Cisco: Four high priority security issues are found Cisco’s Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software                                        19th April 2017  By Michael Cooney   Cisco had a pretty large dump of security advisories today – seven “high priority” and one “critical” – impacting a variety of products many with the threat… Continue reading Cisco issues 7 “high priority” security advisories; Firepower, IOS and ASA issues among them

CEO used client hospital’s network in demo “hundreds of times,” reports WSJ.                                                                       Orion Hindawi, co-founder and chief technology officer of Tanium Inc.   Sean Gallagher – 4/19/2017   Information security company Tanium is a relatively well-established “next-generation” cybersecurity vendor that was founded 10 years ago—far ahead of… Continue reading Tanium exposed hospital’s IT while using its network in sales demos

19th April 2017  By Mike Baukes   As bad as this controversy is for Symantec, the real damage will befall the company and individual web sites deemed untrustworthy by a Chrome browser on the basis of a rejected Symantec certificate.   News that Google may be imposing a series of restrictions in Chrome against digital… Continue reading Google Won’t Trust Symantec and Neither Should You

19th April 2017   Reading junk spam messages isn’t exactly my idea of a good time, but sometimes fun can be had when you take a moment to check who really sent the email. Here’s the simple story of how a recent spam email advertising celebrity “diet pills” was traced back to a Washington, D.C.-area defense contractor that… Continue reading Tracing Spam: Diet Pills from Beltway Bandits

Google Chrome 58.0.3029.81 Stablehttps://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/04/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html     Chrome 58.0.3029.81 contains a number of fixes and improvements — a list of changes is available in the log.  Watch out for upcoming Chrome and Chromium blog posts about new features and big efforts delivered in 58.   Security Fixes and Rewards Note: Access to bug details and links… Continue reading Google Chrome 58.0.3029.81 Stable

Zeljka Zorz – April 18, 2017   As predicted earlier this year, the leaking of the source code and instructions for creating a potent Android banking Trojan has resulted in a surge of malware based on it.                                      Initially, the malware – dubbed BankBot – was being delivered… Continue reading BankBot Trojan found lurking on Google Play

Sensors in phones running both iOS and Android reveal all kinds of sensitive info.                                         Dan Goodin – 4/18/2017   Smartphones know an awful lot about us. They know if we’re in a car that’s speeding, and they know when we’re walking, running, or riding in a… Continue reading Meet PINLogger, the drive-by exploit that steals smartphone PINs

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Now even low-level criminals can jump into the ransomware game, said the researchers who found the malware.                                         By Zack Whittaker for Zero Day | April 18, 2017   A new kind of highly-customized ransomware recently discovered by security researchers allows individual criminals to deliver “ransomware-as-a-service”.  … Continue reading A Russian hacker has created his own ‘starter pack’ ransomware service

Redmond develops new tech for future devices                                      Apr 18, 2017 10:00 GMT  ·  By Bogdan Popa   Microsoft is more or less the pioneer of iris scanners on mobile phones, as the company was among the first to introduce such tech on smartphones with Lumia 950 in October 2015, and now it… Continue reading Microsoft Creates Hacker-Proof Iris Scanner for Potential Surface Phone