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Click2Mail Suffers Data Breach
Dark Reading Staff, Quick Hits
Mail provider discovered customer data being used in spam messages.
By Dark Reading Staff , 10/11/2019
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7 SMB Security Tips That Will Keep Your Company Safe
Steve Zurier, Contributing Writer
With National Cybersecurity Awareness Month as a backdrop, industry leaders weigh in on how SMBs can more effectively protect themselves from cyberattacks.
By Steve Zurier Contributing Writer, 10/11/2019
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FBI: Phishing Can Defeat Two-Factor Authentication
Dark Reading Staff, Quick Hits
A recent Privacy Industry Notification points to two new hacker tools that can turn a victim's browser into a credential-stealing zombie.
By Dark Reading Staff , 10/11/2019
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A Murderers' Row of Poisoning Attacks
Curtis Franklin Jr., Senior Editor at Dark Reading
Poisoning can be used against network infrastructure and applications. Understanding how DNS cache poisoning, machine learning model poisoning and other attacks work can help you prepare the proper antidote.
By Curtis Franklin Jr. Senior Editor at Dark Reading, 10/11/2019
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Creative Wi-Fi Passwords
Beyond the Edge, Dark Reading
Let's see a hacker figure out one of these.
By Beyond the Edge Dark Reading, 10/11/2019
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Close the Gap Between Cyber-Risk and Business Risk
Brian Contos, CISO & VP of Techology Innovation at VerodinCommentary
Four steps outlining how security teams can better understand their company's cyber-risk and demonstrate to company leadership what's being done to mitigate the resulting business risk.
By By Brian Contos, CISO, Verodin , 10/11/2019
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iTunes Zero-Day Exploited to Deliver BitPaymer
Kelly Sheridan, Staff Editor, Dark ReadingNews
The ransomware operators targeted an "unquoted path" vulnerability in iTunes for Windows to evade detection and install BitPaymer.
By Kelly Sheridan Staff Editor, Dark Reading, 10/10/2019
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AppSec 'Spaghetti on the Wall' Tool Strategy Undermining Security
Jai Vijayan, Contributing WriterNews
At many organizations, the attitude to securing software appears to be throwing a lot of technology at the problem, a new study finds.
By Jai Vijayan Contributing Writer, 10/10/2019
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Imperva Details Response to Customer Database Exposure
Dark Reading Staff, Quick Hits
The cloud security's CEO and CTO lay out the timeline of events and the steps customers should take to protect their accounts.
By Dark Reading Staff , 10/10/2019
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Akamai Snaps Up ChameleonX to Tackle Magecart
Dark Reading Staff, Quick Hits
The Israel-based ChameleonX aims to protect websites from cyberattacks targeting payment data.
By Dark Reading Staff , 10/10/2019
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Works of Art: Cybersecurity Inspires 6 Winning Ideas
Terry Sweeney, Contributing Editor
The Center for Long Term Cybersecurity recently awarded grants to six artists in a contest to come up with ideas for works with security themes and elements. Check 'em out.
By Terry Sweeney Contributing Editor, 10/10/2019
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How to Think Like a Hacker
Dr. Giovanni Vigna, Chief Technology Officer at LastlineCommentary
In the arms race of computer security, it's never been more important to develop an adversarial mindset that can identify assumptions and determine if and how they can be violated.
By Dr. Giovanni Vigna Chief Technology Officer at Lastline, 10/10/2019
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Attackers Hide Behind Trusted Domains, HTTPS
Robert Lemos, Contributing WriterNews
One in four malicious URLs employed a legitimate domain, making it more difficult for potential victims to spot possible dangers, a mid-year report finds.
By Robert Lemos Contributing Writer, 10/10/2019
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Magecart Attack on Volusion Highlights Supply Chain Dangers
Kelly Sheridan, Staff Editor, Dark ReadingNews
Attackers compromised Volusion's Google Cloud environment to load malicious skimmer code onto more than 6,500 customer sites.
By Kelly Sheridan Staff Editor, Dark Reading, 10/10/2019
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Network Security Must Transition into the Cloud Era
John Grady, Analyst at Enterprise Strategy GroupCommentary
An integrated approach is the best way to provide organizations with the tools they need to decrease the attack surface and use strong security controls.
By John Grady Analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, 10/10/2019
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Virginia a Hot Spot For Cybersecurity Jobs
Jai Vijayan, Contributing WriterNews
State has highest number of people in information security roles and the most current job openings, Comparitech study finds.
By Jai Vijayan Contributing Writer, 10/9/2019
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Security Tool Sprawl Reaches Tipping Point
Kelly Jackson Higgins, Executive Editor at Dark ReadingNews
How a new open source initiative for interoperable security tools and a wave of consolidation could finally provide some relief for overwhelmed security analysts and SOCs.
By Kelly Jackson Higgins Executive Editor at Dark Reading, 10/9/2019
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USB Drive Security Still Lags
Dark Reading Staff, Quick Hits
While USB drives are frequent pieces of business hardware, a new report says that one-third of US businesses have no policy governing their use.
By Dark Reading Staff , 10/9/2019
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A Realistic Threat Model for the Masses
Lysa Myers, Security Researcher, ESETCommentary
For many people, overly restrictive advice about passwords and other security practices is doing more harm than good. Here's why.
By Lysa Myers Security Researcher, ESET, 10/9/2019
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Twitter Slip-Up Spills MFA Phone Numbers, Emails to Advertisers
Dark Reading Staff, Quick Hits
Email addresses and phone numbers provided to secure user accounts were accidentally shared with marketers.
By Dark Reading Staff , 10/9/2019
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CVE-2019-17545
PUBLISHED: 2019-10-14
GDAL through 3.0.1 has a poolDestroy double free in OGRExpatRealloc in ogr/ogr_expat.cpp when the 10MB threshold is exceeded.
CVE-2019-17546
PUBLISHED: 2019-10-14
tif_getimage.c in LibTIFF through 4.0.10, as used in GDAL through 3.0.1 and other products, has an integer overflow that potentially causes a heap-based buffer overflow via a crafted RGBA image, related to a "Negative-size-param" condition.
CVE-2019-17547
PUBLISHED: 2019-10-14
In ImageMagick before 7.0.8-62, TraceBezier in MagickCore/draw.c has a use-after-free.
CVE-2019-17501
PUBLISHED: 2019-10-14
Centreon 19.04 allows attackers to execute arbitrary OS commands via the Command Line field of main.php?p=60807&type=4 (aka the Configuration > Commands > Discovery screen).
CVE-2019-17539
PUBLISHED: 2019-10-14
In FFmpeg before 4.2, avcodec_open2 in libavcodec/utils.c allows a NULL pointer dereference and possibly unspecified other impact when there is no valid close function pointer.
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