Weekend Update

A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.


Bomb Threats Emailed Around the World

12/13/2018 06:59 PM EST  Original release date: December 13, 2018

The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC), part of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA), is aware of a worldwide email campaign targeting businesses and organizations with bomb threats. The emails claim that a device will detonate unless a ransom in Bitcoin ...

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Weekend Update

A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.


Botnet of Infected WordPress Sites Attacking WordPress Sites

This entry was posted in Research, Wordfence, WordPress Security on December 5, 2018

The Defiant Threat Intelligence team recently began tracking the behavior of an organized brute force attack campaign against WordPress sites. This campaign has created a botnet of infected WordPress websites to perform its attacks, ...

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Weekend Update

A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.


Holiday Scams and Malware Campaigns

11/19/2018 09:18 PM EST Original release date: November 19, 2018

As the holidays approach, NCCIC reminds users to be aware of seasonal scams and malware campaigns. Users should be cautious of unsolicited emails that contain malicious links or attachments with malware, advertisements infected with malware, and requests for donations from fraudulent charitable organizations, ...

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Weekend Update

A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.


Passcodes are protected by Fifth Amendment, says court

You do not have to give your passcode to the police.  The courts say it amounts to self-incrimination.  The government isn’t really after the password, after all; it’s after any potential evidence it protects. In other words: fishing expedition.


ST15-003: Before You Connect a New Computer to the ...

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Weekend Update

A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.


Tiny Hardware Firewall VPN Client

Here are a couple of tiny, portable security devices that provide hardware firewall, VPN, and TOR capability.  Check them out.


FTC Releases Cyber Resources for Small Businesses

10/25/2018 09:15 PM EDT  Original release date: October 25, 2018

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ...

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Weekend Update

A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.


Serious D-Link router security flaws may never be patched

Six routers with serious security flaws are considered end of life (EOL) and may never be updated.  The D-Link models affected are the DWR-116, DWR-140L, DWR-512, DWR-640L, DWR-712, DWR-912, DWR-921, and DWR-111, six of which date from 2013, with the DIR-640L first appearing in 2012 and the DWR-111 ...

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Weekend Update

A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.


Symantec SSL Certificates No Longer Secure

If you have a Symantec certificate on your HTTPS website, Chrome 70 and Firefox 63 will both be disowning any web certificates signed by Symantec.  From this month forward, anyone with Chrome or Firefox who browses to a web page “secured” with a Symantec certificate will see an unequivocal warning insisting ...

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Weekend Update

A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.


MS-ISAC Releases Advisory on PHP Vulnerabilities

10/12/2018 06:37 PM EDT  Original release date: October 12, 2018

The Multi-State Information Sharing & Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) has released an advisory on multiple Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) vulnerabilities. An attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system.  NCCIC encourages users and administrators to review Continue Reading →

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Weekend Update

A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.


National Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Cybersecurity at Home

10/02/2018 06:32 AM EDT  Original release date: October 02, 2018

October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM), an annual campaign to raise awareness about cybersecurity. The National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) has published general tips to ...

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