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Democrat Mail Bomb Scares Are a Perfect Misinformation Storm
News of apparent mail bombs targeting prominent Democrats and CNN give way to a deluge of false reports, partisan finger-pointing, and bad-faith conspiracy theories online...
44% of Security Professionals Spend More than 20 Hours a Week Responding to Alerts
As the global cybersecurity climate continues to heat up, so too do the subsequent levels of alert fatigue IT security professionals have to deal with. A recent survey by Imperva reveals that nine percent of UK security teams battle with over five million alerts each week. Five million, just let...
Survey: 44% of Security Professionals Spend More than 20 Hours a Week Responding to Alerts
As the global cybersecurity climate continues to heat up, so too do the subsequent levels of alert fatigue IT security professionals have to deal with. A recent survey by Imperva reveals that nine percent of UK security teams battle with over five million alerts each week. Five million, just let...
How the Kavanaugh Information War Mirrors Real Warzones
Opinion: From using open source intelligence to spreading false reports to brazenly rewriting history, social media warriors on both sides of the controversy are taking a page from Russia...
Partnering with the industry to minimize false positives
Every day, antivirus capabilities in Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection Windows Defender ATP protect millions of customers from threats. To effectively scale protection, Windows Defender ATP uses intelligent systems that combine multiple layers of machine learning models, behavior-based...
Bitfi research receives Pwnie Award for ‘lamest vendor response’
The Pwnie Awards is an annual celebration of the achievements of security researchers and the security community. It's also an opportunity to roast vendors for lame responses to security concerns. The ceremony took place last night, August 8th, 2018 in Las Vegas at the BlackHat USA security...
Explained: What is big data?
If the pile of manure is big enough, you will find a gold coin in it eventually. This saying is used often to explain why anyone would use big data. Needless to say, in this day and age, the piles of data are so big, you might end up finding a pirate’s treasure. How big is the pile? But when is t...
Dirhunt - Find Web Directories Without Bruteforce
Dirhunt is a web crawler optimize for search and analyze directories. This tool can find interesting things if the server has the "index of" mode enabled. Dirhunt is also useful if the directory listing is not enabled. It detects directories with false 404 errors , directories where an empty inde...
AZL-6453 CVE-2018-13420 affecting package gperftools for versions less than 2.7-4
Google gperftools 2.7 has a memory leak in mallocextension.cc, related to MallocExtension::Register and InitModule. NOTE: the software maintainer indicates that this is not a bug; it is only a false-positive report from the LeakSanitizer program...
CVE-2018-13420
Google gperftools 2.7 has a memory leak in mallocextension.cc, related to MallocExtension::Register and InitModule. NOTE: the software maintainer indicates that this is not a bug; it is only a false-positive report from the LeakSanitizer program...
DEBIAN-CVE-2018-13420
Google gperftools 2.7 has a memory leak in mallocextension.cc, related to MallocExtension::Register and InitModule. NOTE: the software maintainer indicates that this is not a bug; it is only a false-positive report from the LeakSanitizer program...
UBUNTU-CVE-2018-13420
Google gperftools 2.7 has a memory leak in mallocextension.cc, related to MallocExtension::Register and InitModule. NOTE: the software maintainer indicates that this is not a bug; it is only a false-positive report from the LeakSanitizer program...
CVE-2018-13420
Google gperftools 2.7 has a memory leak in mallocextension.cc, related to MallocExtension::Register and InitModule. NOTE: the software maintainer indicates that this is not a bug; it is only a false-positive report from the LeakSanitizer program...
PT-2018-11815 · Google +2 · Gperftools +2
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Google gperftools version 2.7 Description: The issue is related to a memory leak in malloc extension.cc, specifically involving MallocExtension::Register and InitModule. However, the software maintainer disputes this, stating it is a...
Keeping False Positives in Check
In 2017, seven out of ten organizations said their security risks increased significantly, according to a Ponemon Institute study. This is no surprise given that last year organizations suffered the largest ransomware outbreak in history WannaCry and vulnerabilities such as Meltdown and Spectre...
Android Gets New Anti-Spoofing Feature to Make Biometric Authentication Secure
Google just announced its plan to introduce a new anti-spoofing feature for its Android operating system that makes its biometric authentication mechanisms more secure than ever. Biometric authentications, like the fingerprint, IRIS, or face recognition technologies, smoothen the process of...
Olympic Destroyer Returns to Target Biochemical Labs
Olympic Destroyer, the threat actor that caused a crippling sabotage attack on the networks supporting this year’s Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, has resurfaced with a spy campaign – and with a wider target range. The new campaign began last month and is ongoing, employing spear-phishi...
Hackers Who Hit Winter Olympics 2018 Are Still Alive and Kicking
Remember the 'Olympic Destroyer' cyber attack? The group behind it is still alive, kicking and has now been found targeting biological and chemical threat prevention laboratories in Europe and Ukraine, and a few financial organisation in Russia. Earlier this year, an unknown group of notorious...
electron-packager Man-in-the-Middle Attack Vulnerability
electron-packager is a tool for packaging applications into executables based on different platforms. A security vulnerability exists in electron-packager versions 5.2.1 through 6.0.0 and 6.0.0 through 6.0.2, which stems from the '--strict-ssl' command line option being set by default to 'false '...
