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What You Need To Know About Nation-State Hacked Hard Drives
Kelly Jackson Higgins, Executive Editor at Dark ReadingNews
The nation-state Equation Group compromise of most popular hard drives won't be a widespread threat, but future disk security -- and forensic integrity -- remain unclear.
By Kelly Jackson Higgins Executive Editor at Dark Reading, 3/2/2015
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Uber Takes Over 5 Months To Issue Breach Notification
Dark Reading Staff, Quick Hits
50,000 Uber drives just being told now that their names and license numbers were exposed.
By Dark Reading Staff , 3/2/2015
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5 Signs That The Firewall's Not Dead Yet
Ericka Chickowski, Contributing Writer, Dark ReadingNews
Demise of firewall is a long way off, according to recent survey results.
By Ericka Chickowski Contributing Writer, Dark Reading, 3/2/2015
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No Silver Bullets for Security
Lorie Wigle, Vice President, General Manager IOT Security Solutions, Intel Security Group
A quick-fix security solution for cyberphysical systems doesn’t exist.
By Lorie Wigle Vice President, General Manager IOT Security Solutions, Intel Security Group, 3/2/2015
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Why Security Awareness Alone Won’t Stop Hackers
Saryu Nayyar, CEO, GuruculCommentary
End-user training is a noble pursuit but it’s no defense against “low and slow” attacks that take months and years to carry out.
By Saryu Nayyar CEO, Gurucul, 3/2/2015
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Dark Reading Offers Cyber Security Crash Course At Interop 2015
Tim Wilson, Editor in Chief, Dark ReadingCommentary
New, one-day event offers a way for IT pros to quickly catch up with the latest threats and defenses in information security.
By Tim Wilson Editor in Chief, Dark Reading, 3/2/2015
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Mobile Security By The Numbers
Ericka Chickowski, Contributing Writer, Dark Reading
Rounding up the latest research on mobile malware and security practices.
By Ericka Chickowski , 3/2/2015
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Cyber Intelligence: Defining What You Know
Jason Polancich, Founder & Chief Architect, SurfWatchLabsCommentary
Too often management settles for security data about things that are assumed rather than things you can prove or that you know are definitely wrong.
By Jason Polancich Founder & Chief Architect, SurfWatchLabs, 2/27/2015
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Hits Keep On Coming For Both SSL & Its Abusers
Dark Reading Staff, Quick Hits
Hacktivist group Lizard Squad punishes Lenovo with a DNS hijack. Will Comodo be next?
By Dark Reading Staff , 2/26/2015
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'Shadow' Cloud Services Rampant In Government Networks
Jai Vijayan, Freelance writerNews
Survey finds public sector employees use unmanaged cloud services just as much as private employees.
By Jai Vijayan Freelance writer, 2/26/2015
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How to Strengthen Enterprise Defenses against Ransomware
Alexandra Gheorghe, Security Specialist, Bitdefender
Eight essential ways that companies can enforce their borders.
By Alexandra Gheorghe Security Specialist, Bitdefender, 2/26/2015
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How To Reduce Spam & Phishing With DMARC
Daniel Ingevaldson, CTO, Easy SolutionsCommentary
Providers of more than 3 billion email boxes have taken up a new Internet protocol to help put trust back into electronic messaging.
By Daniel Ingevaldson CTO, Easy Solutions, 2/26/2015
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5 New Vulnerabilities Uncovered In SAP
Ericka Chickowski, Contributing Writer, Dark ReadingNews
Onapsis researchers find bugs in SAP BusinessObjects and SAP HANA.
By Ericka Chickowski Contributing Writer, Dark Reading, 2/26/2015
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Millions Of Non-Anthem Customers Also Hit By Anthem Breach
Dark Reading Staff, Quick Hits
Blue Cross Blue Shield customers -- as many as 8.8 to 18.8 million of them -- might have also had their data compromised.
By Dark Reading Staff , 2/25/2015
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Ramnit Botnet Disrupted By International Public-Private Collaboration
Sara Peters, Senior Editor at Dark ReadingNews
Europol leads the effort to bring down the bank credential-stealing botnet that infected 3.2 million computers across the globe.
By Sara Peters Senior Editor at Dark Reading, 2/25/2015
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Gemalto: NSA, GCHQ May Have Been Behind Breaches It Suffered In 2010 And 2011
Kelly Jackson Higgins, Executive Editor at Dark ReadingNews
But the 'sophisticated' attacks hit only Gemalto office networks--not 'massive theft' of SIM crypto keys, vendor says, and such an attack, if waged, would only affect 2G networks, not 3G or 4G.
By Kelly Jackson Higgins Executive Editor at Dark Reading, 2/25/2015
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Five Easiest Ways to Get Hacked – Part 2
Carric Dooley, WW VP of Foundstone Services, Intel Security
Continuing a conversation with principal security consultant Amit Bagree
By Carric Dooley WW VP of Foundstone Services, Intel Security, 2/25/2015
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Customers Aren’t the Only Victims: 5 Stages Of Data Breach Grief
Ricky Link, Managing Director, Coalfire Systems, Southwest RegionCommentary
What can we learn from organizations that have experienced a data beach? For one thing, infosec teams on the front lines of cyber security are also victims.
By Ricky Link Managing Director, Coalfire Systems, Southwest Region, 2/25/2015
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5 Ways To Prepare For IoT Security Risks
Jai Vijayan, Freelance writerNews
As the Internet of Things begins to take shape, IT organizations must prepare for change.
By Jai Vijayan Freelance writer, 2/24/2015
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Medical Identity Theft Costs Victims $13,450 Apiece
Sara Peters, Senior Editor at Dark ReadingNews
New study shows not only is medical identity fraud costly for individuals, it's happening a lot more often.
By Sara Peters Senior Editor at Dark Reading, 2/24/2015
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Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in HP XP P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Software Online Help, as used in HP Device Manager 6.x through 8.x before 8.1.2-00, HP XP P9000 Tiered Storage Manager 6.x through 8.x before 8.1.2-00, HP XP P9000 Replication Manager 6.x and 7.x before ...

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The BestWebSoft Captcha plugin before 4.0.7 for WordPress allows remote attackers to bypass the CAPTCHA protection mechanism and obtain administrative access via unspecified vectors.

CVE-2014-9683
Published: 2015-03-03
Off-by-one error in the ecryptfs_decode_from_filename function in fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c in the eCryptfs subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.18.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and system crash) or possibly gain privileges via a crafted filename.

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