Hackers who allegedly infiltrated the Bangladesh central bank were attempting to steal almost $1 billion from an account it held with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, but typos thwarted the full heist, officials said Friday.
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Patch for Serious Two-Year-Old Java Flaw Bypassed
Researchers discovered that a patch released more than two years ago by Oracle for a serious Java sandbox escape vulnerability can be easily bypassed.
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DROWN Vulnerability Still Unpatched by Most Cloud Services
A high severity vulnerability revealed last week that affects HTTPS and other services that rely on SSL and TLS has not been patched by most affected cloud services, according to a recent scan.
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Changing Cybersecurity Outcomes with Intelligence
Our modern world is strewn with cyber breaches, a proliferation of dangers, regional crises, political unrest, and dangerous threat actors – all at play against a backdrop of an over reliance on the Internet which was never designed to be the backbone of a global economy.
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Serious Flaws Patched in Cisco Modems, Gateways
Cisco released software updates this week to patch several high severity vulnerabilities in the company’s cable modems, residential gateways and security appliances.
A couple of serious flaws in Cisco’s residential gateways were reported by Kyle Lovett, and Chris Watts of Tech Analysis.
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“Libotr” Library Flaw Exposes Popular IM Apps
A researcher at security firm X41 D-Sec uncovered a serious vulnerability in the “libotr” library that can be exploited for denial-of-service (DoS) attacks and remote code execution.
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Three High Severity DoS Flaws Patched in BIND
The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) this week released updates for the DNS software BIND to address three high severity denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerabilities.
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Dridex Botnet Spreading Locky Ransomware Via JavaScript Attachments
The Dridex botnet operators have recently changed the delivery mechanism in their spam campaigns, as well as the payload, to deliver the Locky ransomware, researchers at Trustwave warn.
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US Argues for ‘Modest’ Apple Help in Attacks Probe
The Justice Department argued Thursday that compelling Apple to help unlock an iPhone in California is a modest demand which may turn up evidence of a terrorist attack.
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Adobe Patches Flash Zero-Day Under Attack
Adobe Issues Emergency Out-of-Band Patch For Flash Zero-Day Used in Targeted Attacks
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