“Defense is attack, attack is defense, each being the cause and result of the other.” —
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EU Lawmakers See ‘Deficiencies’ in US Data Deal
Brussels – The European Parliament called Thursday on Brussels to pursue talks with Washington to remove "deficiencies" from a deal to curb government spying on the personal Internet data of EU citizens.
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2016 SecurityWeek CISO Forum to Take Place on June 1-2 at Half Moon Bay
BOSTON, MA – SecurityWeek’s 2016 CISO Forum will take place on June 1-2, 2016 at the Ritz Carlton, Half Moon Bay.
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PayPal Settles With Texas Over Venmo App Security Claims
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that Texas has entered into an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance agreement with PayPal over alleged privacy and security violations by Venmo, a company acquired by PayPal in 2013. Under this agreement, PayPal will pay $130,000 to the State of Texas, and a further $45,000 to the state Attorney General to cover attorneys' fees.
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Angler EK Malvertising Campaign Abuses Recent Flash Zero-Day
A recently patched Adobe Flash Player vulnerability is being abused in a new malvertising campaign that redirects users to the Angler exploit kit (EK), Malwarebytes researchers warn.
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Chrome 51 Patches 42 Security Vulnerabilities
Released on Wednesday in the stable channel, Chrome 51 patches 42 security vulnerabilities, including 23 flaws that have been disclosed by external researchers.
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Potent DDoS Attack Hits Managed DNS Provider NS1
For all of last week and continuing into this week, major DNS and traffic management provider NS1 suffered a continuing and complex DDoS attack from unknown attackers with unknown motivation.
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Data Analytics Rarely Leveraged to Detect Fraud
Proactive Data Analytics Accounts for Just 3 Percent of Fraud Detected
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“Wekby” Group Uses DNS Requests for C&C Communications
Palo Alto Networks researchers noticed that a China-linked advanced persistent threat (APT) actor has been using a piece of malware that leverages DNS requests for command and control (C&C) communications.
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Microsoft Office Flaw Exploited by Several APT Actors
An Office vulnerability patched by Microsoft last year has been exploited by several advanced persistent threat (APT) actors in operations aimed at organizations in Asia, Kaspersky Lab's Global Research and Analysis Team reported on Wednesday.
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