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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2017 11:00:14 +0000
Tax fraud is a free-for-all, it’s time to take back some control. The post Tax Scams Are Absurdly Common. Here’s How to Protect Yourself appeared first on WIRED.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2017 12:02:34 +0000
Each weekend we round up the news stories that we didn’t break or cover in depth but that still deserve your attention. The post Security News This Week: Taser Bets Big on the Surveillance State appeared first on WIRED.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2017 11:00:58 +0000
In 2013, the world disposed of 1300 tons of Syria’s chemical weapons. It wasn’t enough. The post Why It’s So Hard to Wipe Out All of Syria’s Chemical Weapons appeared first on WIRED.
Read MoreCredit to Author: William Tsing| Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2017 15:00:23 +0000
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| The common conception of cyber attacks is kind of like bad weather: ranging from irritating to catastrophic, but always unpredictable. Hackers are simply too sophisticated to draw any reliable judgments on and we shouldn’t try. As it turns out, some hackers are fairly predictable in their successful use of really dumb attacks. Categories: Tags: Business Email Compromisecyber attackcyber threatsddosmalwareransomwarescamsql |
The post The top 5 dumbest cyber threats that work anyway appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2017 18:41:41 +0000
Late last week, a buffer overflow vulnerability in IIS 6.0 on Windows 2003 servers, identified by CVE-2007-7269, was publicly disclosed. The vulnerability can be exploited since no bounds checking is done on headers matching a particular pattern within the PROPFIND method requests and successful attempts can lead to remote code execution on vulnerable targets. According…
Credit to Author: Jasper Manuel and Artem Semenchenko | Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2017 08:58:18 -0700
In part 1 of FortiGuard Labs’ analysis of a new variant of the BADNEWS backdoor, which is actively being used in the MONSOON APT campaign, we did a deep technical analysis of what this backdoor of capable of and how the bad guys control it using the command and control server. In this part of the analysis, we will try to discover who might be behind the distribution of these files.
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Credit to Author: Jasper Manuel and Artem Semenchenko| Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2017 08:58:03 -0700
Three weeks ago, FortiGuard Labs, along with @_ddoxer (Roland de la Paz), using VirusTotal Intelligence queries, spotted a document with the politically themed file name (Senate_panel.doc). This malicious RTF file takes advantage of the vulnerability CVE-2015-1641.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Marvin the Robot| Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2017 16:25:43 +0000
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