Georgia Governor Vetoes Controversial Hack-Back Bill
The bill would have allowed companies in the state to perform offensive cyberactions in the face of an attack. Read More HERE…
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May Patch Tuesday Fixes Two Bugs Under Active Attack
In total, Microsoft’s May Patch Tuesday roundup included 68 security patches, with 21 listed as critical, 45 rated important and two listed low in severity. Read More HERE…
Sierra Wireless Patches Critical Vulns in Range of Wireless Routers
The flaws would leave the enterprise devices helpless to a range of remote threats, including the charms of the Reaper IoT botnet. Read More HERE…
Adobe Patches Critical Bugs In Flash Player, Creative Cloud
Adobe fixed critical vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player and Creative Cloud as part of its regularly scheduled May Security Bulletin, on Tuesday. Read More HERE…
“Equi-Facts”: Equifax Clarifies the Numbers for Its Massive Breach
As companies continue to install the vulnerable version of Apache Struts behind the breach, Equifax has filed a clarification statement. Read More HERE…
FBI: Cyber-Fraud Losses Rise to Reach $1.4B
Tech-support scams took off during the year, while whaling/business email compromise was the main threat, accounting for losses of more than $675 million. Read More HERE…
Romanian Hackers Extradited to U.S. over $18M Vishing Scam
The two have been arraigned in a Georgia district court on charges relating to an elaborate voice- and SMS-phishing (i.e., vishing/smishing) scheme. Read More HERE…
Report: Intel Facing New Spectre-Like Security Flaws
Intel may be facing as many as eight new Spectre-level vulnerabilities in its chips, a German magazine alleges. Read More HERE…
Pr0nbot is Back – and Evading Twitter Censors
A rapidly swelling botnet of Twitter accounts advertising “adult dating”-themed scam websites has at least 80,000 nodes to date. Read More HERE…
Abbott Addresses Life-Threatening Flaw in a Half-Million Pacemakers
A backdoor could be exploited to allow an attacker to manipulate the implants and cause heart problems and even death, Read More HERE…