{"id":12162,"date":"2018-04-30T08:10:09","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T16:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2018\/04\/30\/news-5931\/"},"modified":"2018-04-30T08:10:09","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T16:10:09","slug":"news-5931","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2018\/04\/30\/news-5931\/","title":{"rendered":"A week in security (April 23 \u2013 April 29)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 15:17:10 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last week, we dug into <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/101\/2018\/04\/securing-financial-data-of-the-future-behavioral-biometrics-explained\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">behavioral biometrics<\/a>, explored a <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/threat-analysis\/2018\/04\/new-crossrider-variant-installs-configuration-profiles-on-macs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new crossrider variant<\/a>, and embraced the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/cybercrime\/2018\/04\/far-cry-5-download-offers-embrace-the-power-of-no\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">power of &#8220;no.&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0We also launched another <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/security-world\/2018\/04\/malwarebytes-crackme-2-another-challenge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CrackMe challenge<\/a>, took a <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/security-world\/2018\/04\/please-dont-buy-smart-toys\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deep dive into smart toys<\/a>, and finished up with a look at <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/101\/2018\/04\/the-internet-of-everything-and-digital-privacy-what-you-need-to-know\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">digital privacy in the age of IoT<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Other news<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>LinkedIn does battle with <a href=\"https:\/\/portswigger.net\/daily-swig\/linkedin-patches-leaky-autofill-feature\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">autofill problems<\/a>. (source: Daily Swig)<\/li>\n<li>Dutch police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politie.nl\/nieuws\/2018\/april\/26\/00-vijf-verdachten-in-omvangrijk-cybercrime-onderzoek.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">take down<\/a>\u00a0a revenge porn site. (source: politie(dot)nl)<\/li>\n<li>Researchers find a way to make <a href=\"https:\/\/safeandsavvy.f-secure.com\/2018\/04\/25\/researchers-find-way-to-generate-master-keys-to-hotels\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hotel master keys<\/a>. (source: F-Secure)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2018\/04\/24\/yahoo_fined_35m\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Very large fine<\/a> handed to Yahoo! (source: The Register)<\/li>\n<li>Orangeworm goes after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.symantec.com\/blogs\/threat-intelligence\/orangeworm-targets-healthcare-us-europe-asia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">healthcare services<\/a>. (source: Symantec)<\/li>\n<li>Admins of the world&#8217;s biggest DDoS market are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.europol.europa.eu\/newsroom\/news\/world\u2019s-biggest-marketplace-selling-internet-paralysing-ddos-attacks-taken-down\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">taken down<\/a>. (source: Europol)<\/li>\n<li>Dodgy miners were\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2018-04\/25\/c_137135051.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">busted in China<\/a>. (source: xinhua(dot)net)<\/li>\n<li>Are you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.helpnetsecurity.com\/2018\/04\/27\/gdpr-not-ready\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ready for GDPR<\/a>? (source: Help Net Security)<\/li>\n<li>Listening in with <a href=\"https:\/\/nakedsecurity.sophos.com\/2018\/04\/27\/getting-an-amazon-echo-app-to-silently-eavesdrop-on-you\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon Echo<\/a> (source: Naked Security)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Stay safe, everyone!<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/malwarebytes-news\/2018\/04\/week-security-april-23-april-29\/\">A week in security (April 23 \u2013 April 29)<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\">Malwarebytes Labs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/malwarebytes-news\/2018\/04\/week-security-april-23-april-29\/\" target=\"bwo\" >https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/feed\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 15:17:10 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<table cellpadding='10'>\n<tr>\n<td valign='top' align='center'><a href='https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/malwarebytes-news\/2018\/04\/week-security-april-23-april-29\/' title='A week in security (April 23 \u2013 April 29)'><img src='https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/shutterstock_610335074.jpg' border='0'  width='300px'  \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign='top' align='left'>A roundup of security news from April 23 \u2013 April 29, including worms, GDPR, DDoS markets, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Categories: <\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-categories\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/category\/malwarebytes-news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Malwarebytes news<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tags: <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/admin\/\" rel=\"tag\">admin<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/ddos\/\" rel=\"tag\">ddos<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/gdpr\/\" rel=\"tag\">gdpr<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/miners\/\" rel=\"tag\">miners<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/mining\/\" rel=\"tag\">mining<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/roundup\/\" rel=\"tag\">roundup<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/week-in-security\/\" rel=\"tag\">week in security<\/a><\/p>\n<table width='100%'>\n<tr>\n<td align=right>\n<p><b>(<a href='https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/malwarebytes-news\/2018\/04\/week-security-april-23-april-29\/' title='A week in security (April 23 \u2013 April 29)'>Read more&#8230;<\/a>)<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/malwarebytes-news\/2018\/04\/week-security-april-23-april-29\/\">A week in security (April 23 \u2013 April 29)<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\">Malwarebytes Labs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[10488,10378],"tags":[18266,10514,12116,10546,15902,901,13053,10498],"class_list":["post-12162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malwarebytes","category-security","tag-admin","tag-ddos","tag-gdpr","tag-malwarebytes-news","tag-miners","tag-mining","tag-roundup","tag-week-in-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}