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Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 23:46:54 +0000

The bad news: Tuesday’s missile test shows that North Korea’s ICBM can likely hit the US. The slightly less bad news: It’s still a long way off from actually doing so.

Security Wired

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Apple MacOS High Sierra Security Flaw Lets Anyone Get Root Access, No Password Required

Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 22:47:10 +0000

A Turkish company found a glaring flaw in Apple’s desktop operating system that gives anyone deep access, no password required.

MalwareBytes Security

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A week in security (November 20 – November 26)

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 19:25:39 +0000

Learn what happened in the world of security during the week of November 20 to November 26.

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Kaspersky Security

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What is 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

Security TrendMicro

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Our Exposed World – Exposed Cities in Europe

Credit to Author: Natasha Hellberg (Senior Threat Researcher)| Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 20:11:58 +0000

Today Trend Micro’s FTR team released more papers on our our continued investigation into our exposed world. Already having looked at the Exposed US, we now turn our attention to Europe, looking not only at Western European capitals, but deeper into three of its largest countries – Germany, France, and the United Kingdom. Once again…

MalwareBytes Security

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Please don’t buy this: identity theft protection services

Credit to Author: William Tsing| Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 17:31:58 +0000

Identity theft protection services promise to have your back against cybercriminals looking to steal your data. But they don’t actually stop them from taking your identity. Are they worth it, then? We say no.

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Tags: credit card credit monitoring Equifax Experian fraud identity theft IdentityForce IdentityWorks Lifelock please don’t buy this

Security Wired

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How Bots Broke the FCC’s Public Comment System During the Net Neutrality Debate

Credit to Author: Issie Lapowsky| Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 17:19:04 +0000

The FCC’s net neutrality public comment period was overrun with bots, making it all but impossible for any one voice to be heard. That’s not how this is supposed to work.

Fortinet Security

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Fortinet Quarterly Threat Landscape Report: The Battle Against Cybercrime Continues to Escalate

Credit to Author: Anthony Giandomenico| Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 13:30:59 +0000

Fortinet today announced the findings of its latest Global Threat Landscape Report. The research reveals that high botnet reoccurrence rates and an increase of automated malware demonstrate that cybercriminals are leveraging common exploits combined with automated attack methods at unprecedented speed and scale.