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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2018 14:00:00 +0000
A higher Equifax tally, Apple vulnerabilities, and more of the week’s top security news.
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Credit to Author: Issie Lapowsky| Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2018 00:18:36 +0000
By leaving Instagram followers off the public record, Columbia researcher Jonathan Albright says Facebook is making the Russian trolls’ true audience appear artificially low.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Natasha Hellberg (Senior Threat Researcher)| Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2018 16:28:01 +0000
Natasha Hellberg, Senior Threat Researcher FTR With assistance from William Gamazo Sanchez, DSLabs Within the last few days a new player has been introduced into the distribute denial of service (DDoS) amplification attack world and with it brings the potential for much larger DDoS attacks than what we have seen in the past. While most…
Credit to Author: David Newman| Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 23:12:40 +0000
If oral argument in *US v. Microsoft* proved anything, it’s that no one involved wants the courts to decide—including the justices.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2018 16:22:09 +0000
Pwn2Own 2018 is coming up in a couple of weeks and I am excited to see what interesting vulnerabilities will pop up at the contest. I attempted to explain the contest to my mom, and in the simplest terms, I told her that Pwn2Own is a contest where contestants are rewarded for breaking something. It’s…
Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 14:24:00 -0800
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is cracking down on FinTech companies issuing initial coin offerings (ICOs), and has served dozens of subpoenas and information requests.
The regulatory action is the latest in a series of warnings related to the multi-billion cryptocurrency market and the sale of digital tokens, which in some cases may violate federal laws, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The SEC declined comment on the report.
Cryptocurrencies, or digial tokens such as bitcoin, Ether and Ripple, are based on blockchain technology and have existed in a gray area that allows for cross-border transactions that are far more efficient than traditional fiat-based currencies such as dollars or euros.
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 16:54:04 +0000
While still the best protection against phishing attacks, some Yubikey models are vulnerable after a recent update to Google Chrome.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 16:01:43 +0000
On Wednesday, a 1.3Tbps DDoS attack pummeled GitHub for 15-20 minutes. Here’s how it stayed online.
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