A New Way to Track Down Bugs Could Help Save IoT
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 16:00:00 +0000
New research advances techniques for finding and exploiting known vulnerabilities in IoT devices automatically.
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New Chrome and Firefox extensions block their removal to hijack browsers
Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 16:00:00 +0000
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Read MoreUnlocking God Mode, a SAS 2018 preview podcast
Credit to Author: Jeffrey Esposito| Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 15:52:51 +0000
On this Kaspersky Lab podcast, Jeff talks with Sergey Golovanov about his SAS 2018 training on APT hunting.
Read MoreMore Windows patches, primarily previews, point to escalating problems this month
Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 06:39:00 -0800
Never give a sucker an even break. Yesterday, on a very out-of-band Wednesday, Microsoft released preview patches for Windows 8.1 (but not 7!), Server 2012, and Windows 10 1709 (for bricked AMD machines only), with preview cumulative updates for Win10 1703 and 1607. There are also nine different .NET preview patches.
What should you do? Nothing. More accurately, make sure you DON’T install any of them. Fortunately, all of these patches require that you download and install them — and you’d have to be crazy (or an admin trying to shore up some critical servers) to dive into the cesspool.
It’s the same advice I’ve been giving all month. There’s nothing here that you need right now — there are no known exploits for Meltdown or Spectre in the wild, in particular — and machines are dropping like flies.
Executive Insights: If it is Not Seamless, It is Not Secure
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Credit to Author: Michael Xie| Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 13:45:59 +0000
As the number of connected devices on networks and subsequent threats increase at a rate that is practically immeasurable, many organizations are making the mistake of fighting fire with fire. They are meeting complexity with complexity — a moment-to-moment tactical response that reduces their cybersecurity to an inefficient collection of vendors, protocols and operating systems.
Read MoreSecurity Research News in Brief – November 2017 Edition
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Credit to Author: Axelle Aprville| Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2018 14:00:59 +0000
Welcome back to our monthly review of some of the most interesting security research publications.
Read MoreGame over? It’s up to your password
Credit to Author: Mücahit Hoşcan| Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 14:00:36 +0000
People put a lot of time, effort, and money into the online games they love. And yet many of them don’t bother to protect their gaming accounts properly.
Read MoreThrowback Thursday: What are the odds?
Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 03:00:00 -0800
Internet filter is installed at this site, and in the beginning, there are complaints from users who can’t get to their favorite non-business sites, says an IT pilot fish working there.
But after six months and lots of explanations to users, the complaints have stopped. “Then one Saturday evening, a user called me,” fish says.
“He called to report that something must be wrong, because he could get to his lottery numbers tonight.
“I told him thanks, and that I would inform the individual in charge of the filter on Monday morning, as it wasn’t stopping anything production-critical during the weekend hours.
“I still can’t decide which is funnier: the fact that apparently every day for nearly six months this user tried to get to his lottery numbers even though the page should have never loaded again — or that, when he actually was able to, he reported it as a problem.”