Credit to Author: Garrett M. Graff| Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 19:06:06 +0000
The Mueller report clearly shows that Donald Trump attempted to obstruct justice, regardless of what the attorney general says.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 19:00:06 +0000
Iranian intelligence seems to be getting its own taste of a Shadow Brokers-style leak of secrets.
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Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 15:22:04 +0000
Attorney general William Barr has released the redacted Mueller report to Congress. You can read all 300-plus pages of it right here.
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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 09:57:00 -0700
The latest Internet Explorer XXE zero-day depends on you opening an infected MHT file. MHT is an old file format that’s almost always opened by IE — no matter which browser you’re using, no matter which version of Windows. Catalin Cimpanu has a good overview of this XXE vulnerability on ZDNet.
It’s a doozy of a security hole as it affects every recent version of IE, and it infects whether you’re actively browsing with IE or not.
Credit to Author: Jon Clay (Global Threat Communications)| Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 13:00:42 +0000
Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn how baby monitors may be susceptible to hacking. Also, learn about a medical flaw that enables hackers to hide malware. Read on: Is Your Baby Monitor…
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Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 18:44:03 +0000
Investigators from the New York district attorney’s office stumbled across dark web drug vendor “sinmed” thanks to suspicious ATM transactions.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 15:01:56 +0000
A mysterious new group called Sea Turtle targeted 40 organizations in a DNS hijacking spree.
Read moreCredit to Author: William “Bill” Malik (CISA VP Infrastructure Strategies)| Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 13:00:24 +0000
On April 6, 2019, a ten-bit counter rolled over. The counter, a component of many older satellites, marks the weeks since Jan 1, 1980. It rolled over once before, in the fall of 1999. That event was inconsequential because few complex systems relied on GPS. Now, more systems rely on accurate time and position data:…
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 21:33:26 +0000
Hackers spent months with full access to Outlook, Hotmail, and MSN email accounts—and got in through Microsoft’s customer support platform.
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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 08:02:00 -0700
A week ago, Microsoft released six patches that brought many machines to their knees. As I explained last Friday, when the dust cleared, it was apparent that all six of these April patches:
would trigger blue screens on reboot on most systems running Sophos antivirus products, and many systems running AV products from Avast and Avira.
Credit to Author: Jon Clay (Global Threat Communications)| Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 13:00:05 +0000
Anyone who has been in cybersecurity for any length of time knows, the threat landscape is constantly changing and requires regularly monitoring of news, blogs, podcasts, and other ways to ensure you know what is happening today. I have tried to bring this information to the public since starting my monthly threat webinar series in…
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