Collaborate Disseminate
Blackhat and DEF CON both just wrapped, and Patch Tuesday was this week. We have a bunch of stories to cover today.
First some light-hearted shenanigans. Obviously inspired by Little Bobby Tables, Droogie applied for the vanity plate “NULL”. A year went by without any problems, but soon enough it …read more
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Network Detection & Response, ExtraHop
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This is your Shared Security Weekly Blaze for August 12th 2019 with your host, Tom Eston. In this week’s episode: My summary of last week’s BSides Las Vegas security conference, how a single text message to your iPhone could get you hacked,… Continue reading BSides Las Vegas, iMessage Exploit, 5G and Stingray Surveillance
Security News
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Evaluating Vendors
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Our interviews with Jeff Hudson the CEO of Venafi, Dr. Kimberlee A. Brannock and Michael Howard from HP, and Ben Bennett and Mark Hearn from Irdeto. For Full DefCon18 Playlist, go to: https://securityweekly.com/summercamp18 Visit http://securityweekly…. Continue reading Interviews: Venafi, Irdeto, and HP – Enterprise Security Weekly #16
A recap of the Malwarebytes’ team experience at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, including top trends, topics, and interesting discussions.
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This year’s Black Hat 2018 Arsenal List has been announced by @ToolsWatch, with the full list hereabouts. Enjoy, I know I will!
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A website belonging to an eatery currently making waves in the news has been compromised with SEO spam. We take a look at what’s happened, and explain what the hackers are up to.
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When Vitaly Kamluk, a security researcher with Kaspersky Lab, discovered a mysterious program named “Computrace” deeply burrowed into his colleagues’ computers, he expected to find an elite hacking group at the other end — something the Moscow-based cybersecurity firm is keenly familiar with. Instead, Kamluk had uncovered a flawed but legitimate tracking software program developed by a Canadian company, named Absolute Software, which had been apparently installed at the manufacturer level. Computrace — now known as LoJack For Laptops via a licensing agreement with the famous vehicle-tracking company — has been publicly documented as having security problems, based on multiple reports, which worried Kamluk because he knew someone could leverage the underlying program in an attack to gain remote access. “It was very alarming to find unauthorized instances of Computrace,” Kamluk told CyberScoop. “There was no explanation how those new private computers had Computrace activated … We contacted Absolute technical support and provided hardware serial numbers, as […]
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