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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2019 23:49:45 +0000
Almost every month in 2019 so far has seen reports of a local government falling prey to ransomware, but this series of attacks belies an even broader threat.
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Credit to Author: Evan Schuman| Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2019 05:47:00 -0700
Ready for the mobile security news that IT doesn’t want to hear about but needs to? When security firm Positive Technologies started pen-testing various mobile apps, security holes were rampant.
We’ll plunge into the details momentarily, but here’s the upshot: “High-risk vulnerabilities were found in 38 percent of mobile applications for iOS and in 43 percent of Android applications” and “most cases are caused by weaknesses in security mechanisms — 74 percent and 57 percent for iOS and Android apps, respectively, and 42 percent for server-side components — because such vulnerabilities creep in during the design stage, fixing them requires significant changes to code.”
Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2019 04:36:00 -0700
How many bugs could a WinPatcher patch, if a WinPatcher could patch bugs?
Ends up that June’s one of the buggiest patching months in recent memory – lots of pesky little critters, and the ones acknowledged by Microsoft led to even more patches later in the month.
In June, we saw eight single-purpose Windows patches whose sole mission is to fix bugs introduced in earlier Windows patches. I call them silver bullets – all they do is fix earlier screw-ups. If you install security patches only, these eight have to be installed manually to fix the bugs introduced earlier. It’s a congenital defect in the patching regimen – bugs introduced by security patches get fixed by non-security “optional” patches, while waiting for the next month’s cumulative updates to roll around.
Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2019 13:00:00 +0000
Robert Mueller will testify, malware wrecks IoT, and more of the week’s top security news.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 16:38:21 +0000
You may not have heard of the Border Gateway Protocol, but you definitely know when it goes wrong.
Read MoreCredit to Author: katerid| Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 14:24:11 +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 about a new Internet of Things malware that’s bricked thousands of devices. Also, read about a ransomware family that’s using malvertising to direct victims to a…
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 07:00:00 +0000
A pair of recent findings show how hackers can compromise Excel users without any fancy exploits.
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Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 21:16:33 +0000
The clock’s ticking to fix a Gatekeeper bug that would let hackers slip malware onto your computer undetected.
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