Distil Bot Discovery for Google Analytics is a free offering that will give website owners the ability to understand the impact of bots on their business. The service is provided by Distil Networks, a company specializing in bot detection and mitigation services. How to differentiate a human website visitor from […]
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Security experts at Core Security have disclosed the details of a buffer overflow vulnerability that affects MikroTik RouterOS in versions prior to the latest 6.41.3. MikroTik is a Latvian vendor that produce routers used by many telco companies worldwide that run RouterOS Linux-based operating system. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-7445, could be exploited […]
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WASHINGTON, DC, March 16, 2018 (ENS) – Russian government hackers have been targeting U.S. government entities as well as organizations in the energy, nuclear, commercial facilities, water, aviation, and critical manufacturing sectors for the past two years, according to a joint Technical Alert issued by the Department of Homeland Security and […]
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The British intelligence service has warned large power companies in the country of the possibility of Russian cyber attacks after the scandal with the poisoning of former Russian double spy Sergei Scrypal and his daughter Yulia, today reported British media citing a government source. “Communicate with all major infrastructure managers […]
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Des acteurs malveillants s’appuient sur l’infrastructure de GitHub – une plateforme d’hébergement et de gestion de développement de logiciels – pour propager les malwares dont ils sont les auteurs. L’information est de la firme de sécurité Avast. « Les cybercriminels créent des forks – ce qui sous GitHub veut dire copier […]
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A new cyber attack against a Saudi petrochemical plant made the headlines, hackers attempted to hit the infrastructure in August. Do you remember the powerful cyber attack that in 2012 hit computers at Saudi Aramco? A new cyber attack against a petrochemical plant in Saudi Arabia made the headlines, hackers attempted to hit the infrastructure […]
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News of the day is that the Mossack Fonseca law firm would shut down operations due to the reputational damage caused by the Panama Papers security breach. The Panama Papers is a huge trove of strictly confidential documents from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca that was leaked online on April 3, 2016. […]
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Facebook has confirmed over the weekend reports that an app made by a team of academics had collected vasts amounts of user data, who then shared this information with Cambridge Analytica —a commercial data analytics firm that allegedly used this info to target US voters in the 2016 Presidential election. […]
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For at past nine years, Mozilla has been using an insufficiently strong encryption mechanism for the « master password » feature. Both Firefox and Thunderbird allow users to set up a « master password » through their settings panel. This master password plays the role of an encryption key that is used to encrypt […]
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Cisco Meraki, a provider of cloud-managed IT solutions, announced last week the launch of a public bug bounty program with rewards of up to $10,000 per vulnerability. Cisco Meraki, which resulted from Cisco’s acquisition of Meraki in late 2012, started with a private bug bounty program on the Bugcrowd platform. […]
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