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Content tagged with Authentication posted in December 2016
Macau Resident Held For Hacking, Insider Trading Charges In US
Quick Hits  |  12/28/2016  | 
Iat Hong and two others allegedly breached computers of major US law firms and stole confidential exchange on M&A transactions.
Network Security: An Ounce Of Prevention Is Worth A Pound Of Reaction
Commentary  |  12/22/2016  | 
For humans ailments, prevention might begin with an allergist. In security, it's the network engineer.
Financial Data Worth Millions Unwittingly Exposed In Ameriprise Accounts
Quick Hits  |  12/19/2016  | 
Leak of bank account and financial planning details emanated from a financial advisor's unsecured Internet-connected backup drive at home.
Amit Yoran Leaves Dell RSA To Join Tenable As New CEO
News  |  12/15/2016  | 
Yoran says recent Dell acquisition of RSA parent company EMC did 'not really' impact his decision to leave.
8 Most Hackable Holiday Gifts, 2016 Edition
Slideshows  |  12/14/2016  | 
You better watch out! Otherwise, you may be giving the gift of malware or unauthorized access to networks and devices.
The Internet Of Things: When Bigger Is Not Better
Commentary  |  12/13/2016  | 
What happens when 10,000 companies add programmability and connectivity to their products, and we increase the Internet’s attack surface by a million times or more?
Pay Ransom Or Infect Others!
Quick Hits  |  12/12/2016  | 
Still under development, new ransomware will ask victims to free their files by paying 1 bitcoin or by infecting two others.
How Retailers Can Fight Holiday Season Hackers
Slideshows  |  12/8/2016  | 
Experts offer tips for locking down retailers’ point-of-sale systems for the busy holiday shopping season.
Researchers Find Backdoors, Bugs In Sony, White Box IP Cameras
News  |  12/7/2016  | 
New vulnerabilities discovered by SEC Consult and Cybereason highight increasing IoT threat to enterprises.
Biometric Technology Is Not A Cure-All For Password Woes
Commentary  |  12/7/2016  | 
No single authentication token is infallible. The only real solution is multifactor authentication.
Dark Web Vendor Gets 50 Months Jail For ID Theft
Quick Hits  |  12/2/2016  | 
Minnesota resident Aaron Glende aka IcyEagle caught selling stolen bank details on AlphaBay market.
DMARC Continues To Confound Users, Report Says
News  |  12/1/2016  | 
Almost three-quarters of those who deploy email authentication standard fail to get its full benefits, ValiMail says.


Want Your Daughter to Succeed in Cyber? Call Her John
John De Santis, CEO, HyTrust,  5/16/2018
Don't Roll the Dice When Prioritizing Vulnerability Fixes
Ericka Chickowski, Contributing Writer, Dark Reading,  5/15/2018
New Mexico Man Sentenced on DDoS, Gun Charges
Dark Reading Staff 5/18/2018
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PUBLISHED: 2018-05-22
The DrugDealer function of a smart contract implementation for Ether Cartel, an Ethereum game, allows attackers to take over the contract's ownership, aka ceoAnyone. After that, all the digital assets (including Ether balance and tokens) might be manipulated by the attackers, as exploited in the wil...
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PUBLISHED: 2018-05-22
jpeg_size in pdfgen.c in PDFGen before 2018-04-09 has a heap-based buffer over-read.
CVE-2018-11364
PUBLISHED: 2018-05-22
sav_parse_machine_integer_info_record in spss/readstat_sav_read.c in libreadstat.a in ReadStat 0.1.1 has a memory leak related to an iconv_open call.
CVE-2018-11365
PUBLISHED: 2018-05-22
sas/readstat_sas7bcat_read.c in libreadstat.a in ReadStat 0.1.1 has an infinite loop.
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PUBLISHED: 2018-05-22
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