Tuesday, September 5th, 2017
In Q1 and Q2 of 2017, we noticed a sharp decline in drive-by downloads coming from compromised websites. The campaigns of the past are either gone (Pseudo Darkleech) or have changed focus (EITest using social engineering techniques).
Malvertising – which has remained steady and is currently the main driving force behind ...
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Friday, September 1st, 2017
On August 31, 2017, Nomotion released five vulnerabilities for two Arris modems used by AT&T U-Verse customers in the US. The vulnerabilities are of the following types:
Hardcoded Credentials (CWE-798)
Information Exposure (CWE-200)
Authenticated Command Injection (CWE-78)
Firewall Bypass (CWE-653)
The hardcoded credentials give attackers access to the device via SSH or HTTP/HTTPS. ...
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Friday, September 1st, 2017
A new WebExtension version of the popular content blocker uBlock Origin was just uploaded to Mozilla's official add-ons repository for Firefox.
The new version is compatible with Firefox's new WebExtensions standard for extensions, and will as such continue to work when Firefox 57 gets released.
This first official release of the WebExtensions ...
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Tuesday, June 27th, 2017
The Windows 10 Fall Creators Update will include EMET-like capabilities managed through a new feature called Windows Defender Exploit Guard.
Microsoft's EMET, the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit, was a useful tool for hardening Windows systems. It used a range of techniques—some built in to Windows, some part of EMET itself—to make ...
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Tuesday, June 27th, 2017
Security experts have warned IT teams to improve protection for Linux servers and IoT devices after observing an increase in threats targeting these systems.
WatchGuard Technologies’ latest quarterly Internet Security Report is based on analysis of over 26,500 active UTM appliances round the world.
It revealed that overall malware detection dropped by ...
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