Spoofed emails could easily land in user’s Gmail inboxes without even warning them of suspicious activity, security researchers have discovered.
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Kelihos Becomes King of the Malware Mountain
The beginning of 2017 has brought a series of changes on the malware charts, as the Kelihos botnet managed to climb to the top position, while the Conficker worm dropped to fourth on the list.
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Hackers Targeted Italy Foreign Ministry, Russia Accused
Rome – Italy's foreign ministry was attacked by hackers last year, a diplomatic source told AFP on Friday, amid reports that Russia could be to blame.
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Potentially Serious DoS Flaw Patched in BIND
A potentially serious denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability was patched this week by the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) in the BIND DNS software.
The flaw, tracked as CVE-2017-3135, affects BIND 9.8.8, all 9.9 releases since 9.9.3, all 9.10 releases, and all 9.11 releases.
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Research Unearths 5 Secrets for Higher Performing CISOs
IANS Research has developed a model designed to help chief information security officers to maintain their inherent promise: that is, "to safeguard critical assets across space and time."
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Demisto Raises $20 Million to Help Enterprises Fight Alert Fatigue
Demisto, a Cupertino, Calif.-based maker of software that helps Security Operations teams fight “alert fatigue” and reduce the time to respond to a breach, announced on Thursday that it has closed a $20 million Series B round of funding.
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Israeli Startup Empow Raises $9 Million for U.S. Expansion
Israeli startup Empow Cyber Security announced on Thursday that it has raised $9 million in a Series A funding round. $8 million has come from private investors and $1 million from the Office of the Chief Scientist at the Israel Ministry of Economy. The money will be used primarily to expand the company's operations in North America.
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Windows Trojan Spreads Mirai to Linux Devices
Mirai, the Linux-based malware that ensnared hundreds of thousands of Internet of Things (IoT) devices for launch one of the largest distributed denial of service (DDoS) botnets out there, has a Windows variant as well.
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Who Should be Using Strategic and Operational Cyber Threat Intelligence
Cyber threat intelligence traditionally has been created for and used by a small group of individuals, many having come out of the US intel community. But with all the buzz around threat intelligence, it’s important for folks to understand the value and use cases that extend well beyond this group.
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WordPress Flaw Exploited for Remote Code Execution
A recently patched WordPress vulnerability has been used to deface roughly 1.5 million web pages and experts have also started seeing attempts to exploit the flaw for remote code execution.
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