Education Gets an 'F' for Cybersecurity
The education sector falls last on a list analyzing the security posture of 17 US industries, SecurityScorecard reports.
Source: Dark Reading –
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The Economics Fueling IoT (In)security
Attackers understand the profits that lie in the current lack of security. That must change.
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Taylor Swift may have used undercover facial recognition to spot stalkers at gigs
Look What You Made Her Do
Source: The Inquirer – Taylor Swift may have used undercover facial recognition to spot stalkers
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Brute Force Attacks Conducted by Cyber Actors
In a traditional brute-force attack, a malicious actor attempts to gain unauthorized access to a single account by guessing the password. This can
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87 Vulnerabilities Fixed With Adobe December Security Update for Acrobat and Reader
Adobe released security updates that fix 87 vulnerabilities with Acrobat and Reader for MacOS and Windows. The update covers both the critical and important
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15,779 Indian Websites Hacked During This Year (Jan – Nov) – CERT-India
India Computer Emergency Response Team reported over 15779 Indian websites hacked during Jan-Nov 2018 and this year less breaches were reported when compared
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Microsoft Released Security Updates & Fixed 39 Vulnerabilities Including Active Zero-day
Microsoft released security updates under December Patch Tuesday and fixed several vulnerabilities that affected various Microsoft products. There are 39 vulnerabilities were addressed
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Worst Password Blunders of 2018 Hit Organizations East and West
Good password practices remain elusive as Dashlane’s latest list of the worst password blunders can attest.
Source: Dark Reading – Threat Intelligence
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Hackers Actively Exploiting the Recently Patched Windows kernel Zero-day Vulnerability in Wild
Threat actors exploiting the recently patched Windows Kernel Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (CVE-2018-8611) that allows attackers to run arbitrary code in kernel mode and
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Vuln: QEMU CVE-2018-16867 Directory Traversal Vulnerability
QEMU CVE-2018-16867 Directory Traversal Vulnerability
Source: Security Focus – Vuln: QEMU CVE-2018-16867 Directory Traversal Vulnerability
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