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Credit to Author: Mark Nunnikhoven (Vice President, Cloud Research)| Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2017 13:00:44 +0000
Google’s Next 2017 conference kicks off today with a series of bootcamps. The regular program starts on Wednesday and runs through Friday, highlighting the latest offerings in the Google Cloud. This is the third iteration of the conference and as with the Google Cloud itself, the show is going to be bigger and better than…
Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2017 17:56:59 +0000
President Trump made extraordinary claims about Obama wiretapping Trump Tower. If true, it may say more about Trump and his associates. The post If the Feds Did Wiretap Trump Tower, It’s Not Obama Who Should Worry appeared first on WIRED.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Wired Staff| Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2017 12:00:36 +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: An IoT Teddy Bear Leaked Millions of Parent and Child Voice Recordings appeared first on WIRED.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Greg Allen| Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2017 12:00:06 +0000
Physics and economics have partly protected humans from weapons of mass destruction, but what if WMD of the future are both devastating and cheap? The post Thank Goodness Nukes Are So Expensive and Complicated appeared first on WIRED.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2017 00:59:53 +0000
Mike Pence joins an ever-growing list of public figures whose email account fell to hackers. It only gets worse from here. The post The Golden Age of Email Hacks Is Only Getting Started appeared first on WIRED.
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Credit to Author: Ryan Francis| Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2017 12:51:00 -0800
Ransomware is running rampant. The SonicWall GRID Threat Network detected an increase from 3.8 million ransomware attacks in 2015 to 638 million in 2016. According to a Radware report, 49 percent of businesses were hit by a ransomware attack in 2016. Quite often the attacker asks for some amount of cybercurrency – usually Bitcoin – in exchange for providing a decryption key.
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Credit to Author: Lucian Constantin| Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2017 12:41:00 -0800
HackerOne, the company behind one of the most popular vulnerability coordination and bug bounty platforms, has decided to make its professional service available to open-source projects for free.
“Here at HackerOne, open source runs through our veins,” the company’s representatives said in a blog post. “Our company, product, and approach is built on, inspired by, and driven by open source and a culture of collaborative software development. As such, we want to give something back.”
HackerOne is a platform that makes it easier for companies to interact with security researchers, triage their reports, and reward them. Very few companies have the necessary resources to build and maintain bug bounty programs on their own with all the logistics that such efforts involve, much less so open-source projects that are mostly funded through donations.
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Credit to Author: Maor Schwartz| Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2017 16:04:16 +0000
Vulnerabilities Summary The following advisory describes two (2) vulnerabilities found in MuraCMS version 6.2. MuraCMS is an open source content management system for CFML, created by Blue River Interactive Group. Mura has been designed to be used by marketing departments, web designers and developers. The vulnerabilities found in MuraCMS are: Unauthenticated remote arbitrary code execution … Continue reading SSD Advisory – MuraCMS Multiple Vulnerabilities
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