Just three months after announcing that he would leave the firm he started, WhiteHat Security founder Jeremiah Grossman has joined endpoint security firm SentinelOne as chief of security strategy.
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Hello? Is It Metadata You’re Looking For?
When all is too much
It is all about about—
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Researchers Hack Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV
Hackers Can Disable Alarm on Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV Cars
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Uber Pays Researcher $10,000 for Critical Flaw
A security researcher earned $10,000 through Uber’s bug bounty program for reporting a critical authentication bypass vulnerability affecting a third party WordPress plugin.
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Did New York Fed Miss Red Flags in $81 Million Bangladesh Bank Theft?
The blame game over who should be held responsible for the bank thefts via SWIFT continues. Ecuador's Banco del Austro (BDA) has already launched action against Wells Fargo for releasing $12 million to accounts largely in Hong Kong, claiming it failed to respond to red flags in the transactions.
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100 Million Passwords For Sale From Russian Social Network VK
Last month it was LinkedIn (117 million passwords) and MySpace (427 million passwords). This weekend the same hacker, Tessa88@exploit.im, made available a further 100 million password credentials stolen from Russian social media site VK.
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Angler Exploit Kit Bypasses Microsoft EMET
Angler, currently considered the most sophisticated and most successful exploit kit, has been observed delivering Flash and Silverlight exploits capable of evading Microsoft’s Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET).
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High Severity DoS Vulnerability Patched in NTP
A new version of the Network Time Protocol daemon (ntpd) released last week by the NTP Project addresses several vulnerabilities, including a high severity issue introduced by a previous patch.
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Cerber Ransomware Morphing Every 15 Seconds
Malware authors are using various techniques to evade detection, and those operating the Cerber ransomware are now employing a server-side “malware factory” , researchers at Invincea reveal.
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Congress Probes Cyber Incidents at Federal Reserve
Congress has launched an investigation into the security posture of computer systems at the U.S. Federal Reserve, following series of reports that the banking unit detected more than 50 cyber breaches between 2011and 2015.
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