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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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FBI Offers $3 Million Reward For Info On Whereabouts Of GameoverZeus Botnet Operator
Dark Reading Staff, Quick Hits
Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev, who faces charges for his alleged role as an administrator of the GameOver Zeus botnet, is at large in Russia.
By Dark Reading Staff , 2/24/2015
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Mobile Apps Remain Vulnerable For Months
Thomas Claburn, Editor-at-LargeNews
Developers are failing to respond quickly to reports of security flaws, Trojans are infecting corporate devices at an alarming rate, and even mundane data about your device's power consumption could threaten your privacy.
By Thomas Claburn Editor-at-Large, 2/24/2015
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7 Things You Should Know About Secure Payment Technology
Sara Peters, Senior Editor at Dark Reading
Despite the existence of EMV and Apple Pay, we're a long way from true payment security, especially in the US.
By Sara Peters Senior Editor at Dark Reading, 2/24/2015
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Cybercrime, Cyber Espionage Tactics Converge
Kelly Jackson Higgins, Executive Editor at Dark ReadingNews
Real-world cyberattack investigations by incident response firm Mandiant highlight how hackers are adapting to better achieve their goals.
By Kelly Jackson Higgins Executive Editor at Dark Reading, 2/24/2015
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From Hacking Systems To Hacking People
Larry Ponemon, Chairman & Founder, Ponemon InstituteCommentary
New low-tech attack methods like ‘visual hacking’ demand an information security environment that values data privacy and a self-policing culture.
By Larry Ponemon Chairman & Founder, Ponemon Institute, 2/24/2015
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DOJ R&D Agency Awards Grants For Speedier Digital Forensics
Kelly Jackson Higgins, Executive Editor at Dark ReadingNews
The US Department of Justice's National Institute of Justice is funding new incident response technology to assist law enforcement.
By Kelly Jackson Higgins Executive Editor at Dark Reading, 2/23/2015
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Blackhat, The Movie: Good, Bad & Ridiculous
Jeff Schmidt, Founder & CEO of JAS Global Advisors LLCCommentary
It didn’t take home an Oscar, but in some instances Blackhat was right on point. Still, a white-hat hacker with the skills to take out armed opponents?
By Jeff Schmidt Founder & CEO of JAS Global Advisors LLC, 2/23/2015
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NSA, GCHQ Theft Of SIM Crypto Keys Raises Fresh Security Concerns
Jai Vijayan, Freelance writerNews
Pilfered SIM card encryption keys also could allow the spy agencies to deploy malicious Java applets or to send rogue SMS messages from fake cell towers, experts say.
By Jai Vijayan Freelance writer, 2/20/2015
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Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the live preview in the Panopoly Magic module before 7.x-1.17 for Drupal allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a pane title.

CVE-2015-2087
Published: 2015-02-26
Unrestricted file upload vulnerability in the Avatar Uploader module before 6.x-1.3 for Drupal allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary PHP code by uploading a file with a PHP extension, then accessing it via unspecified vectors.

CVE-2015-2088
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Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in unspecified administration pages in the Term Queue module before 6.x-1.1 for Drupal allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unknown vectors.

CVE-2015-2089
Published: 2015-02-26
Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the CrossSlide jQuery (crossslide-jquery-plugin-for-wordpress) plugin 2.0.5 for WordPress allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that (1) change plugin settings or conduct cross-site scripting (...

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SQL injection vulnerability in the ajax_survey function in settings.php in the WordPress Survey and Poll plugin 1.1.7 for Wordpress allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the survey_id parameter in an ajax_survey action to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php.

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