The CERT Coordination Center and the Network Time Foundation announced on Monday the availability of NTP 4.2.8p9, which includes nearly 40 security patches, bug fixes and improvements.
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Office 365 Flaw Made Fake Microsoft Emails Look Legitimate
A flaw in Office 365 could have been exploited by attackers to send out malicious emails and make them look as if they were coming from a legitimate microsoft.com address.
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Pentagon Announces Vulnerability Disclosure Policy
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) announced on Monday that it has created a vulnerability disclosure policy that aims to provide guidance to researchers on how to disclose security holes found in the organization’s public-facing websites.
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Cloud Governance Fails Could Trigger Privacy Compliance Issues: Report
On average, an enterprise now uses 1,427 cloud services. Seventy-one percent of these are enterprise services, with the remainder being consumer services. The average employee actively uses 36 cloud services, including nine collaboration services, six file sharing services, and five content sharing services (such as YouTube).
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Talking Turkey about IoT Security
What’s worse than having to cook a Thanksgiving turkey? How about being forced to relegate the poor bird—or pieces of it—to a crock pot after discovering that your net-connected oven and wireless meat thermometer have both been hacked by crazy Cousin Constantine?
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Oracle Buys Cyber Attack Target Dyn
Oracle on Monday announced it is buying Dyn, a Web traffic management firm recently hit with a cyber attack that closed off the internet to millions of users.
Business software and hardware titan Oracle did not disclose financial terms of the deal to acquire US-based Dynamic Network Services Inc, or Dyn.
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Obama Says NSA Director a ‘Patriot,’ Looking at Agency’s Organization
US President Barack Obama on Sunday refused to say whether he was considering the dismissal of National Security Agency chief Admiral Michael Rogers, but suggested he was looking at how cyber defenses are organized.
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Intelligent Filters, the Modern Data Traffic Cop
Modern Networks Need Smart Filtering Tools that Boost Performance of Monitoring, Analytics and Security
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Symantec to Acquire LifeLock for $2.3 Billion
Information security giant Symantec said on Monday that it will acquire identity protection firm LifeLock for $2.3 billion.
Under the terms of the agreement, Symantec will pay $24 per share in a transaction financed with cash on hand and $750 million of new debt.
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Code Execution Flaws Patched in HDF5 Library
Researchers from Cisco’s Talos Vulnerability Development Team discovered a total of four code execution flaws in the HDF5 library. The issues were reported to the developer and patched.
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