SAP this week released another set of monthly security updates to address various issues in its products, including five vulnerabilities in SAP HANA, one of which was rated Hot News.
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Adobe Patches Vulnerabilities in Flash, Shockwave
Security updates released by Adobe on Tuesday patch seven vulnerabilities in Flash Player and one vulnerability in Shockwave Player.
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HSBC Users Targeted With Fake Security Software
A recent spam campaign impersonating UK-based banking giant HSBC is attempting to distribute malware masquerading as legitimate security software, Symantec researchers warn.
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Facebook Bans Developers From Using Data for Surveillance
Facebook this week announced an update to its platform policies to ban developers from using data obtained from the company to build surveillance tools.
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Google Blocks Sophisticated Android Botnet
Google recently discovered and blocked a sophisticated fraud botnet that was being distributed through multiple channels and which employed several methods to avoid detection.
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Home Depot to Pay Banks $25 Million for 2014 Breach
Home Depot has agreed to pay $25 million to the financial institutions affected by the massive data breach suffered by the retailer in 2014, when cybercriminals managed to steal email addresses and payment card data belonging to more than 50 million customers.
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Malware Evolution Calls for Changing View of the Lifecycle
Experienced Security Teams Know that Every Piece of Malicious Software Cannot be Caught in Advance
Over the past five years, there have been multiple new entrants into the endpoint protection space, looking to provide better defenses against increasingly subtle and sophisticated malware.
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Financial Attackers as Sophisticated as Nation-State Groups: FireEye
Financially motivated attackers have become just as sophisticated as threat actors sponsored by nation states, according to the 2017 M-Trends report published on Tuesday by FireEye-owned Mandiant.
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VMware Preparing Patches for “Catastrophic” Struts Flaw
VMware informed customers on Monday that the recently disclosed Apache Struts2 vulnerability, which has been exploited in the wild over the past week, affects several of its products.
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Enterprises Infected By Pre-installed Android Malware
Android devices containing pre-installed malware were recently discovered on 38 mobile devices belonging to two large companies, according to security firm Check Point.
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