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Wormable stored XSS on WordPress.org, a security lapse revealed private complaints from Silicon Valley employees, hackers hijack thousands of Chromecasts to warn of latest security bug, a linting tool for checking accessibility, speed, and security, ho… Continue reading WordPress, Silicon Valley, and Hijacking – Application Security Weekly #45
This November marked the 10-year anniversary of Conficker, a fast-spreading worm targeting Microsoft systems that went on to claim one of the highest levels of infection in history. Millions of computers were eventually infected by the worm, including … Continue reading Conficker: A 10-year retrospective on a legendary worm
WatchGuard Technologies’ information security predictions for 2019 include the emergence of vaporworms, a new breed of fileless malware with wormlike properties to self-propagate through vulnerable systems, along with a takedown of the internet itself … Continue reading Vaporworms: New breed of self-propagating fileless malware to emerge in 2019
In this podcast, Andrew Ginter, VP of Industrial Security at Waterfall Security Solutions, and Edward Amoroso, CEO of TAG Cyber, talk about how the traditional focus of most hackers has been on software, but the historical focus of crime is on anything… Continue reading Maliciuos hacking activity increasingly targeting critical infrastructure
Check Point revealed a significant increase in attacks using the Ramnit banking trojan. Ramnit has doubled its global impact over the past few months, driven by a large scale campaign that has been converting victim’s machines into malicious proxy serv… Continue reading Banking Trojan attacks increase, large scale Ramnit campaign impacts organizations worldwide
Unknown attackers have compromised 40,000+ servers, networking and IoT devices around the world and are using them to mine Monero and redirect traffic to websites hosting tech support scams, malicious browser extensions, and so on. The campaign, dubbed… Continue reading Traffic manipulation and cryptocurrency mining campaign compromised 40,000+ machines
US-CERT has released a new technical alert on malware used by Hidden Cobra, a threat actor whose activities they believe to be directed by the North Korean government. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (F… Continue reading DHS, FBI warn about malware tied to North Korean threat actor
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Quartz: In a Peer J study published on May 22, “Giant worms chez moi!” zoologist Jean-Lou Justine of the Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, entomologist colleagues, and Pierre Gros, outline a discove… Continue reading Giant Predatory Worms Are Invading France
Larval zebrafish, Drosophila (fruit fly), and Caenorhabditis elegans (roundworm) have become key model organisms in modern neuroscience due to their low maintenance costs and easy sharing of genetic strains across labs. However, the purchase of a commercial solution for experiments using these organisms can be quite costly. Enter FlyPi: a low-cost and modular open-source alternative to commercially available options for optogenetic experimentation.
One of the things that larval zebrafish, fruit flies, and roundworms have in common is that scientists can monitor them individually or in groups in a behavioural arena while controlling the activity of select neurons using optogenetic (light-based) …read more
Larval zebrafish, Drosophila (fruit fly), and Caenorhabditis elegans (roundworm) have become key model organisms in modern neuroscience due to their low maintenance costs and easy sharing of genetic strains across labs. However, the purchase of a commercial solution for experiments using these organisms can be quite costly. Enter FlyPi: a low-cost and modular open-source alternative to commercially available options for optogenetic experimentation.
One of the things that larval zebrafish, fruit flies, and roundworms have in common is that scientists can monitor them individually or in groups in a behavioural arena while controlling the activity of select neurons using optogenetic (light-based) …read more
