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Credit to Author: Keith Rayle| Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 07:50:01 -0700

Blockchain is a technology that basically distributes a ledger. For those of you in the financial management world, you know a ledger as the trusted source of transactions or facts. The same is true with blockchain. But instead of existing in a large leather bound tome or in a financial management application, blockchains are managed by a distributed set of computing resources working together to maintain that ledger. Each transaction, or block within it, is linked together in an indisputable manner using public/private key encryption and internal…

Security TrendMicro

March 17, 2017 admin

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of March 13, 2017

Credit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 12:00:04 +0000

There was never any doubt what my topic would be for this week’s blog. March Madness, right? Normally I’d be talking about the NCAA Basketball tournament, but not this time. Our March Madness is called Pwn2Own. We celebrated the 10th anniversary of Pwn2Own in Vancouver this week with the biggest contest ever with 11 teams…

Security TrendMicro

March 17, 2017 admin

The Results – Pwn2Own 2017 Day Two

Credit to Author: Dustin Childs (Zero Day Initiative Communications)| Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 08:42:52 +0000

The second day of competition in this year’s Pwn2Own closed out with a record 17 entries for a single day. In fact, due to the significant number of contestants registered for the 10th anniversary edition of Pwn2Own, we divided the second day into two different tracks: Track A focus on Adobe and Microsoft products while…

Independent Krebs

March 16, 2017 admin

Google Points to Another POS Vendor Breach

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 00:11:57 +0000

For the second time in the past nine months, Google has inadvertently but nonetheless correctly helped to identify the source of a large credit card breach — by assigning a “This site may be hacked” warning beneath the search results for the Web site of a victimized merchant.

ComputerWorld Independent

March 16, 2017 admin

Yahoo breach shows the drawbacks of state-sponsored hacking

Credit to Author: Michael Kan| Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 17:57:00 -0700

When governments turn to private hackers to carry out state-sponsored attacks, as the FBI alleges Russia did in the 2014 breach of Yahoo, they’re taking a big risk.

On the one hand, it gives them a bit of plausible deniability while reaping the potential spoils of each attack, but if the hackers aren’t kept on a tight leash things can turn bad.

Karim Baratov, the 22-year-old Canadian hacker who the FBI alleges Russia’s state security agency hired to carry out the Yahoo breach, didn’t care much for a low profile.

His Facebook and Instagram posts boasted of the million-dollar house he bought in a Toronto suburb and there were numerous pictures of him with expensive sports cars — the latest an Aston Martin DB9 with the license plate “MR KARIM.”

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Security TrendMicro

March 16, 2017 admin

Pwn2Own 2017 – Day Three Schedule and Results

Credit to Author: Dustin Childs (Zero Day Initiative Communications)| Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 00:07:09 +0000

The third and final day of the largest Pwn2Own shapes up with four entries and the awarding of Master of Pwn. It’s a tight race with multiple teams still in the running. Here’s the schedule for Day Three: 9:00am – 360 Security (@mj011sec) targeting Microsoft Edge with a SYSTEM-level escalation and a virtual machine escape…

Security Wired

March 16, 2017 admin

Trump Can’t Quit His Wiretap Claims. That Won’t End Well

Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 00:07:22 +0000

The Trump administration keeps doubling down on a surveillance story, even though it’s in their best interests to drop it. The post Trump Can’t Quit His Wiretap Claims. That Won’t End Well appeared first on WIRED.