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Credit to Author: Louise Matsakis| Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 23:02:20 +0000
The Colombian-American hacker became famous in the early 2000s for breaking into the systems at organizations like *The New York Times*, and later for his role in Chelsea Manning’s arrest.
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Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 07:37:00 -0700
The emerging Cambridge Analytica/Facebook affair, in which people’s personal data was allegedly used for purposes it should not have been used for, shows the danger of surveillance capitalism and the need for a new approach to social networking — and that’s what Apple can provide.
History shows us that Apple has never succeeded in creating a social network. Ping, launched in 2010, was closed down in 2012 due to lack of interest.
Credit to Author: Pradeep Kulkarni| Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 14:19:13 +0000
Last week, we had blogged about the emergence of a new attack vector ‘.url’ which is used to spread malware. In this blog post, we will deep-dive into the attack chain of this ‘.url’ vector and elaborate on the Quant Loader malware which is actively making use of it. Let’s…
Read MoreCredit to Author: Shriram Munde| Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 12:56:40 +0000
Quick Heal Security Labs has come across a new ransomware that goes by the name ‘Zenis’. The ransomware not only encrypts files but also intentionally deletes the infected system’s backup. The behavior of Zenis ransomware Upon inside a computer, the ransomware performs the following checks before it starts encrypting…
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 03:53:12 +0000
Adrian Lamo, the hacker probably best known for breaking into The New York Times’s network and for reporting Chelsea Manning’s theft of classified documents to the FBI, was found dead in a Kansas apartment on Wednesday. Lamo was widely reviled and criticized for turning in Manning, but that chapter of his life eclipsed the profile of a complex individual who taught me quite a bit about security over the years. Adrian Lamo, in 2006. Source: Wikipedia. I first met Lamo in 2001 when I was a correspondent for Newsbytes.com, a now-defunct tech publication that was owned by The Washington Post at the time. A mutual friend introduced us over AOL Instant Messenger, explaining that Lamo had worked out a simple method allowing him to waltz into the networks of some of the world’s largest media companies using nothing more than a Web browser.
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Credit to Author: SSD / Noam Rathaus| Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2018 19:01:53 +0000
Vulnerability Summary A critical vulnerability in the EmbedThis HTTP library, and Appweb versions 5.5.x, 6.x, and 7.x including the latest version present in the git repository. In detail, due to a logic flaw, with a forged HTTP request it is possible to bypass the authentication for HTTP basic and HTTP digest login types. Confirmed Vulnerable … Continue reading SSD Advisory – AppWeb Authentication Bypass (Digest, and Basic)
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Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 07:51:00 -0700
Microsoft this week lifted the security update blockade on Windows 10 PCs that do not have approved antivirus software, but kept the no-patches-for-you rule in place for the more popular Windows 7.
The update roadblock was assembled in early January, when Microsoft issued mitigations against the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities. Those vulnerabilities stemmed from design flaws in virtually all modern processors made by Intel, AMD and ARM. According to Microsoft, the security updates could brick PCs equipped with antivirus (AV) software that had improperly tapped into kernel memory.
Credit to Author: Matthew Phillion| Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 19:03:20 +0000
The Superbrands 2018 Annual Report has arrived, and Sophos is a part of it.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/Sen-5xjbhuI” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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