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FortiGuard Labs Telemetry – Roundup and Comparison of 2015 and 2016 IoT Threats

Credit to Author: Gavin Chow| Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2017 08:45:09 -0800

Attacks targeting and originating from IoT devices began grabbing news headlines toward the last quarter of 2016. Insecure IoT devices became the low-hanging fruit for threat actors to easily exploit. Some were even notoriously used as botnets to launch DDoS attacks against selected targets. For example, the infamous Mirai botnet exploited weak login vulnerabilities in insecure IoT devices such as IP cameras and home routers, and was responsible for one of the largest known DDoS attacks to date. Besides being used in DDoS attacks, exploited IoT…

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Mobile Menace Monday: Facebook Lite infected with Spy FakePlay

Credit to Author: Nathan Collier| Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2017 16:00:28 +0000

A lite version of the popular mobile app Facebook has been infected with Android/Trojan.Spy.FakePlay.

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U.S. drops child porn case to avoid disclosing Tor exploit

Credit to Author: Lucian Constantin| Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2017 07:04:00 -0800

The U.S. Department of Justice is asking a federal court to dismiss its indictment in a case that involves a child porn site known as Playpen, after a judge asked the government to disclose the hacking technique it used to gather evidence.

“The government must now choose between disclosure of classified information and dismissal of its indictment,” the DOJ said in a court filing Friday. “Disclosure is not currently an option.”

The case involves Jay Michaud, a school administrator from Vancouver, Wash., who was arrested in July 2015 for allegedly viewing child porn images on Playpen. Michaud’s case was one of at least 137 cases brought throughout the U.S. in relation to Playpen, a website that operated on the Tor anonymity network and which the FBI managed to seize in 2015.

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1.37 billion records leak after spammers forgot to password-protect backups

Credit to Author: Darlene Storm| Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2017 06:19:00 -0800

Nearly 1.4 billion people are affected by a database records leak caused by spamming group River City Media (RCM) forgetting to password-protect their backups.

Last week, MacKeeper security researcher Chris Vickery promised a “1.4 billion identity leak story” would be made public on Monday. The actual number of people affected – 1,374,159,612 – is slightly lower than that, but is nothing to scoff at.

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Okta acquires Stormpath to boost its identity services for developers

Credit to Author: Blair Hanley Frank| Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2017 06:18:00 -0800

Okta has acquired Stormpath, a company that provides authentication services for developers. The deal should help the identity provider improve its developer-facing capabilities.

Stormpath offered developers a set of tools for managing user logins for their apps. Rather than building a login system from scratch, developers could call the Stormpath API and have the company take care of it for them. Frederic Kerrest, Okta’s co-founder and chief operating officer, said that the acquisition should help his company build self-service capabilities for developers.

While Okta is probably best known for its identity and access management products aimed at businesses’ internal use, the company also operates a developer platform aimed at helping app developers handle user identity. Kerrest said that the developer capabilities are a fast-growing part of Okta’s business, but that its functionality could use some help. That’s where this acquisition comes in.

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Review: vArmour flips security on its head

Credit to Author: John Breeden II| Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2017 04:45:00 -0800

Almost every cybersecurity program these days does some sort of scanning, sandboxing or traffic examination to look for anomalies that might indicate the presence of malware. We’ve even reviewed dedicated threat-hunting tools that ferret out malware that’s already active inside a network.

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