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Almost every IT security professional is concerned that the latest advanced persistent threats (APTs) have made them potential targets of sophisticated cyberespionage campaigns. A survey of IT security leaders in the U.S. and several European countries…
Continue Readingof Marcus Hutchins. Twitter feed Louise Mensch is an independent British/American journalist. Remember the reluctant WannaCry hero? WannaCry was ransomware that made big headlines in mid-2017 for two important reasons. First, it was a true computer wor…
Continue ReadingThe firm fixed nearly 300 bugs across its products, saying many were at risk of being actively exploited.
Oracle has fixed nearly 300 bugs, many of them high-risk, across its range of products, urging administrators to apply the patches quickly due to…
Continue ReadingMan Bites Dog Dept: MSFT supports human rights!! (Reuters) Henry Baker Wed, 17 Apr 2019 21:24:08 -0700 [Once again, I had to carefully check the date on this article to make sure that it wasn’t April 1st!] As much as I applaud the zeal of all the newl…
Continue ReadingWipro is not alone. After tracking an alarming increase in the number of private-sector business that have been attacked by foreign intelligence entities, the National Counterintelligence and Security Center in January launched a public campaign to edu…
Continue ReadingDan Goodin writes via Ars Technica: A researcher has uncovered strange and unexpected behavior in Windows 10 that allows remote attackers to steal data stored on hard drives when a user opens a malicious file downloaded with the Edge browser. The threa…
Continue ReadingBy: Ranga Duraisamy and Kassiane Westell (Vulnerability Researchers) A zero-day extensible markup language (XML) external entity (XXE) injection vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) was recently disclosed by security researcher John Page. …
Continue Readingvia UK security and counter-terrorism | The Guardian Killing of journalist in Derry unites Sinn Féin and unionists against dissident republicans The New IRA have a modern-sounding name, but the shooting of Lyra McKee harks back to a strand of atavistic…
Continue ReadingCisco Talos says state-sponsored attackers are battering DNS to gain access to sensitive networks and systems
Security experts at Cisco Talos have released a report detailing what it calls the “first known case of a domain name registry organization t…
Continue Readingvia www.infosecurity-magazine.com Fraudsters Exploit Sympathies Surrounding Notre Dame TragedyFraudsters are preying on the goodwill of people everywhere by using the tragic fire of Notre Dame to their advantage.According to research by security compan…
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