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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 22:34:22 +0000

A newly-discovered flaw in macOS High Sierra — Apple’s latest iteration of its operating system — allows anyone with local (and, apparently in some cases, remote) access to the machine to log in as the all-powerful “root” user without supplying a password. Fortunately, there is a simple fix for this until Apple patches this inexplicable bug: Change the root account’s password now.

Security Wired

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Apple MacOS High Sierra Security Flaw Lets Anyone Get Root Access, No Password Required

Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 22:47:10 +0000

A Turkish company found a glaring flaw in Apple’s desktop operating system that gives anyone deep access, no password required.

MalwareBytes Security

November 28, 2017 admin

A week in security (November 20 – November 26)

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 19:25:39 +0000

Learn what happened in the world of security during the week of November 20 to November 26.

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Kaspersky Security

November 28, 2017 admin

What is secure OS?

Credit to Author: Andrey Doukhvalov| Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 21:51:38 +0000

How we can say that KasperskyOS is really a secure platform

ComputerWorld Independent

November 28, 2017 admin

Microsoft Patch Alert: November’s forced upgrades, broken printers and more

Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 13:08:00 -0800

There are so many issues with this month’s security patches that it’s hard to decide where to begin. Let’s start with the problems that have been acknowledged, then move into the realm of what’s not yet fully defined.

Forced upgrades

Many users have remarked about how much the forced 1703-to-1709 Windows 10 upgrades feel like Microsoft’s detested forced upgrades from Win 7 and 8.1 to 10 – the “Get Windows X” campaign. Although the situation’s different on the surface, the net result is the same. Many people who were happily using Windows 10 Fall Update – version 1703 – were forcibly upgraded this month to the Fall Creators Update – version 1709 – even on systems that were not supposed to be upgraded.

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Independent Securiteam

November 28, 2017 admin

SSD Advisory – ZTE ZXDSL Configuration Reset

Credit to Author: SSD / Maor Schwartz| Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 13:18:47 +0000

Vulnerability Summary The following advisory describes a configuration reset vulnerability found in ZTE ZXDSL 831CII version 6.2. ZXDSL 831CII is “an ADSL access device to support multiple line modes. It supports ADSL2/ADSL2+ and is backward compatible to ADSL, even offers auto-negotiation capability for different flavors (G.dmt, T1.413 Issue 2) according to central office DSLAM’s settings … Continue reading SSD Advisory – ZTE ZXDSL Configuration Reset

Security TrendMicro

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Our Exposed World – Exposed Cities in Europe

Credit to Author: Natasha Hellberg (Senior Threat Researcher)| Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 20:11:58 +0000

Today Trend Micro’s FTR team released more papers on our our continued investigation into our exposed world. Already having looked at the Exposed US, we now turn our attention to Europe, looking not only at Western European capitals, but deeper into three of its largest countries – Germany, France, and the United Kingdom. Once again…

ScadaICS Schneider

November 28, 2017 admin

Proceed with Caution: How to Safely Recover a Building from a Power Outage

Credit to Author: Patrick Bois| Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 20:35:37 +0000

Extreme weather appears to be all too common of late, with multiple devastating hurricanes and major storms hitting the Caribbean, southeastern U.S. and even Ireland over the last couple of… Read more »

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