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Google releases details, PoC exploit code for IE, Edge flaw

As we’re impatiently waiting for Microsoft to patch vulnerabilities that were scheduled to be fixed in February, Google has released details about a serious …

MySQL
Cyber extortionists hold MySQL databases for ransom

Ransomware has become cyber crooks’ favorite attack methodology for hitting businesses, but not all cyber extortion attempts are effected with this particular type of …

Europe
The failure of EU’s regulation on cyber-surveillance tech exports

When in April 2016 the Italian Ministry of Economical Progress revoked Hacking Team’s licence to export their Galileo remote control software outside of the EU, it …

data
Not all threat intelligence is created equal

In this podcast recorded at RSA Conference 2017, John Czupak, CEO at ThreatQuotient, and Jonathan Couch, Senior VP of Strategy at ThreatQuotient, talk about what’s important …

connections
How IoT initiatives impact the IT infrastructure

Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure spending is making inroads into enterprise IT budgets across a diverse set of industry verticals. Improved business offerings, IoT data …

Week in review: Mac ransomware, women in infosec, and the death of SHA-1

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles and podcasts: The dangers that come with buying pre-owned IoT devices When you buy a …

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Which countermeasures improve security and which are a waste of money?

If you want to know about which cyber defenses are most effective and which are a waste of money and resources, ask a hacker. And that’s just what Nuix researchers did. …

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New infosec products of the week​: February 24, 2017

Security solutions for IoT automotive telematics Building a secure automotive telematics platform to achieve a profitable business model for automakers and ecosystem partners …

connected
Biggest limiting factors to universal adoption of connected devices

After surveying 250 respondents at CES 2017, the Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) concluded that more than 60 percent of respondents consider standardization and …

structure
New attack sounds death knell for widely used SHA-1 crypto hash function

SHA-1 is definitely, provenly dead, as a group of researchers from CWI Institute in Amsterdam and Google have demonstrated the first practical technique for generating a …

Deutsche Telekom
Suspected Deutsche Telekom router hacker arrested

A 29-year-old British national, believed to be the mastermind behind last November’s unsuccessful hijacking attempt of Deutsche Telekom users’ routers, was …

employee
Removing admin rights mitigates most critical Microsoft vulnerabilities

Avecto has analyzed the security bulletins Microsoft released in the past year, and came to an important conclusion: an overwhelming majority of all the critical Microsoft …

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