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This Week in Security News: Botnets and Breaches

Credit to Author: Jon Clay| Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2018 14:00:56 +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, North Korean hackers overtook Adobe, Trend Micro Safety Solutions discovered new a botnet, and the threat of third-party cyber breaches made large corporations rethink their strategy. Read…

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Governments eye their own blockchain cryptocurrencies

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2018 03:11:00 -0800

Last year’s blockchain pilot projects are rapidly becoming this year’s live implementations in a variety of industries, and even sectors that have until now been vexed by the distributed ledger technology are following suit.

Case in point: Governments, which are moving to regulate blockchain technology and the cryptocurrencies it underpins.

Cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin that live in open networks, have so far inhabited a  regulatory gray area, because there’s no way for a central authority to track users. The distributed ledgers, however, are useful because they can enable cross-border transactions over peer-to-peer networks in real time, anywhere in the world – without a central governing authority such as a bank or credit card company.

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IndependentSecuriteam

SSD Advisory – Multiple IoT Vendors – Multiple Vulnerabilities

Credit to Author: SSD / Maor Schwartz| Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2018 08:02:43 +0000

Vulnerabilities summary The following advisory describes three (3) vulnerabilities found in the following vendors: Lorex StarVedia Eminent Kraun The vulnerabilities found: Hard-coded credentials Remote command injection (2) It is possible to chain the vulnerabilities and to achieve unauthenticated remote command execution. Credit An independent security researcher, Robert Kugler (https://www.s3cur3.it), has reported this vulnerabilities to Beyond … Continue reading SSD Advisory – Multiple IoT Vendors – Multiple Vulnerabilities

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New Deepfakes forum goes mining with Coinhive

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2018 19:23:40 +0000

With the collapse of the main Deepfakes hubs on Reddit, users have moved away to other forums. Problem is, at least one of them is mining for cryptocurrency. Can your PC handle it?

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Security Glue Between the Silos of Endpoint, Server, Cloud and Network Security Gets More Critical

Credit to Author: Greg Young| Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2018 17:59:01 +0000

Endpoint and Host security techniques have diverged. There used to be considerable similarity between the techniques and tools used to secure desktops, servers, and even networks. Desktops evolved to become Endpoints, as mobile devices proliferated and they were assembled into a collective of being in the category of not-a-server. But as practitioners know, it isn’t…

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