Microsoft Publishes White Papers on Incident Response and Shared Responsibility for Azure Cloud Customers
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VMware Patches Critical Vulnerability
VMware released updates for several of its products on Thursday to address a critical vulnerability.
The VMware Client Integration Plugin (CIP) provides access to a virtual machine’s console in the vSphere Web Client, and allows users to connect virtual devices that reside on a client computer to a virtual machine.
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New EU General Data Protection Regulation Affects Multinational Companies
The General Data Protection Regulation is now, effectively, law. Businesses have 730 days from official publication (expected to be in June) to comply. It would be a mistake to think that this is just a European issue: it will affect every business throughout the world that holds or uses European personal data.
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California Quietly Drops Bill Requiring Phone Decryption
The California Assembly Bill 1681 was quietly dropped this week without a vote. The bill would have authorized $2,500 penalties for phone manufacturers and operating system providers if they do not comply with court orders to decrypt phones. In effect, it would force phone providers to include a backdoor or face repeated fines.
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Hacker Group Disrupts Video Game Service in DDoS Attack
“Lizard Squad” Knocks Video Game Servers of Blizzard Entertainment Offline
Servers operated by Blizzard Entertainment went down yesterday following a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against the video game company,claimed by the Lizard Squad hacking group.
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Blackhole Exploit Kit Author Sentenced to Prison
Dmitry Fedotov, the Russian national who created the now-defunct Blackhole exploit kit, was sentenced this week by a Moscow court to seven years in prison.
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No Patches for QuickTime Flaws as Apple Ends Support on Windows
Apple will no longer release security updates for the Windows version of QuickTime, leaving two recently-discovered remote code execution vulnerabilities unpatched.
The announcement that QuickTime for Windows is being deprecated was not made by Apple. Instead, Trend Micro-owned ZDI learned of the company’s decision after Steven Seeley of Source Incite reported finding two serious flaws.
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Microsoft Sues U.S. Over Secret Warrants to Search Email
San Francisco – Software titan Microsoft on Thursday sued the US government, arguing that secret warrants to search people's email violate the US Constitution.
Microsoft filed the suit against the Justice Department in federal court in Seattle, near the company's headquarters in Redmond.
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Hybrid Trojan “GozNym” Targets North American Banks
Researchers at IBM Security have come across a hybrid Trojan that is a combination between the Nymaim dropper and the Gozi financial malware.
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Clever Techniques Help Malware Evade AV Engines
FireEye researchers have identified several pieces of malware that managed to go undetected by antivirus engines for extended periods of time by using some interesting techniques.
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