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Credit to Author: Wired Staff| Date: Sat, 06 May 2017 12:00:53 +0000
Each weekend we round up the news stories that we didn’t break or cover in depth but that still deserve your attention. The post Security News This Week: Oh Good, Hackers Beat Two-Factor to Rob Bank Accounts appeared first on WIRED.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Fri, 05 May 2017 23:32:40 +0000
The campaign of French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron confirms it’s been the target of a successful hacking operation. The post Hackers Hit Macron With Huge Email Leak Ahead of French Election appeared first on WIRED.
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Credit to Author: Lucian Constantin| Date: Fri, 05 May 2017 07:54:00 -0700
Over the past year, a group of attackers has managed to infect hundreds of computers belonging to government agencies with a malware framework stitched together from JavaScript code and publicly available tools.
The attack, analyzed by researchers from antivirus firm Bitdefender, shows that cyberespionage groups don’t necessarily need to invest a lot of money in developing unique and powerful malware programs to achieve their goals. In fact, the use of publicly available tools designed for system administration can increase an attack’s efficiency and makes it harder for security vendors to detect it and link it to a particular threat actor.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 05 May 2017 14:13:36 +0000
South Korea’s US-supplied THAAD is now operational, but it’s no magic bullet. The post South Korea’s New Missile Defense Tech Isn’t a Cure-All For North Korea appeared first on WIRED.
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Credit to Author: Chris McCormack| Date: Fri, 05 May 2017 16:25:17 +0000
The wait is over, Sophos UTM 9.5 has arrived and it’s packed with new features.<img alt=”” border=”0″ src=”https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=news.sophos.com&blog=834173&post=33577&subd=sophos&ref=&feed=1″ width=”1″ height=”1″ /><img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/u-_pawPgmxA” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Bill Hogan| Date: Fri, 05 May 2017 09:21:31 -0700
As is the case across most of today’s industries, the latest IT technological advances like the cloud, Internet of Things (IoT), and mobility have all blurred the lines between traditional network boundaries, making them harder to secure by the day. Security challenges are escalating in part because there are an increasing number of network access points that can open doors to sensitive financial data. For example, many devices inside of today’s financial networks, such as routers and switches, are not security aware. Once these devices…
Read MoreCredit to Author: Thomas Reed| Date: Fri, 05 May 2017 14:00:41 +0000
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| Snake, also known as Turla and Uroburos, is backdoor malware that has been around and infecting Windows systems since at least 2008. It is thought to be Russian governmental malware and on Windows is highly-sophisticated. It was even seen infecting Linux systems in 2014. Now, it appears to have been ported to Mac. Categories: Tags: Adobe Flash PlayerApplemacMac TrojanmalwareSnaketrojanTurlaUroburos |
The post Snake malware ported from Windows to Mac appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Fri, 05 May 2017 12:00:04 +0000
As you read this blog, I am probably sitting on a beach in Cancun, Mexico getting a nice tan and not thinking about security (well, maybe just a little). A couple of days before I left, I had to deal with the inevitable. It never fails – every time I am about to go on…