Feds

Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2018 13:38:41 +0000

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, Facebook’s chief security officer resigned as Facebook steps up its cybersecurity efforts. Also, Feds indicted three Ukrainians charged with stealing data on 15 million payment cards from…

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Why Enterprises Still Have to Worry about Eavesdropping

Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2018 13:00:16 +0000

When one thinks about eavesdropping, a mental image of a shadowy stranger, hiding behind a corner and listening in on others’ conversations may come to mind. With the rise of VoIP calling, however, enterprises became aware of digital eavesdropping that impacted their corporate business calls. Now, though, much of the concern surrounding eavesdropping has been…

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SSD Advisory – Infiniband Linux Driver UAF

Credit to Author: SSD / Ori Nimron| Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2018 12:10:25 +0000

Vulnerability Summary A bug in the threads synchronization of Infiniband Driver can cause an Use After Free. A struct that is allocated and free’d by a thread, is accessible through a second thread. If the second thread is calling the function “idr_find” before the struct was free’d by the first thread, then he can still … Continue reading SSD Advisory – Infiniband Linux Driver UAF

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