Researchers at Dell SecureWorks and Palo Alto Networks have teamed up to analyze the Ramdo click-fraud malware, a threat that has been infecting computers around the world since late 2013.
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SecureWorks Prepares for $180 Million IPO
SecureWorks plans to offer 9 million shares in an upcoming initial public offering (IPO) at a price between $15.50 and $17.50 per share.
Combined with the underwriter’s option to purchase up to 1,350,000 additional shares, the IPO could net the company upwards of $181 million.
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ARRIS SURFboard Modems Plagued by CSRF Flaw
Several ARRIS SURFboard broadband cable modem models suffer from cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability that allows an attacker to reboot them without authentication.
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3 Steps to Thriving in One of Cybersecurity’s 1 Million Open Positions
Cisco's John Stewart believes there are roughly a million security role vacancies, and this gap is now officially a crisis. We are about a million brains and bodies short of what we need to plug the many growing holes that perforate our highly internetworked environments.
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Hacktivists Leak 43GB of Data From Syrian Government
A hacktivist group calling itself the Cyber Justice Group announced on Twitter that it has dumped 10GB of data from the Syrian government. The hackers left a message on Pastebin and dumped the data to file sharing site Mega. The data is compressed, and expands to a full 43GB.
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Cybercriminals Trick Qihoo 360 into Whitelisting Malware
Cybercriminals have come up with a clever way to deliver a piece of malware to users in China and ensure that it would not be detected by an antivirus solution.
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Malware Found in IoT Cameras Sold by Amazon
Time was when you could trust big names. Not any more – in fact 'big names' are increasingly targeted by the bad guys simply because we do tend to trust them. Amazon is just the latest.
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Malware Changes Router DNS Settings via Mobile Devices
Researchers have come across a piece of JavaScript malware that is capable of changing the DNS settings of home routers from mobile devices.
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Recruitment Challenges Continue to Plague Cyber Security
Recruitment remains a major problem for cyber security departments, and there seems to be no easy solution. One difficulty is that the issue is described in vague terms and throw-away statements: there's a skills shortage; there are too many vacancies and not enough candidates; cyber security isn't promoted as a worthwhile career in schools.
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Draft Encryption Bill Criticized by Experts
A leaked draft of an encryption bill proposed by Senate Intelligence Committee leaders Sens. Diane Feinstein and Richard Burr has been heavily criticized by experts for its technical flaws, contradictions, and potentially dangerous effects.
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