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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 05:03:00 -0800

For those of you who haven’t patched since May, there’s exceedingly bad news on the horizon. Per Catalin Cimpanu at ZDNet, Metasploit’s working-but-just-barely BlueKeep exploit is about to get a significant bug fix. That’ll put BlueKeep infection capabilities in the hands of mere mortals. The script kiddies won’t be far behind.

If you’re using — or you know someone who’s using — Windows XP, Vista, Win7, Server 2003, Server 2008 or Server 2008 R2, get patched now. The fix is easy. Even Aunt Martha can handle it.

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Security Wired

November 9, 2019 admin

Huge Data Leak Doxes Members of Notorious Neo-Nazi Forum

Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2019 19:03:20 +0000

Apple Mail encryption, Ring doorbell Wi-Fi, and more of the week’s top security news.

Security Wired

November 9, 2019 admin

How Do We Bring Equality to Data Ownership and Usage?

Credit to Author: Zak Jason| Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2019 02:43:45 +0000

Computational biologist Laura Boykin says scientists are “asleep at the wheel”; activist Malkia Devich-Cyril says citizens also need to pressure technology companies to change.

Security Wired

November 9, 2019 admin

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on the Struggles of Policing the Web

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 22:28:18 +0000

At WIRED25 the internet infrastructure chief talks about doing the hard calculus of pulling support from controversial sites—and why that’ll happen again.

Security Wired

November 9, 2019 admin

What Keeps NSA Cybersecurity Boss Anne Neuberger Up at Night

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 21:02:45 +0000

At WIRED25, the NSA’s Anne Neuberger talked election security, low-orbit satellites, and weaponized autonomous drones.

Security Wired

November 9, 2019 admin

WhatsApp Cofounder Brian Acton on Why Privacy Matters

Credit to Author: Boone Ashworth| Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 20:06:33 +0000

The cofounder of the messaging service and the current chair of the Signal Foundation talks about the proliferation of end-to-end encryption in personal communications.

Fortinet Security

November 8, 2019 admin

FortiGuard Labs Weekly Threat Update – Week of 08 November 2019

Learn about the cyber threats uncovered during the week of November 8, 2019, including the exploitation of the BlueKeep Vulnerability, SVG image attack vectors, and more.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/fortinet/blog/threat-research/~4/CTU02tjcb1E” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

ScadaICS Schneider

November 8, 2019 admin

EcoXperts Play Central Role in Solution Development for Commercial Real Estate

Credit to Author: Kimberly Tremblay| Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 14:17:46 +0000

With the world’s population closing in on 8 billion, the commercial real estate industry will become even more critical to providing housing and office space than at any other time… Read more »

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