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Monthly Archives: September 2016

Criticize Donald Trump, get your site smashed offline from Russia
Fancy Bears hacked MH17 crash investigators with spear-phishing campaign
Crypto guru Matt Green asks courts for DMCA force field so he can safely write a textbook

  Another week, another threat recap. And this week wasn’t without its fair share of cyber incidents. Voter registration misstep? Check. New ransomware? Check. KrebsOnSecurity attack? Check! Here are five of the major security stories happening this week. Company Security Falls to Outdated Network Devices With the steady rise in security breaches, one of the biggest […]

Someone hacked this billboard in Indonesia and defaced with Japanese porn

security update

Academics Put Another Dent in Online Anonymity
ISC updates critical DoS bug in BIND DNS software
Upstart bags $2.5m to help put the brakes on self-driving car hackers

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for python-twisted-web is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact [More…]

LinuxSecurity.com: Security Report Summary

LinuxSecurity.com: The system could be made unavailable under certain conditions.

Google dev tools beef up Content Security Policy defenses
Israeli Tech firm claims its new CatchApp can hack any WhatsApp account
Security firm pours cold water on Yahoo’s state-sponsored hack claim
Virtual desktop and cloud service pays £18,600 to ransomware extortionists
Firefox blocks websites with vulnerable encryption keys
Report a Grim Reminder of State of Critical Infrastructure Security
Japanese man arrested for selling jailbroken iPhones
Threatpost News Wrap, September 30, 2016
NHS trusts ‘complacent’ on cloud app security risks
Flashback Friday: SQL Slammer

Within a few hours of being released in the winter of 2003, SQL Slammer had brought the internet to something of a standstill. We look back at this notable worm. The post Flashback Friday: SQL Slammer appeared first on WeLiveSecurity.

Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and IBM team up on AI
SIMS Game Custom Content Site Hacked; 118K Accounts Leaked
DMV worker accused of using state computer to ask customer on a date
Earn $1.5 million by remotely jailbreaking iOS 10
What to do when hackers break into your cloud
Use stronger authentication, urge White House and tech companies
Security analyst says Yahoo!, Dropbox, LinkedIn, Tumblr all popped by same gang
Want to make US$1.5m this weekend? Just jailbreak iOS

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

‘Syrian Electronic Army’ goon extradited from Germany now coughs to hacking, extortion
Backdoored D-Link Router Should be Trashed, Researcher Says
Apple Users Targeted with iCloud Phishing Scam
Zerodium Triples its iOS 10 Bounty to $1.5 Million
Yahoo Challenged on Claims Breach Was State-Sponsored Attack

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Microsoft opens up its ‘million dollar’ bug-finder
Cisco Warns of Critical Flaw in Email Security Appliances
Aussie Border Police Bust Dark Net Drug Dealer
Russian hackers likely targeted journalists investigating Flight MH17
Microsoft widens Edge browser bug hunt for bounty hunters
FBI probes possible hacks targeting phones of Democratic Party staff
Why a massive DDoS attack on a blogger has internet experts worried
VESK coughs up £18k in ransomware attack
Internet’s largest 1Tbps DDoS Attack was conducted using 145k hacked cameras
SMS spammer cops big fine for close to 8 million text message spams
Vendetta Brothers Cyber Crooks Adopt Real World Tactics
Russian hackers target MH17 journalists for embarrassing Putin
Major bank attacks thwarted by SWIFT thinking
Pippa Middleton’s hacked iCloud photos banned from publication
Fingerprint tech makes ATMs super secure, say banks. Crims: Bring it on, suckers
Why employees are still a security risk
Syrian Electronic Army hacker pleads guilty after sending victim scan of his passport
Lab test reveals 10x productivity gain from real-time threat intelligence for SIEMs
FBI reports more attempts to hack voter registration system
What’s left for BlackBerry? The products that still matter
Microsoft’s cloud dominance comes with a security risk
Yahoo! Answers used to cloak command and control networks
Researchers crack Oz Govt medical data in ‘easy’ attack with PCs
D-Link DWR-932 B owner? Trash it, says security bug-hunter
Yahoo could have reset all user passwords two years ago, but chose not to

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Microsoft Unveils Cloud-Based Fuzz-Testing Service

security update

ISC Patches Critical Error Condition in BIND
How to create a security startup and bag VC millions – step one: Containers, AI or cloud
CloudFlare tells court it does not assist pirate sites: Report

LinuxSecurity.com: Security Report Summary

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for kvm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, [More…]

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact [More…]

Congressional Leaders Demand Answers on Yahoo Breach
Meet Apache Spot, a new open source project for cybersecurity
Mozilla to take action against WoSign’s woeful cryptographic blunders
Marissa Mayer declined to reset Yahoo users’ passwords 2 years ago
DarkNet Hackers ‘DarkOverlord’ Hack WestPark Capital Bank for Ransom
Hacker downloads 2.2 million PLAINTEXT passwords from teen social site
Microsoft Edge Adds App Guard Browser Security
Internet of Things security? Start with who owns the data
Germany Orders Facebook to Stop Collecting Data on WhatsApp Users
Microsoft preps defence against the dark arts for enterprise customers
TheDarkOverlord holds investment bank to ransom, or else hacked files will be released
How do you approach continuous security?
Urgent! Log in for spear-phisher survey or your account will be deleted
Financial sector expands use of blockchain databases
Analysts laud and lance new Microsoft browser armor
Facebook ordered to stop collecting WhatsApp user data in Germany
Opera browser starts running traffic through its own “VPN”

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for bind97 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, [More…]

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for bind is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact [More…]

Growth of cybercrime is ‘ruthless’

Cybercrime has established itself as a permanent fixture in 21st century life, with the number of incidents and victims continuing to rise with dogged determination. The post Growth of cybercrime is ‘ruthless’ appeared first on WeLiveSecurity.

Google, Dropbox the latest US tech giants to sign up to the Privacy Shield
Donald Trump says hackers sit in their bedrooms, weighing 400lb
Aerospace industry warned of targeted attacks from the Komplex OS X trojan
Germany tells Facebook to delete and stop saving WhatsApp user data

security update

Type: Vulnerability. Adobe Flash Player is prone to multiple unspecified memory-corruption vulnerabilities; fixes are available.

LinuxSecurity.com: New bind packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix a security issue. [More Info…]