Actionable Threat Intelligence Enables a Proactive Approach to Cybersecurity, with Connectivity to the Entire Security Footprint
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Isolation Based Security Provides Prevention and Enhances Incident Response
Careful Design of Network and System Security Architecture Can Substantially Enhance Security
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Four High Severity DoS Flaws Patched in BIND
Updates released on Wednesday by the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) for the DNS software BIND patch four high severity, remotely exploitable denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerabilities.
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Eight Vulnerabilities Patched in WordPress
Eight security flaws and 62 bugs have been addressed with the release of WordPress 4.7.1 on Wednesday. The latest update for the content management system (CMS) has been classified as a security release.
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Handling Classified Information: Lessons Learned
Can we Learn From the Blunders of U.S Officials on Their Handling of Classified Information?
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Italian Siblings Arrested Over Long-running Cyber Espionage Campaign
Italian siblings Giulio Occhionero and Francesca Maria Occhionero have been arrested in Rome, charged with conducting a long-running cyber espionage campaign against leading Italian politicians, businessmen and Masons.
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ZDI Paid Out $2 Million for Vulnerabilities in 2016
Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) published 674 advisories last year and paid out nearly $2 million to researchers who submitted vulnerabilities, the company said in its “2016 Retrospective” report.
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Powerful “Spora” Ransomware Lets Victims Pay for Immunity
A newly spotted piece of ransomware allows users not only pay to recover their encrypted files, but also for immunity from future attacks, Emsisoft security researchers warn.
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Hamas ‘Honey Trap’ Dupes Israeli Soldiers
The smartphones of dozens of Israeli soldiers were hacked by Hamas militants pretending to be attractive young women online, an Israeli military official said Wednesday.
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Shadow Brokers Now Selling Windows, AV Exploits in New ZeroNet Marketplace
The group calling itself “Shadow Brokers” has apparently decided to start selling Windows exploits and what appear to be anti-virus bypass tools on a BitTorrent-powered ZeroNet peer to peer web platform.
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