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News & Views Russian-Backed Sofacy Group Used New Cannon Trojan in Recent Attacks Larry Loeb Author, \| 12/17/2018 With all the current turmoil in the cybersecurity area, it's easy to forget that there are persistent threat actors always out there. Post a Comment \| READ () SQLite Vulnerability Could Put Thousands of Apps at Risk Larry Loeb Author, \| 12/17/2018 A nuclear bomb has gone off in security land. Post a Comment \| READ () Spam Emails Bring Bomb Threats to US Businesses, Schools Scott Ferguson Managing Editor, Light Reading, \| 12/14/2018 A series of bomb threats emailed to businesses and schools throughout the US on Thursday sent law enforcement and security official scrambling to find the origin of what appears to be a massive spam campaign and hoax. Post a Comment \| READ () Phishing Emails, Trojans Continued to Proliferate in Q3 – Report Larry Loeb Author, \| 12/14/2018 Should a message from PayPal with a subject line of "Your Account Will Be Locked" shows up in your email inbox, Comodo Cybersecurity thinks you had better leave it alone. Post a Comment \| READ (1 Comment) Latest comment: I didn't know that country features so prominently. Anytheories on that? Cisco: 'Brute Force' Attacks Outweigh AI Threat Mitch Wagner Executive Editor, Light Reading, \| 12/14/2018 In a wide-ranging interview, Cisco security boss Gee Rittenhouse talks about how machine learning, AI, blockchain and other emerging technologies fit into the security landscape. Post a Comment \| READ () IoT Botnets Shifting to Exploit Vulnerabilities Jeffrey Burt Freelance Editor & Journ, \| 12/13/2018 Internet of Things devices are being hit with increasingly sophisticated botnet attacks that aim to exploit vulnerabilities and that target the devices sometimes within minutes of coming online, according to researchers with NetScout's threat intelligence group. Post a Comment \| READ () China Suspected of Massive Marriott Data Breach – Report Scott Ferguson Managing Editor, Light Reading, \| 12/13/2018 Cyber spies working for China are suspected of pulling off the massive data breach at Marriott, which involved personal data of 500 million Starwood customers, in an effort to gather intelligence on specific US citizens, according to a published report in the New York Times. Post a Comment \| READ () 'Operation Sharpshooter': Lazarus Revived or False Flag Operation? Scott Ferguson Managing Editor, Light Reading, \| 12/12/2018 McAfee Labs researchers have zeroed in on a new cyber campaign targeting critical infrastructure, including nuclear, defense, energy, and financial facilities in multiple countries including the US, which they are calling "Operation Sharpshooter." Post a Comment \| READ () 'Novidade' Exploit Changes DNS Settings in Home & Small Business Routers Larry Loeb Author, \| 12/12/2018 A new exploit spotted by Trend Micro is designed to target small home and office (SOHO) routers, as well as consumer-grade home routers, by changing their internal domain name service (DNS) setting to one that is determined by the attacker. Post a Comment \| READ () Supermicro: Report Clears Company of Hacking Allegations Scott Ferguson Managing Editor, Light Reading, \| 12/12/2018 In an attempt to clear the company name, Supermicro released the results of an audit that showed hackers did not compromise the firm's hardware by implanting highly specialized chips that would lead to large-scale industrial espionage. Post a Comment \| READ () ESET Researchers Find 12 New Linux Malware Families Larry Loeb Author, \| 12/11/2018 Linux targets tend to get less attention from security researchers than Microsoft Windows since open source is considered a key ingredient to a secure operating system. But that does not mean it is untouchable. Post a Comment \| READ () M2M Protocols Expose IoT Data, Trend Micro Finds Jeffrey Burt Freelance Editor & Journ, \| 12/11/2018 Two of the key machine-to-machine (M2M) protocols that form the underpinnings of the Internet of Things are replete with vulnerabilities, design flaws and implementation issues that can leave enterprises and other organizations open to attacks and data breaches, according to a report by researchers at cybersecurity vendor Trend Micro. Post a Comment \| READ () Load More Articles + All Articles All Video All Slide Shows All Articles discussion board Ariella, 12/16/2018 7:48:00 PM Kubernetes Vulnerability Can Turn Containers Into Zombies Re: Re: Availability of the patch? @Larry well, there's some good news then. Post Your Reply Ariella, 12/16/2018 7:47:27 PM Phishing Emails, Trojans Continued to Proliferate in Q3 – Report Re: Poland I didn't know that country features so prominently. Anytheories on that? Post Your Reply batye, 12/15/2018 2:04:49 AM Google Chrome 71: Bugs Squashed & News Ways to Block 'Abusive Experiences' Re: Re: Webkit, Blink, Gecko or..? @mhhfive with technology you never know as some developers keep trying... Post Your Reply Susan Fourtané , 12/12/2018 1:26:06 AM Feds Charge 8 in Large-Scale Ad Fraud & Botnet Scheme Re: Re: Three out of eight Glup. The link didn't work for some reason. I searched on Youtube and saw the cop's ear scene. You never know when fiction is taken from reality or when reality is taken