This fall, millions of students entered colleges or universities for the first time. As final exams approach, many are coming to the realization that a syllabus is more than an email you skip over or delete. The assignments, lecture schedule, labs – you name it – are key to your success in class. For those who haven’t adequately prepared, winging it will only take them so far.
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Mozilla Patches Firefox Zero-Day Exploited to Unmask Tor Users
Security updates released on Wednesday for Firefox and the Tor Browser address a zero-day vulnerability exploited to deanonymize Tor users. Evidence suggests that the exploit may have been used by a law enforcement agency in an operation targeting child pornography distributors.
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“Gooligan” Android Malware Steals Authentication Tokens to Hack User Accounts
"Gooligan" Android Malware Steals Authentication Tokens to Compromise More Than 1 Million Google User Accounts
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“PluginPhantom” Android Trojan Uses Plugins to Evade Detection
A recently discovered Android Trojan dubbed “PluginPhantom” abuses a legitimate plugin framework to update itself and evade static detection, Palo Alto Networks reported on Wednesday.
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FireEye Unveils Helix Platform to Streamline Security Operations
Just weeks after launching new cloud-based network security and threat intelligence offerings, FireEye on Tuesday unveiled a new platform designed to help customers efficiently integrate and automate security operations functions.
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Thousands of UK National Lottery Accounts Breached
Camelot, the company that runs the UK National Lottery, announced today that approximately 26,500 customer accounts had been fraudulently accessed. The activity was discovered on Monday.
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Cerber Ransomware Delivered via Google, Tor2web
A new version of the Cerber ransomware has been delivered by cybercriminals using spam emails, Google links, the Tor2web proxy service and malicious macro-enabled Word documents.
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Europol Red-faced as Terror Data Appears Online
Europol admitted on Wednesday that confidential information on terror investigations were accidentally put online, as it launched a probe into what it called a "very serious incident."
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Flaws Found in Emerson DeltaV, Liebert Products
ICS-CERT has published three advisories describing vulnerabilities discovered in Emerson’s DeltaV and Liebert products by the company and outside researchers.
The most serious of the flaws, rated “high severity” with a CVSS score of 7.5, was identified by Evgeny Ermakov from Positive Technologies.
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Cyber Defenders Must Focus on the Ends, Not the Means
Too Many Organizations Focus on the Means, Rather than the Ends
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