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LinuxSecurity.com: Security Report Summary

Lines Around Cyber Threat Intelligence Sharing Blurring
News in brief: Norway deep-freezes data; firms ‘shelving GDPR plans’; Android overtakes Windows
Memory Corruption Mitigations Doing Their Job
Fake SEO Plugin Used In WordPress Malware Attacks
Russian-Speaking Turla Joins APT Elite
Power plant cyber threat: Lock up your ICSs and SCADAs
Facial recognition on Samsung’s new phone has already been cracked
AKBuilder, Microsoft Word Intruder exploiting Office RTF vulnerability
Microsoft Friday false positive: Bluber-A ballsup makes sysadmins blub
The right to privacy in the digital era

ESET’s Miguel Ángel Mendoza discusses the right to privacy in the digital era, which is an increasingly important issue. The post The right to privacy in the digital era appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Still using IIS 6.0? Stop right now – the latest zero-day won’t be patched
Telegram Update Allows Users to Make Secure, AI-Powered Voice Calls
Europe supplants US as biggest source of child abuse hubs
Twitter users hit out at confusing revamp of @ mentions
That sound you hear is Splunk leaking data

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan, Virus, Worm.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

New York Post’s App Hacked to Send “Heil Trump” Notification
McDonald’s Canada Hacked: Personal Data of 95,000 Jobseekers Stolen
Access Password protected WiFi hotspots for free with Instabridge App

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Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Anonymous hacks ISIS website; infecting users with malware
The free Nintendo Switch emulator you stumbled upon? Sorry, it’s a fake!
New Android ransomware proves why antivirus software are a joke
Using a VPN Sucks
EFF: Verizon will install spyware on all its Android phones
Verizon Rebuts Critics of Data-Collecting App
Good Guy Comcast: We’re not going to sell your data, trust us
Yee-hacked! Fired Texan sysadmin goes rogue, trashes boot business

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. Ransomware Exploits Safari Bug Apple fixed a flaw earlier this week that allowed scammers to exploit […]

Russian hacking goes far beyond 2016 pro-Trump effort
Data-Stealing Malware ‘Dimnie’ Targeting Developers on Github
US ATM fraud surges despite EMV
IDG Contributor Network: Biometrics can provide better data provenance
News in brief: jets in near miss with drones; Germany plans cyber-command; adult sites move to HTTPS
IXmaps Map reveals if your Internet traffic is being monitored by the NSA
Text message scam from the Motor Registry – how not to get stung
WikiLeaks exposes CIA anti-forensics tool that makes Uncle Sam seem fluent in enemy tongues
Threatpost News Wrap, March 31, 2017
Why you shouldn’t chip in to buy politicians’ browsing histories
Kremlin-linked hacker crew’s tactics exposed
Point-and-pwn tool for posers dumbs down ransomware spreading
Backup your (digital) life

In the digital age, data backup is essential. Find out how you can protect yourself ahead of World Backup Day, which falls on April Fool’s Day. The post Backup your (digital) life appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Not just a load of old COBOLers: systems are still running on old code
Senator: Russia used ‘thousands’ of internet trolls during US election
APT29 Domain Fronting With TOR
Someone is putting lots of work into hacking Github developers
Aviation-Related Phishing Campaigns Seeking Credentials
Android under siege from malware – here’s how to protect your phone
Want privacy? Congress says you’ll have to pay for it
Jenkins users can shore up software security with plugins

Don’t wait for a system failure, ransomware attack, or for your laptop to be stolen before you start thinking about backing up your data. Why back up? According to a 2016 study by Acronis, 1 in 3 people have suffered data loss and are willing to pay up to $500 or more to recover lost […]

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for chromium-browser is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact [More…]

Facebook, Google, etc: Yeah, yeah, we’ll work on the nasty stuff about bombs – but we ain’t doing no backdoors
Researchers steal data from shared cache of two cloud VMs
WONTFIX: No patch for Windows Server 2003 IIS critical bug – Microsoft
Minnesota, Illinois rebel over America’s ISP privacy massacre, mull fresh info protections
Blizzard’s World of Warcraft fans hit by phishing scam

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How to Keep Your Web Hosting Account Safe From Hackers
New Mirai Variant Carries Out 54-Hour DDoS Attacks
Is this a solution to Trump signing away your digital privacy? We give Invizbox Go a go
Millions of websites affected by unpatched flaw in Microsoft IIS 6 web server
Github Repository Owners Targeted by Data-Stealing Malware
NukeBot Banking Trojan Source Code Leaked Online by Author

LinuxSecurity.com: Security Report Summary

LinuxSecurity.com: Security Report Summary

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for curl is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which [More…]

LinuxSecurity.com: New mariadb packages are available for Slackware 14.2 and -current to fix security issues. [More Info…]

LinuxSecurity.com: Security Report Summary

News in brief: tech firms ‘must do more’ on terror; data breaches shoot up; gloom at toxic online spaces
Financial fraud losses in the UK last year topped £20m a day – report
UK cops arrest 20-year-old on suspicion of blackmail and hacking
Malware campaign targets open source developers on GitHub

Be on your guard if you’re a developer who uses GitHub – someone could be trying to infect your computer with malware. The post Malware campaign targets open source developers on GitHub appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

New Mirai variant launched a 54 hour DDoS attack on a US college
Security co-operation unlikely to change post Brexit, despite threats
LastPass has a secret major vulnerability – and, as yet, there’s no fix
Let’s Encrypt issues certs to ‘PayPal’ phishing sites: how to protect yourself
Carbon Paper: Peering into Turla’s second stage backdoor

The Turla espionage group has been targeting various institutions for many years. Recently, ESET found several new versions of Carbon. The post Carbon Paper: Peering into Turla’s second stage backdoor appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Open-source developers targeted in sophisticated malware attack
Falling in love online? Don’t get caught out by the Tinder scammers
Hacker Who Used Linux Botnet to Send Millions of Spam Emails Pleads Guilty
Five scams that won’t make you laugh on April Fool’s Day
VMware patches critical virtual machine escape flaws
Trump extends Obama executive order on cyberattacks
More fun in the sandbox: Experts praise security improvements to Edge
Industry Braces for Repeal of ISP Privacy Rules
Smashing Security #014: Protecting webmail
Encryp-xit: Europe will go all in for crypto backdoors in June
How to leak data from an air-gapped PC – using, er, a humble scanner
Kremlin-backed APT28 doesn’t even bother hiding its attacks, says Finnish secret police
Hey FCC, when you’re not busy screwing our privacy, how about those SS7 cell network security flaws, huh?
Recruiters considered really harmful: Devs on GitHub hit with booby-trapped fake job emails

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

The scam that knows your name and home address – here’s what to do
Bloke is paid to scour hashtags for threats, spots civil rights boss’s tweets, gets fired, sues