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Trickbot Operators Now Selling Attack Tools to APT Actors
Jai Vijayan, Contributing WriterNews
North Korea's Lazarus Group - of Sony breach and WannaCry fame - is among the first customers.
By Jai Vijayan Contributing Writer, 12/11/2019
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Intel Issues Fix for 'Plundervolt' SGX Flaw
Kelly Jackson Higgins, Executive Editor at Dark ReadingNews
Researchers were able to extract AES encryption key using SGX's voltage-tuning function.
By Kelly Jackson Higgins Executive Editor at Dark Reading, 12/11/2019
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The Next Security Silicon Valley: Coming to a City Near You?
Sara Peters, Senior Editor at Dark Reading
The high cost of doing business in California's San Francisco Bay Area is just one factor driving infosec companies — established and and startups, alike — to pursue their fortunes elsewhere. Here's where many are going.
By Sara Peters Senior Editor at Dark Reading, 12/11/2019
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5 Tips for Keeping Your Security Team on Target
Joshua Goldfarb, Independent ConsultantCommentary
In nearly every security environment, competing priorities are a constant battleground. Here's how to keep the focus on what's important.
By Joshua Goldfarb Independent Consultant, 12/11/2019
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Google Chrome Now Automatically Alerts Users on Compromised Passwords
Dark Reading Staff, Quick Hits
A series of security enhancements seek to protect users from phishing and warn them when credentials have been compromised.
By Dark Reading Staff , 12/11/2019
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Younger Generations Drive Bulk of 2FA Adoption
Kelly Sheridan, Staff Editor, Dark ReadingNews
Use of two-factor authentication has nearly doubled in the past two years , pointing to a new wave of acceptance.
By Kelly Sheridan Staff Editor, Dark Reading, 12/11/2019
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Nation-State Attackers May Have Co-opted Vega Ransomware
Robert Lemos, Contributing WriterNews
The tactics used by the latest version of the Vega cryptolocker program indicates the code may have been stolen from its authors and is now being used for destructive attacks, a new report suggests.
By Robert Lemos Contributing Writer, 12/11/2019
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Only Half of Malware Caught by Signature AV
Robert Lemos, Contributing WriterNews
Machine learning and behavioral detection are necessary to catch threats, WatchGuard says in a new report. Meanwhile, network attacks have risen, especially against older vulnerabilities, such as those in Apache Struts.
By Robert Lemos Contributing Writer, 12/11/2019
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City of Pensacola, Fla., Confirms Ransomware Attack
Dark Reading Staff, Quick Hits
Most systems remain offline to prevent the attack from spreading.
By Dark Reading Staff , 12/11/2019
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Big Changes Are Coming to Security Analytics & Operations
Jon Oltsik, Senior Principal Analyst & Fellow, Enterprise Strategy GroupCommentary
New ESG research points to fundamental problems, a need for scalable security data pipelines, and a migration to the public cloud.
By Jon Oltsik Senior Principal Analyst & Fellow, Enterprise Strategy Group, 12/11/2019
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Data Leak Week: Billions of Sensitive Files Exposed Online
Kelly Jackson Higgins, Executive Editor at Dark ReadingNews
A total of 2.7 billion email addresses, 1 billion email account passwords, and nearly 800,000 applications for copies of birth certificate were found on unsecured cloud buckets.
By Kelly Jackson Higgins Executive Editor at Dark Reading, 12/10/2019
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Microsoft Fixes Windows Zero-Day on Lightest Patch Tuesday of 2019
Kelly Sheridan, Staff Editor, Dark ReadingNews
This month's batch of security updates addresses 36 CVEs, seven of which are rated Critical and one of which has been exploited in the wild.
By Kelly Sheridan Staff Editor, Dark Reading, 12/10/2019
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Blink Cameras Found with Multiple Vulnerabilities
Dark Reading Staff, Quick Hits
Researchers found three broad types of vulnerabilities, one of which should be particularly concerning to consumers.
