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Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 18:45:39 +0000

A compilation of notable security news and blog posts from December 11 to December 17, including the net neutrality ruling, adult site advertising, and Bitcoin-related scams.

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QuickHeal Security

January 14, 2018 admin

Virus Infectors: a perpetual attack vector – A report by Quick Heal Security Labs

Credit to Author: Amar Patil| Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 09:51:57 +0000

2017 was the year of ransomware and cryptocurrency miners but we are still seeing infectors posing as a prominent attack vector. However, old infectors still remain a significant threat to users. In 2017, we observed a few old infector families making new versions of their old code, though no new…

Security Wired

January 14, 2018 admin

The ‘Doublespeak’ of Responsible Encryption

Credit to Author: Jonathon Keats| Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2018 13:00:00 +0000

It’s a new name for an old argument: that public agencies fighting crime and terrorism must have access to our private communications—for our own good.

Security Wired

January 14, 2018 admin

How the False Hawaii Missile Warning Could Have Happened

Credit to Author: Issie Lapowsky| Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2018 23:14:23 +0000

And where was the federal government?

ScadaICS Schneider

January 13, 2018 admin

Top Technology Trends in Automation for 2018

Credit to Author: Guest Blogger| Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 19:27:25 +0000

Craig Resnick covers the PLC, PAC, HMI, OIT and Industrial PC markets as well as the Packaging, Plastics and Rubber Industries for ARC. He is the primary analyst for many… Read more »

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Security Wired

January 13, 2018 admin

Meltdown, Spectre, Malicious Apps, and More of This Week’s Security News

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2018 13:00:00 +0000

Meltdown, Spectre, malicious Android apps, and more of the week’s top security news.

Fortinet Security

January 12, 2018 admin

Dr. StrangePatch or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying (about Meltdown and Spectre) and Love Security Advisory ADV180002

Credit to Author: Minh Tran| Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 11:39:59 +0000

Introduction 2018 truly is starting off with a bang: fundamental CPU flaws dubbed Meltdown and Spectre were found affecting pretty much all modern processors developed since the Pentium Pro (1995). These flaws root in two critical CPU features: Out of Order Execution and Speculative Execution, which are crucial for performance. Since this is an important feature and not a bug, it is inherently hard to fix. Furthermore, for performance reasons, speculative execution is almost always implemented in hardware, so “fixes”…

Fortinet Security

January 12, 2018 admin

An Analysis of the OpenSSL SSL Handshake Error State Security Bypass (CVE-2017-3737)

Credit to Author: Dehui Yin| Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 11:39:59 +0000

OpenSSL is a widely used library for SSL and TLS protocol implementation that secures data using encryption and decryption based on cryptographic functions. However, a Security Bypass vulnerability – recently addressed in a patch by the OpenSSL Project –can be exploited to make vulnerable SSL clients or remote SSL servers send clean application data without encryption. This Security Bypass vulnerability (CVE-2017-3737) is caused by an error when the SSL_read or SSL_write function handles an "error state" during an SSL handshake….