There was some good news and some bad news for the Internet-using public in early 2019. The good news is that the total number of conventional, spam-based phishing campaigns declined as 2018 came to a close, while the bad news is that users of software-as-a-service (SaaS) systems and webmail services […]
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Google’s one-year-old cybersecurity venture Chronicle today announced its first commercial product, called Backstory, a cloud-based enterprise-level threat analytics platform that has been designed to help companies quickly investigate incidents, pinpoint vulnerabilities and hunt for potential threats. Network infrastructures at most enterprises regularly generate enormous amounts of network data and logs on […]
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Un hacker algérien a piraté le site internet officiel du parti Front de Libération National (FLN) et a laissé un message des plus émouvant en langue anglaise. « Laissez-nous tranquilles ! Laissez l’Algérie tranquille ! », « Nous accordons le pardon », a-t-il conclu. « Leave us alone! Leave Algeria alone!… We forgive », a écrit […]
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The Wireshark Foundation released Wireshark 3.0.0, the latest release of the popular open-source packet analyzer. The Wireshark Foundation announced the release of Wireshark 3.0.0, the latest release of the popular open-source packet analyzer. The new version addresses several bugs and introduces tens of new features, it also improved existing features. The most important changes […]
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Two days after Cisco patched a severe vulnerability in a popular brand of SOHO routers, and one day after the publication of proof-of-concept code, hackers have started scans and attacks exploiting the said security bug to take over unpatched devices. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-1663, was of note when it came […]
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Group-IB experts discovered new databases with a total of 69,189 Pakistani banks’ cards that have shown up for sale on the dark web. Group-IB, an international company that specializes in preventing cyberattacks, has discovered new databases with a total of 69,189 Pakistani banks’ cards that have shown up for sale on the dark web. The total market value of […]
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The British Airways Entertainment System, as installed on Boeing 777-36N(ER) and possibly other aircraft, is affected by a privilege escalation issue tracked as CVE-2019-9019. Experts discovered a critical vulnerability in the British Airways Entertainment System. The flaw is a privilege escalation issue that resides in the component USB Handler, an attacker could exploit […]
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Experts discovered a malspam campaign that is distributing a malicious RAR archive that could exploit the WinRAR flaw to install deliver malware on a computer. A few days ago, security experts at CheckPoint software have disclosed a critical 19-year-old vulnerability in the WinRAR that could be exploited by attackers to gain full […]
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At NDSS Symposium 2019, a group of university researchers yesterday revealed newly discovered cellular network vulnerabilities that impact both 4G and 5G LTE protocols. According to a paper published by the researchers, « Privacy Attacks to the 4G and 5G Cellular Paging Protocols Using Side Channel Information, » the new attacks could allow remote […]
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Developers of Drupal—a popular open-source content management system software that powers millions of websites—have released the latest version of their software to patch a critical vulnerability that could allow remote attackers to hack your site. The update came two days after the Drupal security team released an advance security notification of the […]
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