Facebook announced on Tuesday the availability of an osquery version that can be used by security teams to quickly identify and analyze threats on their Windows networks.
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Snowden Again Fails to Win No-extradition Pledge From Norway
A Norwegian court on Wednesday dismissed a fresh bid by fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden to win assurances he would not be extradited to the US should he come to Norway to collect an award.
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High Severity DoS Flaw Patched in BIND
Updates released this week by the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) for the DNS software BIND address two vulnerabilities, including a new high-severity issue that can be exploited remotely.
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I Got 99 Problems, But SWEET32 Isn’t One
Where does SWEET32 rank against other SSL vulnerabilities?
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Locky Ransomware Drops Offline Mode
Locky, one of the most prolific ransomware families this year, has changed its modus operandi once again by adopting a new extension that is appended to encrypted files.
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Cisco Cracks GozNym Trojan DGA, Sinkholes Botnet
An extensive analysis of the hybrid Trojan dubbed GozNym has allowed Cisco researchers to reverse engineer its domain generation algorithm (DGA) and start sinkholing botnets that rely on the malware.
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Spammers Increasingly Hijacking IPv4 Addresses
As new IPv4 addresses are more and more difficult to come by, spammers are increasingly hijacking existing IP address ranges for their nefarious purposes, Spamhaus researchers warn.
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U.S. Hacker Pleads Guilty to Stealing Nude Celebrity Photos
Chicago – A Chicago hacker who stole nude photos from the accounts of at least 30 celebrities pleaded guilty Tuesday in US federal court.
Under a plea agreement with prosecutors, Edward Majerczyk admitted to one count of "unauthorized access to a protected computer to obtain information."
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Microsoft Teams with Bank of America on ‘Blockchain’
Microsoft and Bank of America Merrill Lynch on Tuesday announced they are working together to make financial transactions more efficient with blockchain technology — the foundation of bitcoin digital currency.
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Apple Confirms Weakened Security in Local iOS 10 Backups
iOS 10 Allows for Brute Force Attacks of 6,000,000 Passwords Per Second to be Attempted on Local Backups
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