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Larry Loeb Author, | 1/23/2020
Inside of Windows is a methodology called Encrypting File System (EFS). It works on individual files or folders, rather than at the whole disk level like BitLocker does. Researchers at SafeBreach have discovered that it can be used to create a new kind of ransomware as well.
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Larry Loeb Author, | 1/21/2020
Microsoft is doing something concrete about container security with the release of the Microsoft Application Inspector, a cross-platform tool whose "primary objective is to identify source code features in a systematic and scalable way not found elsewhere in typical static analyzers" as the creators said in the Wiki. The idea behind it is to open up ...
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Larry Loeb Author, | 1/20/2020
One threat actor is taking advantage of the current problems with Citrix ADC/Netscaler (CVE-2019-19781) for their own advantage.
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Oliver Schonschek Security Now News Analyst, | 1/16/2020
A cloud data center in the EU is not enough for many German companies. They prefer German locations, preferably within their own particular region. At the same time, they need cloud services from US providers. The European data infrastructure GAIA-X can help connect these disparate needs of German firms and create market access for providers from the EU ...
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Larry Loeb Author, | 1/16/2020
Microsoft's system patches for January 2020 have a doozy hiding in there, one that makes patching an affected Windows system mandatory.
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Larry Loeb Author, | 1/15/2020
E-commerce fraud has no morals. That was starkly shown recently when a site that collected donations for victims of the Australian fires was hit with the Magecart skimmer, which steals payment data that has been entered on websites.
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Larry Loeb Author, | 1/14/2020
On December 17, 2019, Mikhail Klyuchnikov of Positive Technologies announced, along with Citrix, that he had found and verified a vulnerability (CVE-2019-19781) in the Citrix ADC and Citrix Gateway products (which had previously been called NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway). Exploitation of it could lead to code execution without authentication and ...
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Larry Loeb Author, | 1/13/2020
The Bread malware for Android is also called Joker. But no matter the name, its authors have proven themselves to be unrelenting in their efforts to avoid being first discovered by and then dumped from Google's Play Store.
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Larry Loeb Author, | 1/9/2020
Nathan Collier, a senior malware intelligence analyst with Malwarebytes Labs, has found that a low-cost Android phone made in China has two large malware files pre-installed by the manufacturer that directly affect the purchaser of the phone.
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