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With one month of hindsight, and a lot of research, under the industry’s belt, analysts are still in the process of building a complete picture of the WannaCry ransomware attack that took the world by storm, but some points are firmed up. Tom Levasseur, CGI’s vulnerability assessment and penetration specialist, gave the attendees at SC […]

Officials from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand will discuss next month plans to force tech companies to break encryption on their products. The so-called Five Eyes nations have a long-standing agreement to gather and share intelligence from across the globe. They will meet in Canada with a focus on

Adobe fixed 21 vulnerabilities across four products today, releasing patches for Flash, Shockwave Player, Captivate, and Adobe Digital Editions. Most of the vulnerabilities, 15 of the 21, are marked critical by the company because they could lead to code execution. The updates came in the form of four security bulletins Tuesday morning as part of

Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday update today included a massive 95 fixes that tackle vulnerabilities in Windows, Office, Skype, Internet Explorer and its Edge browser. Twenty-seven of Microsoft’s patches fix remote code execution issues, allowing attackers to remotely take control of a victim’s PC. Eighteen patches are rated critical by Microsoft, 76 important and one is rated moderate.

Fearing destructive attacks precipitated by the availability of the nation-state exploits in the wild that spawned the WannaCry outbreak, Microsoft today announced that its Patch Tuesday updates would include fixes for older versions of Windows, including XP. The move is unusual and mimics a similar one made in the hours following WannaCry’s appearance on May

Federal authorities extradited a Latvian man from Poland to charge him in a “scareware” and hacking criminal case, which targeted readers of the Minneapolis Star Tribune website, the Department of Justice announced this week. Peteris Sahurovs, a 28-year-old man who at one time was No. 5 on the FBI’s Most Wanted List for cybercriminals, allegedly

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Pirates have ramped up the game with the release of never-before-seen UHD Blu-Ray video which, only a few weeks ago, was considered out-of-bounds due to strong encryption. As reported by TorrentFreak, three Ultra HD Blu-Ray copies of popular movies have recently been released on pirate websites. While it is common for camera-based (CAM), HD, and

FIN7, closely associated with the notorious Carbanak group, is behind a targeted phishing campaign singling out restaurants with fileless malware that is difficult to detect. The recent campaign incorporates, “never before seen evasive techniques that allow (malware) to bypass most security solutions,” wrote researchers at Morphisec Lab in a report release on Friday. Read more

A system which is air-gapped is generally considered safe from intrusion as there are few network tunnels or avenues for hackers to exploit. After all, if you can’t connect, you can’t steal or tamper with air-gapped devices. However, this idea has once again been smashed by researchers from Israel’s Ben Gurion University, who have demonstrated