How Microsoft’s Windows Red Team Keeps PCs Safe
Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2018 11:00:00 +0000
Microsoft’s Windows red team probes and prods the world’s biggest operating system through the eyes of an adversary.
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How NATO Defends Against the Cyberattacks
Credit to Author: Jens Stoltenberg| Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2018 12:00:00 +0000
Opinion: The NATO Secretary General explains how the alliance manages the dark side of the web.
Read MoreWannaCry Hero Marcus Hutchins’ New Legal Woes Spell Trouble for White Hat Hackers
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2018 18:39:04 +0000
By expanding the case against Marcus Hutchins, the Department of Justice has signaled a troubling interpretation of cybersecurity law.
Read MoreFacebook Bug Made Up to 14 Million Users’ Posts Public For Days
Credit to Author: Louise Matsakis| Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2018 20:22:04 +0000
In late May, millions of Facebook users had new posts set to public by default.
Read MoreTippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of June 4, 2018
Credit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2018 15:12:05 +0000
It was a busy day yesterday, with Adobe issuing four emergency patches for their Flash Player, including one for a zero-day being actively exploited in the wild. Adobe has indicated that CVE-2018-5002 was discovered being used in limited, targeted attacks on Windows users in the wild. The attacks use Microsoft Office documents embedded with malicious…
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Read MoreCVE-2018-5002 – Adobe Flash Player Stack Buffer Overflow Vulnerability Alert!
Credit to Author: Sameer Patil| Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2018 09:59:53 +0000
The recent zero-day vulnerability CVE-2018-5002 in Adobe Flash Player enables attackers to perform a Remote Code Execution on targeted machines. Adobe has released a security advisory APSB18-19 on June 7, 2018 to address this issue. According to Adobe, the in-wild exploit is being used in limited, targeted attacks and it…
Read MoreBritannica Insights Is a Chrome Extension to Fix False Google Results
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Credit to Author: Louise Matsakis| Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2018 13:00:00 +0000
Encyclopedia Britannica released a Chrome extension designed to fix Google’s sometimes inaccurate “featured snippets.”
Read MoreApple's Health Record API released to third-party developers; is it safe?
Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2018 03:11:00 -0700
Apple at its Worldwide Developers Conference this week released an API that allows developers and researchers to create applications that connect to Health Records, a feature released with iOS 11.3 that allows patients to port their electronic health info to mobile devices and share data between care providers.
While the move promises to streamline the sharing of healthcare data, it also could open the door to that highly sensitive data falling into the wrong hands.