{"id":6649,"date":"2017-02-15T13:12:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T21:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/02\/15\/news-468\/"},"modified":"2017-02-15T13:12:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T21:12:00","slug":"news-468","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/02\/15\/news-468\/","title":{"rendered":"A week in security (Feb 6th \u2013 Feb 12th)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 19:58:07 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last week, we gave a shout out to <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/101\/2017\/02\/celebrate-safer-internet-day\/\" target=\"_blank\">Safer Internet Day<\/a>, passed around some tips for safe(r) <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/101\/2017\/02\/wi-fi-security-101\/\" target=\"_blank\">public Wi-Fi use<\/a>, and took a deep dive into <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/puppum\/2017\/02\/spigot-browser-hijackers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Spigot browser hijackers<\/a>. We had double the trouble in Mac land, with the defense industry coming under fire from <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/threat-analysis\/2017\/02\/macdownloader-malware-targeting-defense-industry\/\" target=\"_blank\">rogue downloaders<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/cybercrime\/2017\/02\/microsoft-office-macro-malware-targets-macs\/\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft office macro Malware<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Deleted data <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.elcomsoft.com\/2017\/02\/elcomsoft-extracts-deleted-safari-browsing-history-from-icloud\" target=\"_blank\">lingers on<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Unencrypted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2017\/02\/09\/filesilo_lost_plaintext_passwords\/\" target=\"_blank\">password theft<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cra0kalo\/status\/828947326425133057\" target=\"_blank\">XSS problems<\/a> affect Steam.<\/li>\n<li>A light is shone on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.helpnetsecurity.com\/2017\/02\/08\/exploit-word-documents\/\" target=\"_blank\">AKBuilder<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Smart TVs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/forums\/discussions\/vizio-coughs-up-2-2m-after-its-smart-tvs-spied-on-millions\/\" target=\"_blank\">spy on their owners<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Scammers go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldtribune.com\/news\/20170212\/grammatically-incorrect-phishing-scam\" target=\"_blank\">phishing for tax information<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The NHS becomes a target for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.out-law.com\/en\/articles\/2017\/february\/ransomware-hits-nhs-trusts\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ransomware<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Phishes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkreading.com\/attacks-breaches\/cloud-storage-the-new-favorite-target-of-phishing-attacks\/d\/d-id\/1328078\" target=\"_blank\">targeting cloud storage<\/a> set to overtake financial scams in popularity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Stay safe, everyone!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/security-world\/2017\/02\/a-week-in-security-feb-6th-feb-12th\/\" target=\"bwo\" >https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/feed\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 19:58:07 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<table cellpadding='10'>\n<tr>\n<td valign='top' align='center'><a href='https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/security-world\/2017\/02\/a-week-in-security-feb-6th-feb-12th\/' title='A week in security (Feb 6th \u2013 Feb 12th)'><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'>A round up of the last week&#8217;s notable security stories.<\/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\/downloader\/\" rel=\"tag\">downloader<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/mac\/\" rel=\"tag\">mac<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/safer-internet-day\/\" rel=\"tag\">safer internet day<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/spigot\/\" rel=\"tag\">Spigot<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/weekly-round-up\/\" rel=\"tag\">weekly round up<\/a><\/p>\n<table width='100%'>\n<tr>\n<td align=right>\n<p><b>(<a href='https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/security-world\/2017\/02\/a-week-in-security-feb-6th-feb-12th\/' title='A week in security (Feb 6th \u2013 Feb 12th)'>Read more&#8230;<\/a>)<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[11382,10454,11228,10497,11280,10498,11383],"class_list":["post-6649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malwarebytes","category-security","tag-downloader","tag-mac","tag-safer-internet-day","tag-security-world","tag-spigot","tag-week-in-security","tag-weekly-round-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6649","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=6649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}