Non-malware attacks, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) have emerged as the topics of the day in cybersecurity. AI and ML’s roles in preventing cyberattacks have been met with both hope and skepticism. They have been marketed as game-changing technologies though doubts still persist, especially when used in siloes. Their emergence is due largely… Continue reading beyond the hype
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Booby-trapped Word documents in the wild exploit critical Microsoft 0day
There’s currently no patch for the bug, which affects most or all versions of Word. Dan Goodin – 4/8/2017 There’s a new zeroday attack in the wild that’s surreptitiously installing malware on fully-patched computers. It does so by exploiting a vulnerability in most or all versions of Microsoft Word. The… Continue reading Booby-trapped Word documents in the wild exploit critical Microsoft 0day
Apple Malware Appears to Be Skyrocketing
8th April 2017 By Jonathan Vanian If you’re a Mac user, you might want to look out for an increase of unwanted advertisements popping out from your web browsers. Security firm McAfee released a report this week that showed a big jump in 2016 regarding malware hitting the Mac operating system. The McAfee report… Continue reading Apple Malware Appears to Be Skyrocketing
The top 5 dumbest cyber threats that work anyway
April 8, 2017 by William Tsing The common conception of cyber attacks is kind of like bad weather: ranging from irritating to catastrophic, but always unpredictable. Hackers are simply too sophisticated to draw any reliable judgments on and we shouldn’t try. As it turns out, some hackers are fairly predictable in their successful use… Continue reading The top 5 dumbest cyber threats that work anyway
Neptune 4.5.4 Arrives with Linux Kernel 3.18.48 LTS, Dozens of Security Fixes
The newer Linux 4.9.18 LTS kernel is available in the repos Apr 7, 2017 20:40 GMT · By Marius Nestor The developers behind the Debian-based Neptune Linux distribution announced today, April 7, 2017, the release and immediate availability for download of the fourth maintenance update to the Neptune 4.5 stable series… Continue reading Neptune 4.5.4 Arrives with Linux Kernel 3.18.48 LTS, Dozens of Security Fixes
Jailbreaking puts mobile users at risk
7th April 2017 By Sead Fadilpašić Mobile users frequently stray from official app stores when looking for new mobile applications, putting themselves under increased risk from malware, ransomware and other malicious actors. This is according to a new report by RiskIQ, which says that users in the… Continue reading Jailbreaking puts mobile users at risk
Baseband Zero Day Exposes Millions of Mobile Phones to Attack
By Tom Spring April 7, 2017 , 4:10 pm MIAMI—A previously undisclosed baseband vulnerability impacting Huawei smartphones, laptop WWAN modules and IoT components was revealed Thursday at the Infiltrate Conference by researcher Ralf-Phillip Weinmann, managing director at security firm Comsecuris. In one attack scenario, the vulnerability… Continue reading Baseband Zero Day Exposes Millions of Mobile Phones to Attack
QNAP NAS devices open to remote command execution
Zeljka Zorz – April 7, 2017 If you’re using one of the many QNAP NAS devices and you haven’t yet upgraded the QTS firmware to version 4.2.4, you should do so immediately if you don’t want it to fall prey to attackers. … Continue reading QNAP NAS devices open to remote command execution
A huge trove of patient data leaks, thanks to telemarketers' bad security
The data of almost a million patients with diabetes and other medical ailments has been secured. By Zack Whittaker for Zero Day | April 7, 2017 A trove of records containing personal and health information on close to a million people was exposed after a former developer working at a telemarketing… Continue reading A huge trove of patient data leaks, thanks to telemarketers' bad security
New Macro-Based Malware Attacks Windows and MacOS systems
A new form of Microsoft Word macro-based malware has been discovered by cyber security researchers. This malware can affect both Windows and MacOS systems but follows different methods of attack for each operating system. The malicious macro is built-up on VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) code and contains instructions to automatically execute when the file… Continue reading New Macro-Based Malware Attacks Windows and MacOS systems