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Credit to Author: Gilad Edelman| Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2020 17:33:55 +0000

The nation’s first primary is proudly low-tech, but it’ll take more than paper ballots to defuse the disinformation threat.

Security Wired

February 6, 2020 admin

Donald Trump Now Has the Senate GOP’s Blessing to Undermine Democracy

Credit to Author: Garrett M. Graff| Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2020 16:55:06 +0000

After making it through a criminal investigation and political impeachment unscathed, Trump now has free rein to invite election interference and more.

Security Wired

February 6, 2020 admin

Hackable Cisco Phones, a Locust Invasion, and More News

Credit to Author: Alex Baker-Whitcomb| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 21:42:57 +0000

Catch up on the most important news from today in two minutes or less.

Security Sophos

February 6, 2020 admin

Living off another land: Ransomware borrows vulnerable driver to remove security software

Credit to Author: Andrew Brandt| Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2020 15:22:24 +0000

Sophos has been investigating two different ransomware attacks where the adversaries deployed a legitimate, digitally signed hardware driver in order to delete security products from the targeted computers just prior to performing the destructive file encryption portion of the attack. The signed driver, part of a now-deprecated software package published by Taiwan-based motherboard manufacturer Gigabyte, […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/uepwaOU8_Ek” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

Kaspersky Security

February 6, 2020 admin

Transatlantic Cable podcast, episode 128

Credit to Author: Jeffrey Esposito| Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2020 14:25:44 +0000

On this podcast, Dave and Jeff talk shop on the latest security issues exposed in Ring, GDPR’s impact, corporate espionage, a surprise Microsoft update, and more.

MalwareBytes Security

February 5, 2020 admin

Fintech security: the challenges and fails of a new era

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 19:24:35 +0000

The fintech industry has gone through some dramatic changes during the last decade and is still trying to adapt. Is security still one of their priorities?

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Vital infrastructure

Tags: cryptocurrency finacials fintech gdpr green padlock identity management Magecart payment requests ransomware vital infrastructure web skimmers

Magazine Security VirusBulletin

February 5, 2020 admin

VB2019 paper: The cake is a lie! Uncovering the secret world of malware-like cheats in video games

At VB2019 in London, Kaspersky researcher Santiago Pontiroli presented a paper on the growing illegal economy around video game cheats and its parallels with the malware industry. Today we publish both Santiago’s paper and the recording of his presentation.