Security Affairs newsletter Round 8 - Best of the week from best sources

Security Affairs newsletter Round 8 – Best of the week from best sources

Pierluigi Paganini May 10, 2015

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from the best sources free for you in your email box.

Trustwave discovered the first political malvertising campaign

Mozilla Fundation, a step toward to full HTTPS implementation

How Selerity reported Twitter’s earnings—before Twitter did

Carders crack Hard Rock casino

Australian 19 year-old who hacked Microsoft and US Army is fugitive

Anonymous Hacker breached WTO database and Leaked data of internal staff

Nasty Dyre malware bests white hat sandboxes

PayPal Fixes Remote Code Execution Flaw in Partner Program Website

EllisLab Users Advised to Change Passwords After Data Breach

Increased encryption a double-edged sword

Google Updates Password Alert Extension, But Some Bypasses Still Work

Sally Beauty Investigating Second Data Breach

Iran accused of the blackout that paralyzed the Turkey

Attackers Peddling Malware via CareerBuilder

US reviews use of cellphone spying technology

The world’s most wanted hackers

Facebook Opens Free Internet to Developers, But wont Support HTTPS Encryption

USBKill used to wipe clean criminal’s PCs

Analysis Attempts Cause Rombertik Malware to Destroy the MBR

Netflix looses FIDO hack attack dog as open source

Cybercriminals borrow from APT playbook in attack against PoS vendors

Rombertik, a complex malware that also wipes hard drive to prevent analysis

Hacking Military Drones Info Can Be Found on Google

The Internet of Things to take a beating in DefCon hacking contest

IT threat evolution in Q1 2015

Hacking Drug Infusion Pumps, never so easy

Lenovo Patches Critical System Update Vulnerabilities

Awareness lessons from the Sony hack

CyberLock, IOActive Argue Over Disclosure of Electronic Lock Flaws

Civil liberties groups oppose bill ending NSAs bulk phone records program

Spooks BUSTED: 27,000 profiles reveal new intel ops, home addresses

Apple swats Webkit bugs that bit it on Safari

RHINEHART, VoiceRT, how NSA converted spoken words into text

Apple Updates Safari to Patch Several Vulnerabilities

Healthcare Data Breaches From Cyberattacks, Criminals Eclipse Employee Error For The First Time

Ex-NSA security bod fanboi: Apple Macs are wide open to malware

Criminal attacks now surpass accidental breaches in healthcare

F*cking DLL! Avast false positive trashes Windows code libraries

Companies are falling behind on securing their SAP environments

Red-faced Germans halt NSA cooperation after Euro spying revealed

Traditional crooks and violent offenders are turning to the cybercrime

US Appeals Court Rules NSA Bulk Data Sweep Illegal

Cisco Fixes Critical Command Execution Flaw in UCS Central Software

CPL Malware in Brazil: somewhere between banking trojans and malicious emails

Beginning Of The End For Patch Tuesday

Healthcare Organizations Face Spike in Data Breaches From Criminal Attacks

White House Evaluating New Court Ruling Declaring NSA Data-Collection Program Illegal

US Court Rules NSA Phone surveillance Program is illegal

Is online voting a security risk?

$7500 DDoS extortion hitting Aussie, Kiwi enterprises

New Linux rootkit leverages GPUs for stealth

PCI DSS 3.1 and SSLv3: It’s best time to remove the 20 year old SSL protocol

GPU-based malware, the evolution of rootkits and keyloggers

A new report from Google uncovers Ad injection economy

FTC slaps orders on alleged diet pill spamvertising scam scum

Security Updates Coming for Adobe Reader, Acrobat

Get ready: Critical Adobe Reader patches coming on Tuesday 12 May

US Concerned Over Reported Chinese Global Censorship Tool

Visitors to top porn sites hit by malvertising attack

Adobe to Patch Critical Vulnerabilities in Reader, Acrobat

WordPress Sites Backdoored, Leaking Credentials

Rockwell Automation Patches Buffer Overflow in ICS App

Beware Of Game of 72, it challenges teenagers to disappear for 72 hours

Rogue cybersecurity firm killed cancer testing lab, claims ex-employee

Facebook Friends Mapper – How to crawl Hidden Friends

Former US Govt Employee Tried to Sell Nuclear Secrets

New GPU-based Linux Rootkit and Keylogger with Excellent Stealth and Computing Power

GPS used to locate a gang using gas pump skimmers

PHP Hash Comparison Weakness A Threat To Websites, Researcher Says

Windows 10 is the Last Version of Windows, Microsoft Confirmed

95 percent of SAP systems were exposed to vulnerabilities

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Once again thank you!

Pierluigi Paganini

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 8 – Best of the week from best sources

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from the best sources free for you in your email box.

Email address: Hurry up, subscribe to the newsletter, next Sunday you will receive all the news directly in your inbox.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 8 – Best of the week from best sources

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from the best sources free for you in your email box.

Email address: Hurry up, subscribe to the newsletter, next Sunday you will receive all the news directly in your inbox.

you might also like

Belk hit by May cyberattack: DragonForce stole 150GB of data

North Korea-linked actors spread XORIndex malware via 67 malicious npm packages

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Belk hit by May cyberattack: DragonForce stole 150GB of data

North Korea-linked actors spread XORIndex malware via 67 malicious npm packages

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An attacker using a $500 radio setup could potentially trigger train brake failures or derailments from a distance

Interlock ransomware group deploys new PHP-based RAT via FileFix

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