from fiction. Tarantino's movies are always quite, well, like that. Post Your Reply Susan Fourtané , 12/10/2018 6:38:19 PM Quora Breach Hits 100M User Accounts Containing Highly Personal Data Re: Re: No "real name" requirement at Quora? Hmmm. Yes. Like telling you now I have this super cool, super strong secret encryption system but I am not telling you how it works. I don't think that not specifying means admitting it's not using strong encryption, though. Hard to tell. Perhaps... Post Your Reply mhhfive, 12/10/2018 1:28:33 PM Google Chrome 71: Bugs Squashed & News Ways to Block 'Abusive Experiences' Re: Re: Webkit, Blink, Gecko or..? > "If MSFT ports their browser to MacOS or IOS as they say they are, that gives developers a way to write once and be on every platform." MSFT is definitely going to port Edge to every device it can... I think that's the whole point in... Post Your Reply LarryLoeb, 12/10/2018 12:01:35 PM Google Chrome 71: Bugs Squashed & News Ways to Block 'Abusive Experiences' Re: Re: Webkit, Blink, Gecko or..? @mhhfive If MSFT ports their browser to MacOS or IOS as they say they are, that gives developers a way to write once and be on every platform. That can't be ignored, even if the results are not quite as good as could be otherwise obtained. Post Your Reply mhhfive, 12/10/2018 11:30:41 AM Google Chrome 71: Bugs Squashed & News Ways to Block 'Abusive Experiences' Re: Re: Webkit, Blink, Gecko or..? > "This may mean the web will supplant desktop apps long term..." Given the state of "app stores" now, I'm not going to hold my breath for web apps. Steve Jobs almost fell into that trap, but then iOS apps did so well that I don't think... Post Your Reply LarryLoeb, 12/10/2018 7:26:59 AM Google Chrome 71: Bugs Squashed & News Ways to Block 'Abusive Experiences' Re: Re: Webkit, Blink, Gecko or..? @mhhfive MSFT lost the browser wars. Open source won. This may mean the web will supplant desktop apps long term. Post Your Reply mhhfive, 12/10/2018 1:56:07 AM Google Chrome 71: Bugs Squashed & News Ways to Block 'Abusive Experiences' Re: Webkit, Blink, Gecko or..? There aren't that many ways to access the internet these days... Even Microsoft is giving up on developing its own browser engine. Post Your Reply mhhfive, 12/10/2018 12:15:39 AM Feds Charge 8 in Large-Scale Ad Fraud & Botnet Scheme Re: Re: Three out of eight Maybe you haven't seen Reservoir Dogs... It's pretty bloody and uses very foul language -- so watch the following clip not at work: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4W5KhfJHF_4 Post Your Reply Susan Fourtané , 12/9/2018 9:19:30 PM Feds Charge 8 in Large-Scale Ad Fraud & Botnet Scheme Re: Re: Three out of eight I think I've missed some movies. Who is Mr Pink? Post Your Reply Next 5 messages + All messages All messages Chat 8/31/2017 3:54:21 PM Voice of Security Radio: A Security Partnership with Machine Learning: Thank you! klogan453 Keeper 8/31/2017 3:51:19 PM Voice of Security Radio: A Security Partnership with Machine Learning: Well, it seems like Steve and I managed to answer everyone's questions in our conversation. So I'll say thanks once again to Steve Grobman, CTO of McAfee, for being such a wonderful guest here on Voice of Security Radio! Curt Franklin Keeper 8/31/2017 3:47:35 PM Voice of Security Radio: A Security Partnership with Machine Learning: Thanks. Sr.Contr61262 Keeper 8/31/2017 3:47:19 PM Voice of Security Radio: A Security Partnership with Machine Learning: Thanks for helping out, Daren! Curt Franklin Keeper 8/31/2017 3:45:59 PM Voice of Security Radio: A Security Partnership with Machine Learning: (On behalf of Steve Grobman) - Data science and computer science expertise is definately in high demand by the cyber security technology industry as well as many other industries that are using similar capabilities daren Keeper 8/31/2017 3:44:38 PM Voice of Security Radio: A Security Partnership with Machine Learning: (On behalf of Steve Grobman) - There is not a formal certificatio process.. most users don't need to understand the nuance of the technology which is generally built by technology product providers daren Keeper 8/31/2017 3:42:40 PM Voice of Security Radio: A Security Partnership with Machine Learning: And how are mainline security pros/machine learning pros certified, i.e. how do you lknow that the person you're hiring to help you knows what they're dcoing? Sr.Contr61262 Keeper 8/31/2017 3:39:20 PM Voice of Security Radio: A Security Partnership with Machine Learning: Steve, one question we didn't get to is that of skilled practitioners. I know that mainline security pros are in short supply and high demand: Is it even worse when it comes to machine learning pros in the security space? Curt Franklin Keeper 8/31/2017 3:37:01 PM Voice of Security Radio: A Security Partnership with Machine Learning: Since I was late - and again - really sorry, I don't even know what to ask. Feel free to ask a question or my behalf. Sr.Contr61262 Keeper 8/31/2017 3:33:59 PM Voice of Security Radio: A Security Partnership with Machine Learning: Well folks, now's the time to ask any questions we didn't get to in the audio interview. Steve will be here in just a moment -- what would you like to know? 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