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Hacker Admits to Mirai Attack Against Deutsche Telekom
Veritaseum Hack: Another Ethereum ICO Hacked; Loses $8.4 Million
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Glassdoor pushes back against moves to identify anonymous reviewers
Your pacemaker could be put in the witness box against you

LinuxSecurity.com: Heimdal could allow unintended access to network services.

88% feel vulnerable to data threats

Thales Group has announced the results of its 2017 data threat report, showing that the number of global data breaches has increased from 2016. The post 88% feel vulnerable to data threats appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Going to Black Hat? Bring your (marketing) wallet

This year at Black Hat, it will be incumbent upon newer vendors to make sensational claims to gain market share from established vendor, says Cameron Camp. The post Going to Black Hat? Bring your (marketing) wallet appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

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Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Online criminals clone UK university’s website to phish for cash

LinuxSecurity.com: A heap-based buffer underflow flaw was discovered in catdoc, a text extractor for MS-Office files, which may lead to denial of service (application crash) or have unspecified other impact, if a specially crafted file is processed.

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Google’ ‘Play Protect’ Ensures Maximum Security For Android Devices

LinuxSecurity.com: Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.

LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that Atril, the MATE document viewer, made insecure use of tar when opening tar comic book archives (CBT). Opening a malicious CBT archive could result in the execution of arbitrary code. This update disables the CBT format entirely.

Tor Public Bug Bounty Program: Earn Up To $4000
Watch a Homemade Robot Crack a Safe in Just 15 Minutes
Scammers demand Bitcoin in DDoS extortion scheme, deliver empty threats
Fake Adobe Flash Player App Infects Android Devices with Banking Malware

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LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Adobe Flash Player, the worst of which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

LinuxSecurity.com: New seamonkey packages are available for Slackware 14.2 and -current to fix security issues.

WikiLeaks Release Documents on How CIA Uses 5 Different Malware

LinuxSecurity.com: Update to upstream version 1.3.1.

LinuxSecurity.com: New upstream release: 2.4.5

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Trickbot Malware Now Targets US Banks
Something for the weekend? How about an Apple patch for BroadPwn?
Hit the road – with your insurer and lender keeping an eye on your driving
Twitter says it’s cracking down on the abuse – but is it?
Motivation Mystery Behind WannaCry, ExPetr
Your Old Phone Number Can Be Used To Hack Facebook Account
Watch out for the Android malware that snoops on your phone
ESET celebrates 30 years of innovation in IT security by giving away $30,000 to nonprofits

ESET are giving away a total of $30,000 in prize money to nonprofits to celebrate 30 years of continuous technological innovation in IT security. The post ESET celebrates 30 years of innovation in IT security by giving away $30,000 to nonprofits appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Global police swoop shutters Hansa and AlphaBay dark web markets
Best of Black Hat: 20 Epic Talks in 20 Years
Russian man who helped create notorious malware sentenced to 5 years

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The Cyber News Rundown brings you the latest happenings in cyber news weekly. Who am I? I’m Connor Madsen, a Webroot Threat Research Analyst, and a guy with a passion for all things security. Any more questions? Just ask. Malware Lurking in Game of Thrones Torrents Viewers hoping to catch an illegal copy of the […]

LinuxSecurity.com: Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.

LinuxSecurity.com: Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Beware: New Bank of America Phishing Scam Stealing Card Data

LinuxSecurity.com: Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.

LinuxSecurity.com: Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.

Remotely Controllable Hoverboards Latest Target of Hackers
Apple Patches BroadPwn Bug in iOS 10.3.3
News in brief: Street View goes out of this world; GoT fans warned on torrenting; Citadel man jailed

LinuxSecurity.com: This is an update fixing CVE-2017-6542.

LinuxSecurity.com: Expat could be made to hang if it received specially crafted input.

Dark Web’ AlphaBay and Hansa Marketplaces Seized by Feds

The world’s leading information security events, Black Hat USA and DEF CON, are happening next week in Las Vegas. In its 20th year, Black Hat will bring over 15,000 IT and security pros together to discuss the latest information security research, development and trends. Among these attendees, you will find academics, researchers, as well as […]

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Segway MiniPro patched to stop hackers hijacking remote control from hoverboard riders
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Stantinko: A massive adware campaign operating covertly since 2012

Since the beginning of 2017, ESET has been conducting an investigation into a complex threat mainly targeting Russia and Ukraine. Stantinko has stood out. The post Stantinko: A massive adware campaign operating covertly since 2012 appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Tor Project Opens Bounty Program To All Researchers
Citadel “mechanic” receives five year prison sentence

A Russian man has been sentenced to five years in prison for helping develop the Citadel malware, which was used to steal personal financial information. It cost more than $5 million in losses. The post Citadel “mechanic” receives five year prison sentence appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

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Privacy and The Digital World

LinuxSecurity.com: build experimental command line interface “kresc”

LinuxSecurity.com: New upstream release: 2.4.5

Mid-year review: Have our security trends for 2017 become reality?

We are halfway through the year and it is a good opportunity to analyze the extent to which the ideas we gathered in the Trends 2017: Security Held Ransom report have come true. The post Mid-year review: Have our security trends for 2017 become reality? appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Twitter users targeted by an army of 86,262 sex-starved bots
Zero-Day Exploit Surfaces that May Affect Millions of IoT Users
Let’s harden Internet crypto so quantum computers can’t crack it

LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that ruby-mixlib-archive, a Chef Software’s library used to handle various archive formats, was vulnerable to a directory traversal attack. This allowed attackers to overwrite arbitrary files by using a malicious tar archive containing “..” in its entries.

BSidesLV: What’s on the agenda in Las Vegas
Smashing Security #034: The pen is mightier than the password

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Publication of NukeBot trojan’s source code leads to new ‘operational’ samples

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

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