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Peter Newton, Senior Director of Product Marketing at FortinetCommentary
Nearly 60% of surveyed organizations using SCADA or ICS reported they experienced a breach in those systems in the last year. Here are four tips for making these systems safer.
By Peter Newton Senior Director of Product Marketing at Fortinet, 7/17/2018
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7 Nigerians Indicted for Fraud Operation on Dating Sites
Dark Reading Staff, Quick Hits
Con artists have been charged with operating a scheme that cost users of American dating websites more than $1.5 million.
By Dark Reading Staff , 7/17/2018
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Russian National Vulnerability Database Operation Raises Suspicions
Jai Vijayan, Freelance writerNews
Recorded Future says Russia's Federal Service for Technical and Export Control has ability to find, weaponize vulnerabilities under cover of doing technology inspections.
By Jai Vijayan Freelance writer, 7/16/2018
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Less Than Half of Cyberattacks Detected via Antivirus: SANS
Kelly Sheridan, Staff Editor, Dark ReadingNews
Companies are buying next-gen antivirus and fileless attack detection tools but few have the resources to use them, researchers report.
By Kelly Sheridan Staff Editor, Dark Reading, 7/16/2018
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Trump Dismisses Russian Interference Indictments in Presser with Putin
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Russian President Vladamir Putin 'just said it's not Russia,' US President Trump said.
By Dark Reading Staff , 7/16/2018
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10 Ways to Protect Protocols That Aren't DNS
Curtis Franklin Jr., Senior Editor at Dark Reading
Here's how to safeguard three other network foundation protocols so they don't become weapons or critical vulnerabilities.
By Curtis Franklin Jr. Senior Editor at Dark Reading, 7/16/2018
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India Telecom Regulator: Users Have Primary Data Rights
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Organizations 'should be restrained from using metadata to identify individual users,' says the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.
By Dark Reading Staff , 7/16/2018
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Time to Yank Cybercrime into the Light
Marc Wilczek, Digital Strategist & CIO AdvisorCommentary
Too many organizations are still operating blindfolded, research finds.
By Marc Wilczek Digital Strategist & CIO Advisor, 7/16/2018
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Mueller Probe Yields Hacking Indictments for 12 Russian Military Officers
Kelly Jackson Higgins, Executive Editor at Dark ReadingNews
GRU hackers used bitcoin to fund US computer network infrastructure supporting and hiding the operation.
By Kelly Jackson Higgins Executive Editor at Dark Reading, 7/13/2018
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GandCrab Ransomware Continues to Evolve But Can't Spread Via SMB Shares Yet
Jai Vijayan, Freelance writerNews
Recent fears that this year's most prolific ransomware threat has acquired new WannaCry-like propagation capabilities appear unfounded at the moment.
By Jai Vijayan Freelance writer, 7/13/2018
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8 Big Processor Vulnerabilities in 2018
Ericka Chickowski, Contributing Writer, Dark Reading
Security researchers have been working in overdrive examining processors for issues — and they haven't come up empty-handed.
By Ericka Chickowski Contributing Writer, Dark Reading, 7/13/2018
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Congressional Report Cites States Most Vulnerable to Election Hacking
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A new report details issues with 18 states along with suggestions on what can be done.
By Dark Reading Staff , 7/13/2018
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FBI: Email Account Compromise Losses Reach $12B
Dark Reading Staff, Quick Hits
There were more than 78K business email account (BEC) and email account compromise (EAC) scam incidents worldwide between October 2013 and May 2018.
By Dark Reading Staff , 7/13/2018
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How to Structure an Enterprise-Wide Threat Intelligence Strategy
Tom Badders, Senior Product Manager, Secure Mobility, at Telos CorporationCommentary
To keep an organization safe, you must think about the entire IT ecosystem.
By Tom Badders Senior Product Manager, Secure Mobility, at Telos Corporation, 7/13/2018
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SOCs Use Automation to Compensate for Training, Technology Issues
Curtis Franklin Jr., Senior Editor at Dark ReadingNews
Executives and front-line SOC teams see human and technology issues in much different ways, according to two new reports.
By Curtis Franklin Jr. Senior Editor at Dark Reading, 7/13/2018
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WordPress Sites Targeted in World Cup-Themed Spam Scam
Jai Vijayan, Freelance writerNews
Spammers using a 'spray & pray' approach to post comments on WordPress powered blogs, forums, says Imperva.
By Jai Vijayan Freelance writer, 7/12/2018
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What's Cooking With Caleb Sima
Kelly Jackson Higgins, Executive Editor at Dark ReadingNews
Security Pro File: Web app security pioneer dishes on his teenage security career, his love of electric scooters, Ace Ventura – and a new baby food business venture with his wife and famed chef, Kathy Fang.
By Kelly Jackson Higgins Executive Editor at Dark Reading, 7/12/2018
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Lessons from My Strange Journey into InfoSec
Lysa Myers, Security Researcher, ESETCommentary
Establishing an entrée into the security world can be a maddeningly slow process. For those of us already here, it can be an opportunity to help others.
By Lysa Myers Security Researcher, ESET, 7/12/2018
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ICS Security: 'The Enemy Is in the Wire'
Wayne Lloyd, Federal CTO at RedSealCommentary
Threats to industrial control systems are real and frightening. The government is taking steps to keep us safer in the future, but there are near-term steps you can take right now.
By Wayne Lloyd Federal CTO at RedSeal, 7/12/2018
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Timehop Releases New Details About July 4 Breach
Dark Reading Staff, Quick Hits
Additional information includes PII affected and the authentication issue that led to the breach.
By Dark Reading Staff , 7/12/2018
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CVE-2018-6681
PUBLISHED: 2018-07-17
Abuse of Functionality vulnerability in the web interface in McAfee Network Security Management (NSM) 9.1.7.11 and earlier allows authenticated users to allow arbitrary HTML code to be reflected in the response web page via appliance web interface.
CVE-2018-13864
PUBLISHED: 2018-07-17
A directory traversal vulnerability has been found in the Assets controller in Play Framework 2.6.12 through 2.6.15 (fixed in 2.6.16) when running on Windows. It allows a remote attacker to download arbitrary files from the target server via specially crafted HTTP requests.
CVE-2018-14338
PUBLISHED: 2018-07-17
samples/geotag.cpp in the example code of Exiv2 0.26 misuses the realpath function on POSIX platforms (other than Apple platforms) where glibc is not used, possibly leading to a buffer overflow.
CVE-2018-14337
PUBLISHED: 2018-07-17
The CHECK macro in mrbgems/mruby-sprintf/src/sprintf.c in mruby 1.4.1 contains a signed integer overflow, possibly leading to out-of-bounds memory access because the mrb_str_resize function in string.c does not check for a negative length.
CVE-2018-14329
PUBLISHED: 2018-07-17
In HTSlib 1.8, a race condition in cram/cram_io.c might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.
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