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Canada’s Privacy Watchdog Is Investigating Equifax
Credit to Author: Jordan Pearson| Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 15:43:40 +0000
The credit firm still won’t say how many Canadians are affected.
Read MoreFeds Give Kaspersky Security Products the Boot, and Other Security News This Week
Credit to Author: Wired Staff| Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2017 12:00:00 +0000
Kaspersky, Apple, and more of the week’s top security news.
Read MoreHow One of Apple’s Key Privacy Safeguards Falls Short
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 13:28:27 +0000
Apple has boasted of its use of a cutting-edge data science known as “differential privacy.” Researchers say they’re doing it wrong.
Read MoreDeep Analysis of New Poison Ivy/PlugX Variant – Part II
Credit to Author: Xiaopeng Zhang| Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 12:50:00 +0000
This is the second part of the FortiGuard Labs analysis of the new Poison Ivy variant, or PlugX, which was an integrated part of Poison Ivy’s code. In the first part of this analysis we introduced how this malware was installed onto victim’s systems, the techniques it used to perform anti-analysis, how it obtained the C&C server’s IP&Port from the PasteBin website, and how it communicated with its C&C server.
Read MoreTippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of September 11, 2017
Credit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 14:59:53 +0000
In last week’s blog, I mentioned the Apache Struts vulnerability, which is still making headlines as estimates show that as many as 65 percent of Fortune 500 companies use it in some form. In addition, Equifax claims it has played a role in their breach affecting more than 143 million Americans. On July 11, 2017,…
Canadians Are Still Waiting for Equifax to Tell Them How Screwed They Are
Credit to Author: Jordan Pearson| Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 15:43:40 +0000
Why are you doing this to us, Equifax?
Read MoreTrump’s FCC Will Let Big Telecom Destroy Small Houston ISPs As It Rebuilds After Harvey
Credit to Author: Kaleigh Rogers| Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 15:33:59 +0000
The FCC has rules in place to prevent Big Telecom from leaving local competitors in the lurch, but it’s currently scrapping those rules.
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