Cisco fixes critical flaw in its Secure Access Control System
Cisco has pushed out fixes for security vulnerabilities in a wide variety of its products, including two critical flaws in its Secure Access Control System (ACS) and its Prime …
IoT malware targeting zero-day vulnerabilities
Once it became evident that IoT devices can be relatively easily enslaved in botnets and that even their limited power can be used for a variety of nefarious purposes, it was …
PyCryptoMiner ropes Linux machines into Monero-mining botnet
A Linux-based botnet that has been flying under the radar has earned its master at least 158 Monero (currently valued around $63,000). The malware The botnet is based on a …
Meltdown and Spectre: Data theft hardware bugs affect most modern CPUs
In the wake of yesterday’s news and speculation about a serious design flaw in Intel processors, the security researchers involved in discovering the issue and the …
Upcoming patches for security flaw in Intel processors expected to slow down computers
Windows users whose PCs run on Intel processors can apparently expect their computers to slow down after next Tuesday. In fact, all computers using modern Intel chips – …
Are your connected devices searchable on the Internet?
Despite being a hub for technology talent, Berliners are leaving themselves wide open to cyberattack through poor security practices that are exposing millions of cyber …
Ubuntu 17.10 brings enhanced security and productivity for developers
Canonical released Ubuntu 17.10 featuring a new GNOME desktop on Wayland, and new versions of KDE, MATE and Budgie. On the cloud, 17.10 brings Kubernetes 1.8 for hyper-elastic …
Is your router sending out spam?
A Linux Trojan that has been infecting IoT devices for half a year and made them run a SOCKS proxy server has now acquired spam-sending capabilities. About Linux.ProxyM Doctor …
Billions of Bluetooth-enabled devices vulnerable to new airborne attacks
Eight zero-day vulnerabilities affecting the Android, Windows, Linux and iOS implementations of Bluetooth can be exploited by attackers to extract information from, execute …
Threat prevention for protecting production environments
Capsule8 launched the beta version of Capsule8 Protect, a threat prevention and response platform purpose-built for cloud-native environments. Organizations are rapidly …
Attackers are taking over NAS devices via SambaCry flaw
A Samba remote code execution flaw patched in May is being exploited to compromise IoT devices running on different architectures (MIPS, ARM, PowerPC, etc.), Trend Micro …
Open Security Controller: Security service orchestration for multi-cloud environments
The Linux Foundation launched the Open Security Controller project, an open source project focused on centralizing security services orchestration for multi-cloud …
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