February 10, 2016
Setting up a Windows 10 picture PIN
Identity thieves obtain 100,000 electronic filing PINs from IRS system
February 10, 2016
Let’s bring back the balance between IT and business
February 10, 2016
Source: ZDNet Security – Posted by Dave Wreski A new bill introduced by two congressmen aims to prevent local legislatures from enacting laws weakening security or banning sales of encrypted smartphones in their states. On Wednesday, Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA, 33rd) introduced the bipartisan draft bill — dubbed the Ensuring National Constitutional Rights of […]
February 10, 2016
Source: arsTechnica – Posted by Anthony Pell Google has confirmed a number of changes to Gmail with the arrival of two new features that will let you know if the people you�re corresponding with aren�t hip with TLS encryption. The alterations are fairly subtle: when you receive a message from, or are on the […]
February 10, 2016
Gmail to warn you if your friends aren’t using secure e-mail
Google has confirmed a number of changes to Gmail with the arrival of two new features that will let you know if the people you�re corresponding with [...]
February 10, 2016
Source: tomsHardware – Posted by Dave Wreski After New York and California tried to pass bills that ban phones from using disk encryption that only the device owners can decrypt, senator John McCain wants to ban all encryption that can�t be decrypted by companies and the government at the federal level. McCain called for […]
February 10, 2016
Source: Motherboard – Posted by Anthony Pell A hacker, who wishes to remain anonymous, plans to dump the apparent names, job titles, email addresses and phone numbers of over 20,000 supposed Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) employees, as well as over 9,000 alleged Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees, Motherboard has learned. The hacker […]
February 10, 2016
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Internet Explorer and Edge are prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability; fixes are available.
February 10, 2016
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services is prone to a denial of service vulnerability; fixes are available.
February 10, 2016
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Internet Explorer and Edge are prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability; fixes are available.
February 10, 2016
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Internet Explorer is prone to a remote privilege-escalation vulnerability; fixes are available.
February 10, 2016
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Internet Explorer is prone to a remote privilege-escalation vulnerability; fixes are available.
February 10, 2016
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Internet Explorer is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability; fixes are available.
February 10, 2016
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Internet Explorer is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability; fixes are available.
February 10, 2016
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Internet Explorer is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability; fixes are available.
February 10, 2016
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Internet Explorer is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability; fixes are available.
February 10, 2016
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Internet Explorer is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability; fixes are available.
February 10, 2016
Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.
February 10, 2016
Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.
February 10, 2016
Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.
February 10, 2016
LinuxSecurity.com: New libsndfile packages are available for Slackware 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix security issues. [More Info…]
February 10, 2016
LinuxSecurity.com: New curl packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix a security issue. [More Info…]
February 10, 2016
LinuxSecurity.com: USN-2880-1 introduced a regression in Firefox.
February 10, 2016
LinuxSecurity.com: Security Report Summary
February 10, 2016
LinuxSecurity.com: Security Report Summary
February 10, 2016
Many of you are probably familiar with VirusTotal, a service that allows you to scan a file or URL using multiple antivirus and URL scanners. VirusTotal results are often used in write-ups about new malware to show how widely a sample is detected by the AV community. We receive links to VirusTotal results via our […]
February 9, 2016
Google adds warning to unencrypted emails
February 9, 2016
In a 2016 survey of 500 PC gamers, Webroot discovered statistically significant differences in the ways that male and female gamers approach internet security, 3rd party modifications, and the way they choose to portray their gender online. In fact, we found surprisingly large discrepancies between those who identified as male and those who identified as […]
February 9, 2016
Southwest Airlines flight giveaway scams spread on Facebook
There is no such thing as a free lunch, and even if there was… who likes airline food that much anyway? The post Southwest Airlines flight giveaway scams spread on Facebook appeared first on We Live Security.
February 9, 2016
US government wants to sharply increase spending on cyber security
February 9, 2016
Cybersecurity e-learning course launches in the UK for HR staff
A new e-learning tool has been launched in the UK to help HR professionals effectively deal with cybersecurity issues in the British workplace. The post Cybersecurity e-learning course launches in the UK for HR staff appeared first on We Live Security.
February 9, 2016
Adwind evolves to offer cyber criminals one-stop shop for malware
February 9, 2016
Stay safe with our Facebook cheat sheet
Learn how to boost your Facebook privacy on Safer Internet Day with our excellent cheat sheet. It’ll work to your advantage now and in the future. The post Stay safe with our Facebook cheat sheet appeared first on We Live Security.
February 9, 2016
5 tips to protect your admin credentials
February 9, 2016
LinuxSecurity.com: Nearly three years after former NSA contractor Edward Snowden first leaked details about massive domestic spying, his revelations have prompted a broader discourse, especially among legal scholars, over the potentially invasive nature of big data cybersurveillance tools.
February 9, 2016
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Internet Explorer is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability; fixes are available.
February 9, 2016
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Internet Explorer is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability; fixes are available.
February 9, 2016
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Outlook for Mac is prone to a security vulnerability that may allow attackers to conduct spoofing attacks; fixes are available.
February 9, 2016
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Office is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability; fixes are available.
February 9, 2016
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Office is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability; fixes are available.
February 9, 2016
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Office is prone to a privilege-escalation vulnerability; fixes are available.
February 9, 2016
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Internet Explorer is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability; fixes are available.
February 9, 2016
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Internet Explorer is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability; fixes are available.
February 9, 2016
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Internet Explorer is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability; fixes are available.
February 9, 2016
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Internet Explorer is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability; fixes are available.
February 9, 2016
LinuxSecurity.com: An updated sos package that fixes one security issue and one bug is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security [More…]
February 9, 2016
LinuxSecurity.com: Updated python-django packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 for RHEL 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security [More…]
February 9, 2016
LinuxSecurity.com: Update from 3.13.1 to 3.13.2 for bug-fixes. Includes security fix forCVE-2015-8708.
