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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 15:42:27 +0000
The Shadow Brokers hacker group is back with another trove of NSA documents including Windows exploits and evidence of financial spying in the Middle East. The post Major Leak Suggests NSA Was Deep in Middle East Banking System appeared first on WIRED.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Adam McNeil| Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 18:03:09 +0000
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| ShadowBrokers shocked the security world again today by releasing another cache of exploits, files, and operational documents purportedly stolen from Equation Group last summer. As you may recall from our earlier publications, Equation Group is reportedly a clandestine hacking group that has been linked with NSA hacking tools. Categories: Tags: CIAexploitsmore informationNSANSA-FTS327releaseShadowBrokerssnowdenwindows |
The post ShadowBrokers releases more stolen information appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 16:01:04 +0000
It’s Friday, which means it’s time for another episode of “Which Restaurant Chain Got Hacked?” Multiple sources in the financial industry say they’ve traced a pattern of fraud on customer cards indicating that the latest victim may be Shoney’s, a 70-year-old restaurant chain that operates primarily in the southern United States.
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Credit to Author: Greg Lambert| Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 09:02:00 -0700
Last month, we had the largest ever release of patches and updates from Microsoft.
This month, we see the biggest change to Patch Tuesday since the first updates were released on the second Tuesday in October 2003, starting with MS03-041. Security bulletins with easy to follow formats like MSyy-xxx are no longer published by Microsoft as of April 2017.
Now, we have the Microsoft Security Update Guide which is defined by Microsoft as the “authoritative source of information on our security updates.” The MSUG is a searchable database of patches and updates that offers some basic queries and filtering. In addition to this database-driven approach, Microsoft has published summary release notes for April 2017 that can be found here. Helpfully, this summary outlines that the following technologies are updated for April:
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Credit to Author: William Tsing| Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 15:00:06 +0000
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| On Monday, the Wall Street Journal reported a wave of hijacked Amazon seller accounts that proceeded to fleece buyers for large sums of money. As reported here, attackers would use credentials harvested from other breaches to take over the account, then either simply redirect funds to their own deposit account or create lots of fake… Categories: Tags: amazonfraudleakpasswordscamtwo-factor authenticationWall Street JournalWSJ |
The post Amazon third party sellers: A new threat appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
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Credit to Author: Bill Hogan| Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 07:01:40 -0700
The cloud, Internet of Things (IoT), mobility, and big data analytics are four primary trends that are driving change, and financial services organizations are being tasked to keep up. While digital business is simplifying life for the users of financial services, companies are being forced to deal with these trends’ impact on the makeup and footprint of their security solutions. The need for an architecture and strategy that is fully suited to support these trends is paramount to success. As a result, today’s financial services…
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Credit to Author: David Maciejak| Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 06:58:13 -0700
FortiGuard Labs has put together answers to some of the most frequently asked questions you may have about the new emerging technology called WebAssembly (WA). What is WebAssembly? WebAssembly is a low-level, portable, binary format for the web that aims to speed up web apps. It is designed to parse faster (up to 20X), and execute faster than JavaScript (JS). When was it announced? The WebAssembly Community Group was created in April 2015, with the mission of “promoting early-stage cross-browser collaboration on a new, portable,…
Read MoreCredit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 13:36:54 +0000
Earlier this week marked the end of support for Windows Vista. This means anyone using Vista will no longer receiving new security updates, non-security hotfixes, free or paid assisted support options, or online technical content updates from Microsoft. If you’re unable to update your version of Windows, this is where virtual patching becomes very important….