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Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 14:00:52 +0000
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| A look at RoughTed, a purveyor of ad-blocker aware malvertising responsible for a range of scams, exploits, and malware. Categories: Tags: ad-mavenadwareexploit kitsexploitsMagnitudemalvertisingPUPsRIGRoughTedscamstech support scamstrojan |
The post RoughTed: The anti ad-blocker malvertiser appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
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Credit to Author: Sandra Henry-Stocker| Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 05:47:00 -0700
Deploying password quality checking on your Debian-base Linux servers can help to ensure that your users assign reasonable passwords on their accounts, but the settings themselves can be a bit misleading. For example, setting a minimum password length of 12 characters does not mean that your users’ passwords will all have twelve or more characters. Let’s stroll down Complexity Boulevard and see how the settings work and examine some settings worth considering.
First, if you haven’t done this already, install the password quality checking library with this command:
apt-get -y install libpam-pwquality
The files that contain most of the settings we’re going to look at will be:
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Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 13:48:37 +0000
For all the panic it caused, WannaCry looks finally to have been contained by organisations round the globe. But this isn’t the time to forget about it and move on. There are valuable lessons to be learned about this attack, why it was so successful and what can be done to prevent it happening again….
Credit to Author: William Tsing| Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 18:39:46 +0000
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| Cyberthreats are typically boring, repetitive, and require a reasonably predictable remediation process. Here are 5 cyberthreats that if you’re not frightened by, you should be. Categories: Tags: botnetcyberthreatsddosIoTlawmiraiMirai botnetRATsvnc |
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Credit to Author: Darlene Storm| Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 08:26:00 -0700
Well, well, well, the NSA may not waltz away legally unscathed after spying on Americans’ private communications due to the dogged determination of the Wikimedia Foundation, the ACLU, the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University and eight other co-plaintiffs.
The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled to give Wikimedia a chance to legally challenge the NSA’s mass surveillance as being unconstitutional. The government has previously argued that the NSA’s Upstream warrantless spying is authorized under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Thanks to Upstream surveillance, the NSA sucks up and searches through American’s international internet communications.
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Credit to Author: Rajib Singha| Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 13:27:03 +0000
Ransomware is a malware that locks your computer making it inaccessible or it encrypts your data. It then demands you to pay a ransom for unlocking the computer or decrypting the data. This post talks about the file encrypting ransomware called WannaCry – the biggest ransomware attack in history! 1….
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Read MoreCredit to Author: Jon Clay| Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 13:22:58 +0000
Ransomware has gained global attention over the course of the last two weeks due to the huge spread of WannaCry. Following the initial attacks, we’ve seen UIWIX, Adylkuzz and now EternalRocks come onto the scene leveraging the same core set of vulnerabilities. The common thread between the three threats is MS17-010 along with other tools…
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 04:00:08 +0000
Cybersecurity company Cybereason has shared new details about how one of the world’s most mysterious hacking groups operates. The post An Up-Close View of the Notorious APT32 Hacking Group in Action appeared first on WIRED.
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