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In January, Microsoft’s scheduled updates fixed numerous security flaws that included some few critical ones. However, with Microsoft February Patch Tuesday update bundle, the vendors address quite a bunch of critical vulnerabilities. It also addresses…
Continue ReadingOut with the old, in with the… Old Phantom Crypter, which despite its name is actually a new Microsoft Office exploit builder that’s been surpassing its predecessors in popularity among the cybercriminal community. Gabor Szappanos, principal malware re…
Continue ReadingThis week, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) described a high-risk security vulnerability ( CVE-2019-5736 ) for organizations using containers that could lead to compromised host systems. Containers run on top of host systems an…
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So, who is most at risk from such attacks? These certificate attacks threaten a range of organizations, starting with the certificate authority (CA) to governments and large enterprises. Certificate Authorities. Cybe…
Continue ReadingMicrosoft act to defend against credential stealing attacks on Office 365. Back in December 2018, we published an advisory after seeing a number of credential stealing attacks affecting Office 365. The advisory gave details on how to protect those acco…
Continue ReadingWelcome to this week’s Cyber Security Week in Review, where Cisco Talos runs down all of the news we think you need to know in the security world. For more news delivered to your inbox every week, sign up for our Threat Source newsletter Top headlines …
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Continue ReadingThis month, we got patches for 74 vulnerabilities in total. One of them has been exploited and two vulnerabilities have been made public before today. The known exploited vulnerability (CVE-2019-0676) may lead to information disclosure and affects Inte…
Continue ReadingJust days after the news that 620 million accounts had gone on sale on the Dark Web, another trove of data has emerged. A new batch of 127 million records stolen from eight companies is now available on Dark Web market Dream Market, according to …
Continue ReadingA panel of eggheads from Intel, the US government, and academia held court this week to figure how they can keep the likes of El Reg from spoiling their next major bug reveal. The group met at the Churchill Club in San Francisco to reflect on 2018’s bi…
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