{"id":10549,"date":"2017-11-20T10:10:19","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T18:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/11\/20\/news-4321\/"},"modified":"2017-11-20T10:10:19","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T18:10:19","slug":"news-4321","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/11\/20\/news-4321\/","title":{"rendered":"A week in security (November 13 \u2013 November 19)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:45:51 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last week, we gave you some tips for the inevitable online chaos that is <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/101\/2017\/11\/10-tips-safe-online-shopping-cyber-monday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cyber Monday<\/a>, explained how &#8220;trusted&#8221; root certificates can sometimes <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/security-world\/technology\/2017\/11\/when-you-shouldnt-trust-a-trusted-root-certificate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">be anything but<\/a>, and explored the strange world of <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/cybercrime\/2017\/11\/bad-romance-catphishing-explained\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">catphishing<\/a>. We also <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/cybercrime\/2017\/11\/new-trojan-malware-discovered-google-play\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pulled apart some malware<\/a> found on Google Play and laid out the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/101\/2017\/11\/explained-the-cloud\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">specifics of the cloud<\/a> in simple terms.<\/p>\n<h3>Other news<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>London Metropolitan Police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2017\/11\/17\/put_police_use_facial_recog_on_ice_london_mayor_told\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">aren&#8217;t massively keen<\/a> on facial recognition technology. (source: The Register)<\/li>\n<li>Fake News is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalshadows.com\/blog-and-research\/fake-news-is-more-than-a-political-battlecry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bigger problem<\/a> than just in the realm of the political. (source: Digital Shadows)<\/li>\n<li>Banking Trojans won&#8217;t be going away anytime soon\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/securityintelligence.com\/new-banking-trojan-icedid-discovered-by-ibm-x-force-research\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here&#8217;s another one<\/a>! (source: Security Intelligence)<\/li>\n<li>Why do bug bounty hunters, er, hunt bug bounties? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.helpnetsecurity.com\/2017\/11\/16\/motivates-bug-hunters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Study available here<\/a>. (source: Help Net Security)<\/li>\n<li>That camera in your home may have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.talosintelligence.com\/reports\/TALOS-2017-0379\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vulnerability lurking<\/a>. (source: Talos Security)<\/li>\n<li>A legitimate email appears to be <a href=\"https:\/\/io9.gizmodo.com\/netflix-is-promoting-the-punisher-with-what-looks-like-1820559693\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">phishy fun<\/a> with the Punisher. (source: io9)<\/li>\n<li>Hide your Facebook and Twitter from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/this-malware-will-steal-your-twitter-and-facebook-accounts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this piece of malware<\/a>. (source: CNet)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Stay safe everyone!<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/security-world\/week-in-security\/2017\/11\/a-week-in-security-november-13-november-19\/\">A week in security (November 13 \u2013 November 19)<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\">Malwarebytes Labs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/security-world\/week-in-security\/2017\/11\/a-week-in-security-november-13-november-19\/\" target=\"bwo\" >https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/feed\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:45:51 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<table cellpadding='10'>\n<tr>\n<td valign='top' align='center'><a href='https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/security-world\/week-in-security\/2017\/11\/a-week-in-security-november-13-november-19\/' title='A week in security (November 13 \u2013 November 19)'><img src='https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/photodune-702886-calendar-l.jpg' border='0'  width='300px'  \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign='top' align='left'>Learn what happened in the world of security during the week of November 13 \u2013 November 19.<\/p>\n<p>Categories: <\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-categories\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/category\/security-world\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Security world<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/category\/security-world\/week-in-security\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Week in security<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tags: <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/cam\/\" rel=\"tag\">cam<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/catphishing\/\" rel=\"tag\">catphishing<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/cyber-monday\/\" rel=\"tag\">cyber monday<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/email\/\" rel=\"tag\">email<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/fraud\/\" rel=\"tag\">fraud<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/google-play\/\" rel=\"tag\">Google Play<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/malware\/\" rel=\"tag\">malware<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/phish\/\" rel=\"tag\">phish<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/week-in-security\/\" rel=\"tag\">week in security<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/weekly-roundup\/\" rel=\"tag\">weekly roundup<\/a><\/p>\n<table width='100%'>\n<tr>\n<td align=right>\n<p><b>(<a href='https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/security-world\/week-in-security\/2017\/11\/a-week-in-security-november-13-november-19\/' title='A week in security (November 13 \u2013 November 19)'>Read more&#8230;<\/a>)<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/security-world\/week-in-security\/2017\/11\/a-week-in-security-november-13-november-19\/\">A week in security (November 13 \u2013 November 19)<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\">Malwarebytes Labs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[10488,10378],"tags":[16689,16659,11015,11222,9751,11268,3764,10511,10497,10498,11238],"class_list":["post-10549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malwarebytes","category-security","tag-cam","tag-catphishing","tag-cyber-monday","tag-email","tag-fraud","tag-google-play","tag-malware","tag-phish","tag-security-world","tag-week-in-security","tag-weekly-roundup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}