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Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 18:00:10 +0000

If you think closing your browser window to leave a site that runs a cryptominer will stop the mining process, think again. Persistent drive-by cryptomining has arrived.

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Tags: coinhive Cryptojacking cryptomining Drive-by mining monero popunder

Security Wired

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Expensify’s Use of Amazon Mechanical Turk Reveals Privacy Risks Behind AI

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 17:42:33 +0000

As a recent flare-up around Expensify shows, behind every AI that analyzes your data, teams of human workers pick up the slack.

MalwareBytes Security

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Serious macOS vulnerability exposes the root user

Credit to Author: Thomas Reed| Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 16:00:02 +0000

A major macOS vulnerability in High Sierra was reported. Anyone can log in as “root” with an empty password. Learn more.

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Tags: Apple High Sierra macOS macOS vunerability root user

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Security Wired

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The FCC’s Net Neutrality Comments Included Millions of Fake Emails and More

Credit to Author: Issie Lapowsky| Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 15:00:00 +0000

A new analysis of the FCC’s net neutrality comment period shows millions of fake or duplicate email addresses and other alarming absurdities.

Kaspersky Security

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What is a secure OS?

Credit to Author: Andrey Doukhvalov| Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 21:51:38 +0000

How we can say that KasperskyOS is really a secure platform

QuickHeal Security

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Technical Analysis of ‘IcedID’: a new sophisticated banking Trojan – an analysis by Quick Heal Security Labs

Credit to Author: Bajrang Mane| Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:23:03 +0000

IcedID is a new player in the banking Trojan family. It has a modular architecture and capable of stealing banking credentials of the user by performing a man-in-the-middle attack (MITM). IcedID sets up a local proxy and redirects all Internet traffic through it. Additionally, it can download and execute components…

Security TrendMicro

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Our Exposed World – How Exposures Translate into Attacks

Credit to Author: Natasha Hellberg (Senior Threat Researcher)| Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:00:41 +0000

One of the questions I am asked often is why am I not more concerned about sophisticated attacks? Why do I not deeply investigate new exploits as they are released? To which I reply “because the old ones still cause more damage.” After 30 years of looking at the security of networks, the main trend…

Security Wired

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Supreme Court Must Understand That Cell Phones Aren’t Voluntary

Credit to Author: Andrew D. Selbst| Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 12:00:00 +0000

Opinion: The US argues that police can access cell phone records freely because customers volunteer that data. But cell phones are no longer optional.