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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 00:44:33 +0000
A new, targeted malware called Lipizzan could completely take over an Android device until Android Security shut it down
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 20:37:52 +0000
Carriers have ignored flaws in SS7 that allow hackers easy access to telecoms. A new set of open-source tools hopes to jumpstart a fix.
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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 09:55:00 -0700
The fourth Tuesday of the month has come and gone, and it now looks reasonably safe to patch Windows and Office. I was expecting two big releases yesterday — one to fix numerous bugs in Win10 Creators Update, version 1703; the other to plug the bugs introduced by June’s Office security patches — but neither trove appeared. Given Microsoft’s past patterns, it’s unlikely that we’ll see any more serious patches until next month’s Patch Tuesday, on Aug. 8.
There’s also a bit of additional impetus right now. On July 17, security researcher Haifei published a proof of concept for running malware scripts directly in Office apps. I haven’t seen any exploits in the wild as yet, but it would be a good idea to install KB 3213640 (Office 2007), KB 3213624 (Office 2010), KB 3213555 (Office 2013) and/or KB 3213545 (Office 2016) in the short term. (Thx to @LeaningTowardsLinux.) Note that none of these patches, as best as I can tell, correct the Office bugs introduced in June.
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Credit to Author: Ashley Feinberg| Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 14:59:54 +0000
The dueling Congressman had some strong opinions about telecom and nudity.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 12:00:00 +0000
From anti-drone shotgun shells to a drone-snagging megadrone, security researchers put the drone defense arsenal to the test.
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Credit to Author: Antonio García Martínez| Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 10:00:00 +0000
En Cuba, donde los datos gotean vía una red sobrecargada controlada por el gobierno—en su caso—la gente ha puesto en escena la revolución del auto autor.
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Credit to Author: Antonio García Martínez| Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 10:00:00 +0000
In Havana, where data trickles in via overloaded, government-controlled networks—if at all—the people have taken matters into their own hands.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Sharky| Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 03:00:00 -0700
IT pilot fish is moving on with his career, but before he changes employers, he comes up with an easier way for users to get on the company intranet.
“I wanted to relieve the staff of the need to memorize yet another username/password combination — or write it on a sticky note to be posted on the wall,” says fish.
“So I set up an interface that used Windows Active Directory for access authorization, with appropriate fallback in case the domain controller couldn’t be accessed. The whole thing worked like a dream.”
Fast forward a couple years: Fish is brought back in to add more capabilities to the Intranet that’s been faithfully chugging along since he left. But as fish starts on the new project, the IT director casually mentions that intranet logins have been running a lot slower. Could fish perhaps check into that too?
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