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Inside Incident Response: 6 Key Tips to Keep in Mind
Kelly Sheridan, Staff Editor, Dark Reading
Experts share the prime window for detecting intruders, when to contact law enforcement, and what they wish they did differently after a breach.
By Kelly Sheridan Staff Editor, Dark Reading, 3/22/2019
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Two Found Guilty in Online Dating, BEC Scheme
Dark Reading Staff, Quick Hits
Cybercriminals involved in the operation created fake online dating profiles and tricked victims into sending money to phony bank accounts.
By Dark Reading Staff , 3/22/2019
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Security Lessons from My Game Closet
Joshua Goldfarb, Co-founder & Chief Product Officer, IDRRA Commentary
In an era of popular video games like Fortnite and Minecraft, there is a lot to be learned about risk, luck, and strategy from some old-fashioned board games.
By Joshua Goldfarb Co-founder & Chief Product Officer, IDRRA , 3/22/2019
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FIN7 Cybercrime Gang Rises Again
Robert Lemos, Technology Journalist/Data ResearcherNews
The group now employs a new administrative interface for managing its campaigns, as well as documents that link to SQL databases for downloading its code.
By Robert Lemos Technology Journalist/Data Researcher, 3/21/2019
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Businesses Manage 9.7PB of Data but Struggle to Protect It
Kelly Sheridan, Staff Editor, Dark ReadingNews
What's more, their attempts to secure it may be putting information at risk, a new report finds.
By Kelly Sheridan Staff Editor, Dark Reading, 3/21/2019
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Facebook Employees for Years Could See Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text
Dark Reading Staff, Quick Hits
2,000 Facebook engineers or developers reportedly made some nine million internal queries for data elements with plain text passwords.
By Dark Reading Staff , 3/21/2019
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Hacker AI vs. Enterprise AI: A New Threat
Satish Abburi, Founder of Elysium AnalyticsCommentary
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are being weaponized using the same logic and functionality that legitimate organizations use.
By Satish Abburi Founder of Elysium Analytics, 3/21/2019
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SaaS Ecosystem Complexity Ratcheting Up Risk of Insider Threats
Ericka Chickowski, Contributing Writer, Dark ReadingNews
Even with common security platforms like CASBs, organizations struggle to deal with the volume of apps and accounts that interact with business-critical data.
By Ericka Chickowski Contributing Writer, Dark Reading, 3/21/2019
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Microsoft Brings Defender Security Tools to Mac
Kelly Sheridan, Staff Editor, Dark ReadingNews
Windows Defender becomes Microsoft Defender, and it's available in limited preview for Mac users.
By Kelly Sheridan Staff Editor, Dark Reading, 3/21/2019
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Police Federation of England and Wales Suffers Apparent Ransomware Attack
Dark Reading Staff, Quick Hits
National Cyber Security Centre and National Crime Agency investigate random attack that locked down the association's data and deleted backups.
By Dark Reading Staff , 3/21/2019
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What the Transition to Smart Cards Can Teach the US Healthcare Industry
Joram Borenstein & Rebecca Weintraub, General Manager of Microsoft's Cybersecurity Solutions Group & MD, Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical SchoolCommentary
Healthcare information security suffers from the inherent weakness of using passwords to guard information. Chip-based smart cards could change that.
By Joram Borenstein & Rebecca Weintraub General Manager of Microsoft's Cybersecurity Solutions Group & MD, Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School, 3/21/2019
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Researchers Seek Out Ways to Search IPv6 Space
Robert Lemos, Technology Journalist/Data ResearcherNews
Security researchers regularly search IPv4 address space looking for servers with ports exposing vulnerable software. With the massive number of IPv6 addresses, however, they have lost that ability. Can tricks and workarounds save the day?
By Robert Lemos Technology Journalist/Data Researcher, 3/20/2019
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BEC Scammer Pleads Guilty
Dark Reading Staff, Quick Hits
Business email compromise (BEC) operation resulted in $100 million in losses to a multinational technology company and a social media firm, according to the US Attorney's Office.
By Dark Reading Staff , 3/20/2019
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Google Photos Bug Let Criminals Query Friends, Location
Kelly Sheridan, Staff Editor, Dark ReadingNews
The vulnerability, now patched, let attackers query where, when, and with whom victims' photos were taken.
By Kelly Sheridan Staff Editor, Dark Reading, 3/20/2019
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The Insider Threat: It's More Common Than You Think
Raj Ananthanpillai, Chairman & CEO, EnderaCommentary
A new study shows why security teams must look holistically across cybersecurity, compliance, technology, and human resources to truly address the business effects of workforce risk.
By Raj Ananthanpillai Chairman & CEO, Endera, 3/20/2019
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Less Than 3% of Recycled Computing Devices Properly Wiped
Steve Zurier, Freelance WriterNews
Researchers find that companies that refurbish or accept old equipment as donations don't necessarily clean them of data as promised.
By Steve Zurier Freelance Writer, 3/20/2019
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'Critical' Denial-of-Service Bug Patched in Facebook Fizz
Dark Reading Staff, Quick Hits
Researchers report a now-patched DoS vulnerability in Facebook Fizz, its open source implementation of the TLS protocol.
By Dark Reading Staff , 3/20/2019
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TLS 1.3: A Good News/Bad News Scenario
Paula Musich, Research Director, Enterprise Management AssociatesCommentary
Stronger encryption standards are improving the privacy of data in motion, but enterprises will need to adapt their security architectures to maintain visibility into network traffic.
By Paula Musich Research Director, Enterprise Management Associates, 3/20/2019
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Microsoft Office Dominates Most Exploited List
Kelly Jackson Higgins, Executive Editor at Dark ReadingNews
Lone Android vulnerability among the top 10 software flaws most abused by cybercriminals.
By Kelly Jackson Higgins Executive Editor at Dark Reading, 3/19/2019
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DDoS Attack Size Drops 85% in Q4 2018
Kelly Sheridan, Staff Editor, Dark ReadingNews
The sharp decline follows an FBI takedown of so-called "booter," or DDoS-for-hire, websites in December 2018.
By Kelly Sheridan Staff Editor, Dark Reading, 3/19/2019
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PUBLISHED: 2019-03-23
hostapd before 2.6 does not prevent use of the low-quality PRNG that is reached by an os_random() function call.
CVE-2019-9947
PUBLISHED: 2019-03-23
An issue was discovered in urllib2 in Python 2.x through 2.7.16 and urllib in Python 3.x through 3.7.2. CRLF injection is possible if the attacker controls a url parameter, as demonstrated by the first argument to urllib.request.urlopen with \r\n (specifically in the query string or PATH_INFO) follo...
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PUBLISHED: 2019-03-23
urllib in Python 2.x through 2.7.16 supports the local_file: scheme, which makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass protection mechanisms that blacklist file: URIs, as demonstrated by triggering a urllib.urlopen('local_file:///etc/passwd') call.
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PUBLISHED: 2019-03-23
SoftNAS Cloud 4.2.0 and 4.2.1 allows remote command execution. The NGINX default configuration file has a check to verify the status of a user cookie. If not set, a user is redirected to the login page. An arbitrary value can be provided for this cookie to access the web interface without valid user...
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PUBLISHED: 2019-03-23
A sandbox information disclosure exists in Twig before 1.38.0 and 2.x before 2.7.0 because, under some circumstances, it is possible to call the __toString() method on an object even if not allowed by the security policy in place.
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