{"id":12355,"date":"2018-05-21T10:10:08","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T18:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2018\/05\/21\/news-6124\/"},"modified":"2018-05-21T10:10:08","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T18:10:08","slug":"news-6124","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2018\/05\/21\/news-6124\/","title":{"rendered":"A week in security (May 14 \u2013 May 20)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Mon, 21 May 2018 17:17:10 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last week, we looked at the deluge of <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/security-world\/privacy-security-world\/2018\/05\/gdpr-causes-a-flood-of-new-policies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">incoming policies caused by GDPR<\/a>, tackled <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/threat-analysis\/2018\/05\/adobe-reader-zero-day-discovered-alongside-windows-vulnerability\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adobe Reader zero days<\/a>, and ran through some <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/101\/2018\/05\/seven-security-tips-staying-safe-iphone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iPhone security tips<\/a>. We also <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/cybercrime\/2018\/05\/fake-malwarebytes-helpline-scammer-caught-act\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">caught some helpline scammers in the act,<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/security-world\/conferences-security-world\/2018\/05\/exploring-virtual-worlds-advergaming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">explored advergaming<\/a>, got our <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/101\/2018\/05\/tech-companies-wanted-senate-bill-315-vetoed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill<\/a> game face on, and deep dived into <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/threat-analysis\/2018\/05\/look-drupalgeddon-client-side-attacks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Drupal vulnerabilities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Other news<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2018\/05\/16\/canonical_snaps_review_process_improvements_promised\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mining apps in Snaps store<\/a> controversy (Source: The Register)<\/li>\n<li>Man identified in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/us-identifies-suspect-in-major-leak-of-cia-hacking-tools\/2018\/05\/15\/5d5ef3f8-5865-11e8-8836-a4a123c359ab_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spy tools leak<\/a> (Source: Washington Post)<\/li>\n<li>Facial recognition technology <a href=\"https:\/\/bigbrotherwatch.org.uk\/all-campaigns\/face-off-campaign\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">under fire<\/a> (Source: Big Brother Watch)<\/li>\n<li>Phishers increasingly targeting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.helpnetsecurity.com\/2018\/05\/17\/phishing-saas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SaaS\/cloud storage<\/a> (Source: Help Net Security)<\/li>\n<li>Yet another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2168713-huge-new-facebook-data-leak-exposed-intimate-details-of-3m-users\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook leak<\/a> (Source: New Scientist)<\/li>\n<li>Signal caught by <a href=\"https:\/\/ivan.barreraoro.com.ar\/signal-desktop-html-tag-injection\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HTML tag injection<\/a> (Source: Ivan Barerra Oro Blog)<\/li>\n<li>iOS has a <a href=\"https:\/\/zipperdown.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ZipperDown<\/a> problem (Source: Zipperdown(dot)org)<\/li>\n<li>Avoid this <a href=\"https:\/\/nakedsecurity.sophos.com\/2018\/05\/18\/dont-invest-the-ico-scam-that-doesnt-want-your-money\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ICO scam<\/a> (Source: Naked Security)<\/li>\n<li>Avoiding phishing with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.business.com\/articles\/machine-learning-spear-phishing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">machine learning<\/a> (Source: Business dot com)<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s always time for <a href=\"https:\/\/lifehacker.com\/how-to-deal-with-mshelper-the-latest-mac-malware-1826142837\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">some more Mac malware<\/a> (Source: LifeHacker)<\/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\/2018\/05\/a-week-in-security-may-14-may-20\/\">A week in security (May 14 \u2013 May 20)<\/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\/2018\/05\/a-week-in-security-may-14-may-20\/\" target=\"bwo\" >https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/feed\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Mon, 21 May 2018 17:17:10 +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\/2018\/05\/a-week-in-security-may-14-may-20\/' title='A week in security (May 14 \u2013 May 20)'><img src='https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/shutterstock_610335074.jpg' border='0'  width='300px'  \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign='top' align='left'>A roundup of security news from May 14 \u2013 May 20, including Mac malware, machine learning, advergaming, tech support scams, and much more.<\/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\/facebook\/\" rel=\"tag\">facebook<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/gdpr\/\" rel=\"tag\">gdpr<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/mac-malware\/\" rel=\"tag\">mac malware<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/machine-learning\/\" rel=\"tag\">machine learning<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/mining\/\" rel=\"tag\">mining<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/phishing\/\" rel=\"tag\">phishing<\/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\/2018\/05\/a-week-in-security-may-14-may-20\/' title='A week in security (May 14 \u2013 May 20)'>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\/2018\/05\/a-week-in-security-may-14-may-20\/\">A week in security (May 14 \u2013 May 20)<\/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":[3589,12116,11976,12038,901,3924,10497,10498],"class_list":["post-12355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malwarebytes","category-security","tag-facebook","tag-gdpr","tag-mac-malware","tag-machine-learning","tag-mining","tag-phishing","tag-security-world","tag-week-in-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12355","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=12355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}