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Credit to Author: Martyn Williams| Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 15:37:00 -0700

One mistaken click. That’s all it took for hackers aligned with the Russian state security service to gain access to Yahoo’s network and potentially the email messages and private information of as many as 500 million people.

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has been investigating the intrusion for two years, but it was only in late 2016 that the full scale of the hack became apparent. On Wednesday, the FBI indicted four people for the attack, two of whom are Russian spies.

Here’s how the FBI says they did it:

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Security Wired

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WIRED Had a Potential Infosecurity Problem. Here’s What We Did About It

Credit to Author: Zack Tollman| Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 23:24:50 +0000

We found out about a potential exposure of some of our internal data … so we fixed it. The post WIRED Had a Potential Infosecurity Problem. Here’s What We Did About It appeared first on WIRED.

Security TrendMicro

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The View from DVLabs – Pwn2Own 2017

Credit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 22:36:06 +0000

This blog will be updated throughout the competition so keep tracking for the latest updates! A global outbreak of bigger bugs. Badder bugs. And they’re threatening the world as we know it. Yes, it sounds like a poorly-written trailer for the next summer blockbuster alien invasion movie, but in truth, it’s a reality we’ll face…

ComputerWorld Independent

March 15, 2017 admin

Inside the Russian hack of Yahoo: How they did it

Security Wired

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Russian Spies Helped Hack Yahoo, as if Tensions Weren’t High Enough

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 19:41:09 +0000

The Department of Justice pinned a major Yahoo hack on Russia, adding to cyber-tensions between the two countries. The post Russian Spies Helped Hack Yahoo, as if Tensions Weren’t High Enough appeared first on WIRED.

Security Wired

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WhatsApp Hack Shows That Even Encryption Apps Are Vulnerable in a Browser

Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 19:39:33 +0000

Web-based vulnerabilities in end-to-end messengers demonstrate why it may be safest to stick with the mobile versions of messaging apps. The post WhatsApp Hack Shows That Even Encryption Apps Are Vulnerable in a Browser appeared first on WIRED.

ComputerWorld Independent

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Defensive Computing for email attachments

Credit to Author: Michael Horowitz| Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 12:12:00 -0700

Email attachments remain an effective way to infect/compromise computers because people trust them too much. Blindly opening them is easy, simple and quick, but, it’s also not secure. What is secure?

Never open email attachments using Microsoft Office or Adobe’s PDF reading software.

Really should go without saying at this point.

Never open attachments on a Windows, Mac or Linux computer you care about or use regularly.

These old desktop systems are simply not as secure as more modern operating systems.

The safest computers for opening suspect files run iOS or Chrome OS.

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ComputerWorld Independent

March 15, 2017 admin

Microsoft fixes record number of flaws, some publicly known

Credit to Author: Lucian Constantin| Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 11:54:00 -0700

Microsoft’s batch of security patches for March is one of the largest ever and includes fixes for several vulnerabilities that are publicly known and actively exploited.

The company published 17 security bulletins covering 135 vulnerabilities in its own products and one separate bulletin for Flash Player, which has its security patches distributed through Windows Update. Nine bulletins are rated critical and nine are rated as important.

The affected products include Windows, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Office, Exchange, Skype for Business, Microsoft Lync, and Silverlight.

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