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Mobile Menace Monday: Is Fuchsia OS the end of Android?

December 17, 2018 admin 0 Comments Android, cybercrime, flutter, fuchsia, google, Mobile, mobile menace monday, operating system, triple m, Zircon

Credit to Author: Gleb Malygin| Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2018 20:10:25 +0000

The next major Android version will be Android Q and not Android 9.1 Pie. In parallel, Google is also developing a new operating system based on its own microkernel called Fuchsia. Will this be the OS that replaces Android? Read on to find out.

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A week in security (December 10 – 16)

December 17, 2018 admin 0 Comments Android, Bitcoin bomb threat, bug, Facebook, mac malware, passwords, Security world, SMB vulnerabilities, USB sticks, Week in security, Windows 10

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2018 17:58:31 +0000

A roundup of last week’s security news from December 10–16, including facial recognition technology, abandoned USB sticks, even more trouble at Facebook, Google bugs, and more.

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How threat actors are using SMB vulnerabilities

December 17, 2018 admin 0 Comments 101, Business, EternalBlue, EternalChampion, EternalRomance, Exploits, NSA tools, ShadowBrokers, SMB vulnerabilities, vulnerabilities

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2018 16:00:00 +0000

SMB vulnerabilities have been so successful for criminals that they’ve been used in some of the most devastating ransomware and Trojan attacks of the last two years. Learn how they work and how your organization can protect against them.

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Compromising vital infrastructure: the power grid

December 17, 2018 admin 0 Comments backup, blackenergy, blackout, Business, crashoverride, cyberattacks, cybercrime, dragonfly, NRC, nuclear, OPEC, power grid, Renewable energy, sandworm, stuxnet

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 16:00:00 +0000

How are we doing at protecting the vital infrastructure of our power grid and its components against physical and cyberattacks?

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Tags: backup blackenergy blackout crashoverride cyberattacks dragonfly nrc Nuclear OPEC power grid renewable energy sandworm stuxnet

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Data scraping treasure trove found in the wild

December 11, 2018 admin Business, cybercrime, data scraping, email, LinkedIn, privacy, scrapers, spam

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 16:56:54 +0000

3 large databases containing scraped content landed in front of security researchers. How bad is it?

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Flurry of new Mac malware drops in December

December 11, 2018 admin backdoors, Mac, mac malware, macros, Microsoft Word, Social engineering, Threat analysis, Word

Credit to Author: Thomas Reed| Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 16:00:00 +0000

Multiple new pieces of Mac malware have appeared in December, all distributed through different means, but all opening backdoors on infected computers.

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Tags: backdoors mac malware macros microsoft word Social Engineering word

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A week in security (December 3 – 9)

December 10, 2018 admin 0-day exploit, Adobe Flash, big breaches, Dunkin’ Donuts, Flash Player zero day, humble bundle, mac malware, Marriott, Quora, Security world, under the radar, undetectable malware, Week in security, Zero day exploit, Zero-Day

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 17:32:10 +0000

A roundup of last week’s security news from December 3–9, including a new Mac malware, new Flash zero-day vulnerability, new Malwarebytes report focusing on current undetectable malware, and breaches happening left and right.

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Something else is phishy: How to detect phishing attempts on mobile

December 10, 2018 admin 101, ad-networking phishing, homograph attacks, How-tos, https, iOS, Mobile, phishing, phishing apps, Punycode, smishing, Social Phishing, unicode, url padding, vishing

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 15:00:56 +0000

Phishing is more problematic on smartphones than on desktops. Not only that, approaches to handling phishing attacks on mobile are quite different because their techniques are also different. So, how can users sniff out a mobile phish? Let us count the ways.

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