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Michaels Data Breach Response: 7 Facts
Mathew J. Schwartz, News
Could the retailer have done more to spot the eight-month intrusion in the first place?
By Mathew J. Schwartz , 4/22/2014
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Bots Attack US Mainly During Dinnertime
Kelly Jackson Higgins, Senior Editor, Dark ReadingQuick Hits
Most bot-infected machines hail from the US and wage attacks there between 6 and 9 p.m. Eastern Time, new report finds.
By Kelly Jackson Higgins Senior Editor, Dark Reading, 4/22/2014
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7 Tips To Improve 'Signal-to-Noise' In The SOC
Joshua Goldfarb, CSO, nPulse TechnologiesCommentary
When security analysts are desensitized to alerts because of sheer volume, they miss the true positives that can prevent a large-scale data breach. Here's how to up your game.
By Joshua Goldfarb CSO, nPulse Technologies, 4/22/2014
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Free Scanning Tool Promises To Find Heartbleed On Any Device
Tim Wilson, Editor in Chief, Dark ReadingQuick Hits
CrowdStrike says tool identifies the flaw on web servers, VPNs, servers, routers, printers, and phones.
By Tim Wilson Editor in Chief, Dark Reading, 4/22/2014
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Stolen Passwords Used In Most Data Breaches
Kelly Jackson Higgins, Senior Editor, Dark ReadingNews
New Verizon 2014 Data Breach Investigations Report identifies nine types of attack patterns that accounted for 93 percent of security incidents in the past decade.
By Kelly Jackson Higgins Senior Editor, Dark Reading, 4/22/2014
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FAQ: Understanding The True Price of Encryption
Sol Cates, CSO, VormetricCommentary
In the wake of recent events like Heartbleed, the search for cost-effective, easy, and scalable encryption solutions has never been more important.
By Sol Cates CSO, Vormetric, 4/21/2014
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Heartbleed Attack Targeted Enterprise VPN
Mathew J. Schwartz, News
Attack spotted using the OpenSSL Heartbleed bug to steal session tokens and bypass two-factor authentication.
By Mathew J. Schwartz , 4/21/2014
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Michaels Retail Chain Reveals Details Of Breach: Nearly 3M Affected
Tim Wilson, Editor in Chief, Dark ReadingQuick Hits
Attack on point-of-sale systems went on for more than six months, officials say.
By Tim Wilson Editor in Chief, Dark Reading, 4/18/2014
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Poll: Dark Reading Community Acts On Heartbleed
Marilyn Cohodas, Community Editor, Dark ReadingCommentary
Roughly 60 percent of respondents to our flash poll have installed the Heartbeat fix or are in the process of doing so.
By Marilyn Cohodas Community Editor, Dark Reading, 4/18/2014
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Heartbleed: A Password Manager Reality Check
Mathew J. Schwartz, News
Is a password manager an effective defense against vulnerabilities like Heartbleed, or just another way to lose data to hackers?
By Mathew J. Schwartz , 4/18/2014
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Phishers Recruit Home PCs
Brian Prince, Contributing Writer, Dark ReadingNews
Residential broadband machines spotted hosting phishing attacks.
By Brian Prince Contributing Writer, Dark Reading, 4/18/2014
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SQL Injection Cleanup Takes Two Months or More
Kelly Jackson Higgins, Senior Editor, Dark ReadingQuick Hits
A new report highlights the prevalence and persistence of SQL injection attacks.
By Kelly Jackson Higgins Senior Editor, Dark Reading, 4/17/2014
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Satellite Communications Wide Open To Hackers
Kelly Jackson Higgins, Senior Editor, Dark ReadingNews
Satellite terminals widely used in transportation, military, and industrial plants contain backdoors, hardcoded credentials, weak encryption algorithms, and other design flaws, a new report says.
By Kelly Jackson Higgins Senior Editor, Dark Reading, 4/17/2014
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11 Heartbleed Facts: Vulnerability Discovery, Mitigation Continue
Mathew J. Schwartz, News
Millions of websites, applications from Cisco and VMware, Google Play apps, as well as millions of Android devices are vulnerable -- and the list keeps growing.
By Mathew J. Schwartz , 4/17/2014
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Microsoft Delays Enterprise Windows 8.1 Support Doomsday
Mathew J. Schwartz, News
Responding to criticism, Microsoft gives businesses until August to adopt Windows 8.1 Update and continue receiving security updates. Consumers still face May 13 deadline.
By Mathew J. Schwartz , 4/17/2014
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How A Little Obscurity Can Bolster Security
Corey Nachreiner, Director, Security Strategy & Research, WatchGuard TechnologiesCommentary
Most security professionals deride the idea of "security by obscurity." Is it time to re-evaluate the conventional wisdom?
By Corey Nachreiner Director, Security Strategy & Research, WatchGuard Technologies, 4/17/2014
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Did A Faulty Memory Feature Lead To Heartbleed?
Kelly Jackson Higgins, Senior Editor, Dark ReadingNews
Debate arises over an older memory allocation feature in OpenSSL, and the OpenBSD community starts to tear down and revise the crypto software for its own use.
By Kelly Jackson Higgins Senior Editor, Dark Reading, 4/16/2014
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The Real Wakeup Call From Heartbleed
Jeff Williams, CTO, Contrast SecurityCommentary
There's nothing special about Heartbleed. It’s another flaw in a popular library that exposed a lot of servers to attack. The danger lies in the way software libraries are built and whether they can be trusted.
By Jeff Williams CTO, Contrast Security, 4/16/2014
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Smartphone Kill Switches Coming, But Critics Cry Foul
Thomas Claburn, Editor-at-LargeCommentary
Smartphone makers and carriers agree to add optional kill switches to smartphones, but law enforcement officials say the anti-theft effort doesn't go far enough.
By Thomas Claburn Editor-at-Large, 4/16/2014
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Mobility: Who Bears The Brunt Of Data Security & Privacy
Grayson Milbourne, Director, Security Intelligence, WebrootCommentary
OS manufacturers, app developers, and consumers all have a role to play in smartphone data security. But not everyone is equally responsible.
By Grayson Milbourne Director, Security Intelligence, Webroot, 4/16/2014
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CVE-2013-1421
Published: 2014-04-22
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Craig Knudsen WebCalendar before 1.2.5, 1.2.6, and other versions before 1.2.7 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the Category Name field to category.php.

CVE-2013-2105
Published: 2014-04-22
The Show In Browser (show_in_browser) gem 0.0.3 for Ruby allows local users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a symlink attack on /tmp/browser.html.

CVE-2013-2187
Published: 2014-04-22
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Apache Archiva 1.2 through 1.2.2 and 1.3 before 1.3.8 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified parameters, related to the home page.

CVE-2013-4116
Published: 2014-04-22
lib/npm.js in Node Packaged Modules (npm) before 1.3.3 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files with predictable names that are created when unpacking archives.

CVE-2013-4472
Published: 2014-04-22
The openTempFile function in goo/gfile.cc in Xpdf and Poppler 0.24.3 and earlier, when running on a system other than Unix, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files with predictable names.

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