Security News > 2017 > July

Code Execution Vulnerabilities Patched in FreeRDP (Security Week)
2017-07-26 15:05

Researchers at Cisco’s Talos security intelligence and research group have discovered several potentially serious vulnerabilities in FreeRDP. The tool’s developers patched the flaws on Monday with...

Hacked Smart Fish Tank Exfiltrated Data to 'Rare External Destination' (Security Week)
2017-07-26 14:59

Insiders attached two Raspberry Pi devices to a corporate healthcare network to help divert staff to a phishing website to phish staff credentials. An internet-connected smart fish tank...

Mac 'Fruitfly' Infections More Numerous Than Believed (InfoRiskToday)
2017-07-26 13:33

Patrick Wardle of Synack Digs Into the Mysterious MalwareIt has been a fairly slow year for Mac malware. But a former NSA researcher has dug into the first Mac malware sample that was detected...

Secrets of successful threat hunters and SOCs (Help Net Security)
2017-07-26 13:27

McAfee has polled over 700 IT and security professionals from a diverse set of countries, industries, and organization sizes about the role of threat hunting and the evolution of the security...

Windows SMB Zero Day to Be Disclosed During DEF CON (Threatpost)
2017-07-26 13:00

Microsoft has said it will not patch a two-decade-old Windows SMB vulnerability, called SMBloris because it behaves comparably to the Slowloris attacks. The flaw will be disclosed and demonstrated...

2,227 Breaches Exposed 6 Billion Records in First Half of 2017: Report (Security Week)
2017-07-26 12:52

More than 6 billion records were exposed as as result of the 2,227 data breaches that were reported in the first six months of 2017, according to a new report from Risk Based Security. read more

Expected cyber threats over the next six months (Help Net Security)
2017-07-26 12:45

With recent large-scale cyber attacks signaling a growing front in destructive threats and business impact, a new midyear report from iDefense, part of Accenture Security, reveals how threat...

CrowdStrike launches malware search engine (Help Net Security)
2017-07-26 12:34

CrowdStrike launched CrowdStrike Falcon MalQuery, the first malware search and intelligence component of its CrowdStrike Falcon Search Engine for cybersecurity data. CrowdStrike has built the...

Chinese Police Arrest 11 Over Fireball Adware (InfoRiskToday)
2017-07-26 12:33

250 Million Infections of Click-Fraud Malware Tied to Digital Marketing AgencyPolice in Beijing have arrested 11 employees of a Chinese digital marketing agency on charges that they developed and...

Qualys CloudView to deliver continuous security of public cloud infrastructure (Help Net Security)
2017-07-26 12:30

Qualys announced CloudView, a new app framework in the Qualys Cloud Platform for comprehensive and continuous protection of cloud infrastructure, delivering InfoSec and DevSecOps teams a “single...