Ethereum Thefts Cost Investors Millions
Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2017 16:00:00 +0000
Ethereum thefts, an Ashley Madison settlement, another leaky Amazon S3 bucket, and more of this week’s top security news.
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Antivirus for Android Has Terrible Track Record
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2017 12:00:00 +0000
A new study shows that 94 percent of Android antivirus failed to stop a comprehensive set of malware attacks.
Read MoreLetting Cyberattack Victims Hack Back Is a Very Unwise Idea
Credit to Author: Greg Nojeim | Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2017 11:00:00 +0000
Opinion: Retaliating against hacks is the wrong way to prevent them.
Read MoreA GAO Sting Scored $1.2 Million in Weapons From an Unsuspecting Department of Defense
Credit to Author: Eli Hager| Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 21:33:05 +0000
A federal sting reveals lax oversight in the Defense Department’s gear giveaway program.
Read MoreTippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of July 17, 2017
Credit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 18:07:14 +0000
If you conduct a search on the Web for the number of languages spoken around the world, you’ll see numbers ranging anywhere from 6,000-7,000. I figure I’m doing okay since I can speak English and Spanish, sign the English alphabet, recite the Greek alphabet, and read music. There are roughly over 1.2 billion web sites…
Where are the fixes to the botched Outlook security patches?
Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 05:39:00 -0700
On June 13—five and a half weeks ago—Microsoft released a series of buggy patches for Outlook. We know they’re buggy because Microsoft acknowledged seven bugs (including one primarily caused by bugs in Windows patches) in those four original June 13 security patches. As of this morning, we still don’t have fixes for those seven bugs.
Here are the known buggy original security patches:
- KB 3191898 – Security update for Outlook 2007, released June 13, 2017
- KB 3203467 – Security update for Outlook 2010, released June 13
- KB 3191938 – Security update for Outlook 2013, June 13
- KB 3191932 – Security update for Outlook 2016, June 13
If you have Automatic Update turned on, you were treated not only to those patches, but to all of these three later, interim fixes for the bugs in the security patches. Don’t get too excited about them. In fact, they didn’t fix the bugs:
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Watch a Homemade Robot Crack a SentrySafe Combination Safe in 15 Minutes
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 11:00:00 +0000
Not so safe after all.
Read MoreAs Cyberattacks Destabilize the World, the State Department Turns a Blind Eye
Credit to Author: Emily Dreyfuss| Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 11:00:00 +0000
“It’s manifestly ridiculous.”
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