By Dark Reading Staff , 12/10/2019
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Security 101: What Is a Man-in-the-Middle Attack?
Joan Goodchild, Contributing Writer
A breakdown of the common ways criminals employ MitM techniques to snare victims, and tips for protecting users from these dirty tricks.
By Joan Goodchild Contributing Writer, 12/10/2019
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Intel's CPU Flaws Continue to Create Problems for the Tech Community
Irfan Ahmed, Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Commonwealth UniversityCommentary
We can't wait out this problem and hope that it goes away. We must be proactive.
By Irfan Ahmed Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Commonwealth University, 12/10/2019
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Only 53% of Security Pros Have Ownership of Workforce IAM
Dark Reading Staff, Quick Hits
Most practitioners report an increase in identities, but many don't have control over how those identities are protected from a range of attacks.
By Dark Reading Staff , 12/10/2019
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Deliver a Deadly Counterpunch to Ransomware Attacks: 4 Steps
Mathew Newfield, Chief Information Security Officer at UnisysCommentary
You can't prevent all ransomware attacks. However, it's possible to ensure that if a breach happens, it doesn't spread, affect business, and become a newsworthy event.
By Mathew Newfield Chief Information Security Officer at Unisys, 12/10/2019
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Scientists Break Largest Encryption Key Yet with Brute Force
Dark Reading Staff, Quick Hits
The key, only one-third the length of most commercial encryption keys, took more than 35 million compute hours to break.
By Dark Reading Staff , 12/9/2019
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Microsoft 'Campaign Views' Offers Full Look at Office 365 Attacks
Kelly Sheridan, Staff Editor, Dark ReadingNews
Campaign views, arriving in public preview, aims to share more context around how attackers targeted an organization and whether its defenses worked.
By Kelly Sheridan Staff Editor, Dark Reading, 12/9/2019
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Maersk CISO Says NotPeyta Devastated Several Unnamed US firms
Black Hat Staff, Commentary
At least two companies may have been dealt even more damage than the shipping giant, which lost nearly its entire global IT infrastructure.
By By Eric Parizo, Senior Analyst, Ovum , 12/9/2019
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This Tech Digest provides a wrap up and overview of the year's top cybersecurity news stories. It was a year of new twists on old threats, with fears of another WannaCry-type worm and of a possible botnet army of Wi-Fi routers. But 2019 also underscored the risk of firmware and trusted security tools harboring dangerous holes that cybercriminals and nation-state hackers could readily abuse. Read more.
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CVE-2019-10694
PUBLISHED: 2019-12-12
The express install, which is the suggested way to install Puppet Enterprise, gives the user a URL at the end of the install to set the admin password. If they do not use that URL, there is an overlooked default password for the admin user. This was resolved in Puppet Enterprise 2019.0.3 and 2018.1....
CVE-2019-10695
PUBLISHED: 2019-12-12
When using the cd4pe::root_configuration task to configure a Continuous Delivery for PE installation, the root user�s username and password were exposed in the job�s Job Details pane in the PE console. These issues have been resolved in version 1.2.1 of the ...
CVE-2019-5085
PUBLISHED: 2019-12-12
An exploitable code execution vulnerability exists in the DICOM packet-parsing functionality of LEADTOOLS libltdic.so, version 20.0.2019.3.15. A specially crafted packet can cause an integer overflow, resulting in heap corruption. An attacker can send a packet to trigger this vulnerability.
CVE-2019-5090
PUBLISHED: 2019-12-12
An exploitable information disclosure vulnerability exists in the DICOM packet-parsing functionality of LEADTOOLS libltdic.so, version 20.0.2019.3.15. A specially crafted packet can cause an out-of-bounds read, resulting in information disclosure. An attacker can send a packet to trigger this vulner...
CVE-2019-5091
PUBLISHED: 2019-12-12
An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the Dicom-packet parsing functionality of LEADTOOLS libltdic.so version 20.0.2019.3.15. A specially crafted packet can cause an infinite loop, resulting in a denial of service. An attacker can send a packet to trigger this vulnerability.
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