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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2018 22:08:06 +0000

Georgia’s secretary of state is also its GOP gubernatorial candidate. And he just claimed that Democrats committed “cyber crimes.”

MalwareBytes Security

November 5, 2018 admin

A week in security (October 29 – November 4)

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2018 17:37:44 +0000

A roundup of security news from October 29 to November 4, including more problems with home hubs, phishing attack spikes, massively popular ransomware, and spies being charged for blueprint theft.

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Security TrendMicro

November 5, 2018 admin

Which Threats had the Most Impact During the First Half of 2018?

Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2018 15:00:50 +0000

One of the best ways for organizations to shore up their data security efforts and work toward more proactive protection is by examining trends within the threat environment. Taking a look at the strategies for attack, infiltration and infection currently being utilized by hackers can point toward the types of security issues that will continue…

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Security TrendMicro

November 5, 2018 admin

Cyber-Attacks: How to Stop a Multibillion-Dollar Problem

Credit to Author: Ed Cabrera (Chief Cybersecurity Officer)| Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2018 14:00:41 +0000

By Ed Cabrera, Chief Cybersecurity Officer for Trend Micro and Martin Bally, Vice President & Chief Security Officer for Diebold Nixdorf Where there’s money, there has always been crime. Traditional bank robbery and physical assaults on ATMs are still a challenge, and now a new breed of cyber-enabled theft—using ATMs as the endpoint for cash-outs— has become a multibillion-dollar…

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Independent Securiteam

November 4, 2018 admin

SSD Advisory – Symfony Framework forward() Remote Code Execution

Credit to Author: SSD / Ori Nimron| Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2018 14:21:53 +0000

Vulnerability Summary The following advisory describes a vulnerability found in Symfony 3.4 – a PHP framework that is used to create websites and web applications. Built on top of the Symfony Components. Under certain conditions, the Symfony framework can be abused to trigger RCE in the HttpKernel (http-kernel) component, while forward() is considered by the … Continue reading SSD Advisory – Symfony Framework forward() Remote Code Execution

Independent Krebs

November 4, 2018 admin

Who’s In Your Online Shopping Cart?

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2018 19:10:06 +0000

Crooks who hack online merchants to steal payment card data are constantly coming up with crafty ways to hide their malicious code on Web sites. In Internet ages past, this often meant obfuscating it as giant blobs of gibberish text that is obvious even to the untrained eye. These days, a compromised e-commerce site is more likely to be seeded with a tiny snippet of code that invokes a hostile domain which appears harmless or that is virtually indistinguishable from the hacked site’s own domain.

Security Wired

November 4, 2018 admin