February 9, 2016
LinuxSecurity.com: – update to upstream release 1.8.1 – CVE-2016-0747: Insufficient limits ofCNAME resolution in resolver – CVE-2016-0746: Use-after-free during CNAMEresponse processing in resolver – CVE-2016-0742: Invalid pointer dereference inresolver
February 9, 2016
LinuxSecurity.com: Prosody 0.9.10 ============== A summary of changes in this release: Security——– * mod_dialback: Adopt key generation algorithm from XEP-0185, toprevent impersonation attacks (CVE-2016-0756) Fixes and improvements———————- * Startup: Open /dev/urandom read-only, to fix afailure to start on some systems (fixes #585) * Networking: Improve handling ofthe ‘select’ network backend running out of file descriptors […]
February 9, 2016
LinuxSecurity.com: Security Report Summary
February 9, 2016
LinuxSecurity.com: Security Report Summary
February 9, 2016
security update
February 9, 2016
security update
February 9, 2016
security update
February 9, 2016
security update
February 9, 2016
Student arrested for grade changing school data breach
A 17-year-old student in American has been arrested and charged with illegally accessing government computers, months after the data breach took place. The post Student arrested for grade changing school data breach appeared first on We Live Security.
February 8, 2016
Java installer flaw shows why you should clear your Downloads folder
February 8, 2016
Report: Hacker steals, posts personal details on 9,000 DHS employees
February 8, 2016
Cyber criminals cash out using PowerShell, other legitimate tools
February 8, 2016
Remtasu is disguising itself as a tool to appropriate Facebook accounts
Almost a year ago we warned about the spreading of Remtasu, and far from lessening, we have been able to identify numerous instances of this threat being propagated further. The post Remtasu is disguising itself as a tool to appropriate Facebook accounts appeared first on We Live Security.
February 8, 2016
The security review: Encryption 101 and Android security updates
Highlights from the past seven days in information security include encryption insights, Android updates, Facebook at 12 and a data breach at UCF in the US. The post The security review: Encryption 101 and Android security updates appeared first on We Live Security.
February 8, 2016
LinuxSecurity.com: Bring technologists and members of the intelligence community together to figure out what to do about unbreakable encryption and guess what they conclude? They conclude that they don’t really need to worry about it.
February 8, 2016
I forgot my Windows 10 password!
February 8, 2016
LinuxSecurity.com: Three and a half years after he sought temporary asylum in the Ecuadorean embassy in London only to find himself a captive instead, a UN group has ruled that UK and Swedish authorities unlawfully detained WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in violation of their international human rights obligations.
February 8, 2016
LinuxSecurity.com: On Sunday, an account on Twitter posted a Department of Homeland Security staff directory with 9,355 names. Shortly after the DHS data was posted, the account went on to claim that an additional data dump focused on 20,000 FBI employees was next.
February 8, 2016
LinuxSecurity.com: Days after a group of concerned professors raised alarm bells over a new network monitoring system installed at the University of California, Berkeley and the other nine campuses of the University of California system, a separate committee of system-wide faculty has now given its blessing.
February 8, 2016
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Internet Explorer is prone to a remote privilege-escalation vulnerability; fixes are available.
February 8, 2016
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft VBScript and JScript are prone to multiple remote memory-corruption vulnerabilities; fixes are available.
February 8, 2016
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Internet Explorer is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability; fixes are available.
February 8, 2016
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Office is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability; fixes are available.
February 8, 2016
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Office is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability; fixes are available.
February 8, 2016
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Internet Explorer is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability; fixes are available.
February 8, 2016
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Internet Explorer and Edge are prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability; fixes are available.
February 8, 2016
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Office is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability; fixes are available.
February 8, 2016
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows is prone to a local information-disclosure vulnerability; fixes are available.
February 8, 2016
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Internet Explorer is prone to an information-disclosure vulnerability; fixes are available.
February 8, 2016
security update
February 8, 2016
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Edge is prone to a remote privilege-escalation vulnerability; fixes are available.
February 7, 2016
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Edge is prone to a security-bypass vulnerability; fixes are available.
February 7, 2016
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Edge is prone to a security vulnerability that may allow attackers to conduct spoofing attacks; fixes are available.
February 7, 2016
Type: Vulnerability. Android is prone to a remote security vulnerability.
February 7, 2016
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Edge is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability; fixes are available.
February 7, 2016
Type: Vulnerability. Adobe Flash Player and AIR are prone to multiple unspecified memory-corruption vulnerabilities; fixes are available.
February 7, 2016
Type: Vulnerability. Adobe Flash Player and AIR are prone to multiple remote code-execution vulnerabilities; fixes are available.
February 7, 2016
Type: Vulnerability. Adobe Flash Player and AIR are prone to multiple remote code-execution vulnerabilities; fixes are available.
February 7, 2016
Type: Vulnerability. Adobe Flash Player and AIR are prone to a stack-based buffer-overflow vulnerability; fixes are available.
February 7, 2016
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Internet Explorer is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability; fixes are available.
February 7, 2016
security update
February 7, 2016
8 hot technologies the CIA wants
February 6, 2016
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability; fixes are available.
February 6, 2016
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability; fixes are available.
February 6, 2016
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability; fixes are available.
February 6, 2016
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Office is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability; fixes are available.
February 6, 2016
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability; fixes are available.
February 6, 2016
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Office is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability; fixes are available.
February 6, 2016
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Office is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability; fixes are available.
February 6, 2016
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Office is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability; fixes are available.
February 6, 2016
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Office is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability; fixes are available.
February 6, 2016