A Whole New Way to Hack Self-Driving Cars
Credit to Author: Emily Dreyfuss| Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2017 11:00:00 +0000
Each Saturday we roundup the major security news of the week.
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Chasing down leakers fast with ThinAir's asset tracking
Tony Gauda, CEO of ThinAir, talks with CSO senior writer Steve Ragan about how the ThinAir system tracks which users within an organization have seen each piece of data, spotting anomalous information and quickly finding the source of a leak.
TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of July 31, 2017
Credit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2017 13:39:37 +0000
During the DefCon Conference last week, a Windows SMB vulnerability was revealed late last week by researchers from RiskSense. The 20-year-old bug can be found in Windows 2000 up to Windows 10. Microsoft has indicated that it will not be issuing a patch for the vulnerability as it doesn’t meet their bar for servicing in…
Russia and China’s VPN Crackdown Leaves Few Places to Turn
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2017 14:00:00 +0000
As China and Russia crack down on VPN services, digital rights activists sound the alarm.
Read MoreNew Surface Pro 4 driver restores Windows Hello — and this time it’s documented
Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2017 03:43:00 -0700
Last night, Microsoft released a new Surface Camera driver called “Surface – System – 7/31/2007 12:00:00 AM – 1.0.75.1” which is intended to fix the Windows Hello problem introduced by the completely undocumented driver “Surface – System – 7/21/2017 12:00:00 AM – 1.0.65.1.” Many of you complained that, after installing the buggy driver, your Surface Pro 4 no longer supported Windows Hello.
As best as I can tell, this 1.0.75.1 driver update fixes the problem. But there’s more to the story.
The original, buggy driver was dated July 21, the files were dated July 26, and the driver was sent down the Automatic Update chute on July 29 without warning or description.
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An analysis of TrickBot Malware by Quick Heal Security Labs
Credit to Author: Quick Heal Security Labs| Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2017 04:30:42 +0000
TrickBot has been a busy malware in the last month because of its various polymorphic propagation methods and techniques. We have seen collective versions and the same medium of propagation – the spam emails. These emails contain attachments to download or a direct link to spread the malicious payload. Trickbot…
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Read MoreWannaCry-Stopping Hacker MalwareTech Charged With Helping Write Kronos Banking Trojan
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2017 19:40:54 +0000
Marcus Hutchins is under arrest in Las Vegas for allegedly writing Kronos, a banking trojan, three years ago.
Read MoreResearcher Who Stopped WannaCry Ransomware Detained in US After Def Con
Credit to Author: Joseph Cox| Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2017 16:22:50 +0000
Marcus Hutchins, AKA MalwareTech, previously registered a specific domain included in the ransomware’s code, which stopped the malware from spreading.
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