Independent – Page 369 – Computer Security Articles

Credit to Author: Richard Hoffman| Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 03:01:00 -0700

International border crossings are often legal gray areas where government agents can, and sometimes do, ask travelers for access to their laptops, phones and other mobile devices. Complying with the request allows them to freely search, read or copy documents, emails, passwords, contacts and social media account information.

Here’s how to safeguard corporate and personal data when traveling with recent Android-based phones and tablets, using the Chrome browser. (Part 1 of this series, which focuses on the legal background of border searches, and traveling tips for Apple devices, is available here.)

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Independent Securiteam

July 24, 2017 admin

Know your community – Celil ÜNÜVER

Credit to Author: SSD / Maor Schwartz| Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 09:57:46 +0000

Bug Bounty hunter – found and reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, IBM, Novell and more, Co-Founder of TRAPMINE and SignalSEC, Founder of NOPCon, speaker at PoC / Code Blue / Swiss Cyber Storm / CONFidence and more – please meet Celil ÜNÜVER Questions Q: How many years have you been working in the security … Continue reading Know your community – Celil ÜNÜVER

Independent Securiteam

July 24, 2017 admin

SSD Advisory – Nitro Pro PDF Multiple Vulnerabilities

Credit to Author: SSD / Maor Schwartz| Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 05:25:58 +0000

Vulnerabilities Summary The following advisory describes three vulnerabilities found in Nitro / Nitro Pro PDF. Nitro Pro is the PDF reader and editor that does everything you will ever need to do with PDF files. The powerful but snappy editor lets you change PDF documents with ease, and comes with a built-in OCR engine that … Continue reading SSD Advisory – Nitro Pro PDF Multiple Vulnerabilities

ComputerWorld Independent

July 21, 2017 admin

Where are the fixes to the botched Outlook security patches?

Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 05:39:00 -0700

On June 13—five and a half weeks ago—Microsoft released a series of buggy patches for Outlook. We know they’re buggy because Microsoft acknowledged seven bugs (including one primarily caused by bugs in Windows patches) in those four original June 13 security patches. As of this morning, we still don’t have fixes for those seven bugs.

Here are the known buggy original security patches:

KB 3191898 – Security update for Outlook 2007, released June 13, 2017
KB 3203467 – Security update for Outlook 2010, released June 13
KB 3191938 – Security update for Outlook 2013, June 13
KB 3191932 – Security update for Outlook 2016, June 13

If you have Automatic Update turned on, you were treated not only to those patches, but to all of these three later, interim fixes for the bugs in the security patches. Don’t get too excited about them. In fact, they didn’t fix the bugs:

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Independent Krebs

July 20, 2017 admin

Exclusive: Dutch Cops on AlphaBay ‘Refugees’

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 18:14:42 +0000

Following today’s breaking news about U.S. and international authorities taking down the competing Dark Web drug bazaars AlphaBay and Hansa Market, KrebsOnSecurity caught up with the Dutch investigators who took over Hansa on June 20, 2017. When U.S. authorities shuttered AlphaBay on July 5, police in The Netherlands saw a massive influx of AlphaBay refugees who were unwittingly fleeing directly into the arms of investigators. What follows are snippets from an exclusive interview with Petra Haandrikman, team leader of the Dutch police unit that infiltrated Hansa. Vendors on both AlphaBay and Hansa sold a range of black market items — most especially controlled substances like heroin. According to the U.S. Justice Department, AlphaBay alone had some 40,000 vendors who marketed a quarter-million sales listings for illegal drugs to more than 200,000 customers. The DOJ said that as of earlier this year, AlphaBay had 238 vendors selling heroin. Another 122 vendors advertised Fentanyl, an extremely potent synthetic opioid that has been linked to countless overdoses and deaths. In our interview, Haandrikman detailed the dual challenges of simultaneously dealing with the exodus of AlphaBay users to Hansa and keeping tabs on the giant increase in new illicit drug orders that were coming in daily as a result.

Independent Krebs

July 20, 2017 admin

After AlphaBay’s Demise, Customers Flocked to Dark Market Run by Dutch Police

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 16:23:23 +0000

Earlier this month, news broke that authorities had seized the Dark Web marketplace AlphaBay, an online black market that peddled everything from heroin to stolen identity and credit card data. But it wasn’t until today, when the U.S. Justice Department held a press conference to detail the AlphaBay takedown that the other shoe dropped: Police in The Netherlands for the past month have been operating Hansa Market, a competing Dark Web bazaar that enjoyed a massive influx of new customers immediately after the AlphaBay takedown.

ComputerWorld Independent

July 20, 2017 admin

Tech Talk: Azure Stack, cyberattacks, the next iPhone and … keyboards

Credit to Author: Ken Mingis| Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 09:00:00 -0700

The premiere episode of Tech Talk covered a lot of ground as our four-member panel weighed in on everything from Microsoft’s just-announced Azure Stack to the trials of IT security pros buffeted by ongoing cyberattacks to the fate of Touch ID in the upcoming iPhone 8.

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