Intel has started releasing new microcode updates that should address one of the Spectre vulnerabilities after the first round of patches caused significant problems for many users. The company has so far released new firmware updates only for its Skylake processors, but expects updates to become available for other platforms […]
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A propos du jackpotting Jackpotting, ou le « braquage 3.0″ ou encore »blackbox », les appellations se diffèrent mais la technique reste la même. Le jackoptting a fait son apparition en Europe et en Amérique en 2015 et a engendré la pertes de 50.000 euros en 2016.Mais ces derniers jours, au Etats Unis, […]
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96 percent of organizations have received business email compromise (BEC) emails during the second half of 2017, according to Agari. “BEC is a particularly effective attack vector because its lack of payload makes it nearly impossible for conventional email security solutions to detect and prevent,” said Markus Jakobsson, chief scientist, […]
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Strategic partnership provides automated defense against malicious bots and scripts for web and mobile applications by combining Approov and PT Application Firewall Positive Technologies and CriticalBlue today announced a strategic partnership to provide an integrated mobile and web application security offering for companies looking to defend against the growing threat […]
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Le retour des Ranswomwares avec l’apparition de GandCrab: Comprendre son mode de fonctionnement et comment mettre fin à ce virus? Introduction Comme prévu et comme Cyber.tn a déja mentionné dans un de ses articles; l’année 2018 sera l’année des ransomwares par excellence, et ca commence pas mal avec l’apparition d’un […]
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In four months the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force, and companies are racing against time to comply with the new rules (and avoid being brutally fined if they fail). One of the things that the regulation mandates is that EU citizens must be able to get […]
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Don’t install Intel’s patches for Spectre and Meltdown chip vulnerabilities. Intel on Monday warned that you should stop deploying its current versions of Spectre/Meltdown patches, which Linux creator Linus Torvalds calls ‘complete and utter garbage.’ Spectre and Meltdown are security vulnerabilities disclosed by researchers earlier this month in many processors from Intel, ARM and AMD used […]
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Engineers at Chinese firm Lenovo have identified a backdoor in the networking switched namely Rackswitch and BladeCenter firmware. The company stated that the backdoor, referred to in the company’s security advisory (CVE-2017-3765) as “HP backdoor,” was discovered after carrying out an internal security audit of firmware for all the products […]
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On January 10, Cisco’s officially released its software platform Encrypted Traffic Analytics (ETA) that can keep a check on network packet metadata so as to detect malicious traffic. The software was previously launched in June 2017 but it has remained in private preview ever since because only enterprises were able […]
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Linux vs Meltdown: Ubuntu gets second update after first one fails to boot Canonical, the company that makes Linux distro Ubuntu, has re-released its Meltdown update for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial users after the first attempt tripped up machines. Canonical managed to get its fix for the Meltdown CPU bug […]
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