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Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2018 18:58:13 +0000
Hackers aren’t easing up on business or consumer targets anytime soon. So the best course of action for the industry to take is to apply the lessons learned from these attacks to future protection strategies.
Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2018 09:50:00 -0800
January 2018 was a month that will go down in patching infamy. Looking back on my notes, we had patches released, yanked, re-released and/or re-re-released on 15 different days in January. Untold thousands of machines were bricked by Microsoft patches. Millions of hours were lost chasing down bad patches and bad advice.
Although there were a couple of real bugs fixed in the January patches — the Equation Editor vulnerability being suspect #1 — most of the angst was completely superfluous. The Meltdown/Spectre patches at the heart of the drama attacked a problem that wasn’t — and isn’t — there. We still have no known Meltdown or Spectre exploits in the wild. None.
Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2018 07:55:00 -0800
Apple has kept CEO Tim Cook’s enterprise security promise, and in doing so staked space in one of the few growing sectors of the insurance market, revealing a new enterprise-focused cybersecurity offering bought to market with Cisco, Aon and Allianz.
Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2018 15:31:28 +0000
Hackers have recycled and repacked older exploits that worked well in the past to create a completely new threat.
Credit to Author: Anna Markovskaya| Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2018 13:40:24 +0000
While you’re watching YouTube, someone might just be using your device to mine cryptocurrency.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Aniruddha Dolas| Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2018 10:12:34 +0000
No wonder malspam campaigns are a major medium to spread malware. Previously, we have written about such campaigns making use of MS Office malware such as malicious macro, CVE-2017-0199, CVE-2017-8759 and DDE-based attack. Recently, we have started observing various malspam campaigns exploiting the latest MS Office vulnerability CVE-2018-11882. Let’s take a look…
Read MoreCredit to Author: Aniruddha Dolas| Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2018 10:12:34 +0000
No wonder malspam campaigns are a major medium to spread malware. Previously, we have written about such campaigns making use of MS Office malware such as malicious macro CVE-2017-0199, CVE-2017-8759 and DDE-based attack. Recently, we have started observing various malspam campaigns exploiting the latest MS Office vulnerability CVE-2018-11882. Let’s take a…
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2018 14:00:00 +0000
The memo release, Olympics hacking, and more of the week’s top security news.
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