Here is the weekly roundup :
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Google’s Chrome Strikes Another Blow Against Flash
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Starting September 1, Google has actively paused Flash-based advertisements by default in its widely used web browser Chrome, increasing browser speed and security.
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New Banking Trojan Is the Best of Malware Put-Together, IBM Warns
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IBM’s security researchers have discovered a new banking Trojan that they claim is a ‘power patchwork’ of effective existing malware families – coming together.
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Popular Belkin Wi-Fi Routers Easily Hackable
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A popular model of Belkin’s Wi-Fi routers has several zero-day vulnerabilities, some of which are still unpatched, according to independent researchers.
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JailBroken Apple Devices Targeted by New Malware
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A malware named ‘KeyRaider’ contributes to the world’s largest iCloud hijack and is speculated to affect over 225,000 jailbroken Apple devices.
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A Sophisticated Gmail Phishing Scam Is Linked to Iranian Hackers
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Iranian hackers are actively trying ways to circumvent Gmail’s two-step verification system and infiltrate Gmail, with their targets being political dissidents and activists.
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Study Reveals Brazil Is a Big Target for Cyberattacks
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A recent study by Kaspersky Labs shows that Brazilian users are at a significantly higher risk of being targeted for cyberattacks than any other country in Latin America.
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Millions of Federal Data Breach Victims Still in the Dark
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The data breach that affected 21.5 million federal employees and contractors whose data was hacked are yet to be notified by the Govt., officials say.
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Interesting Reading From Around the Web:
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How A 1200-Year-Old Hacking Technique Can Already Crack Tomorrow's Encrypted Vaults
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Born in Baghdad, al-Kindi, known as ‘The Philosopher of the Arabs’, was the first director of the Library and Translation Academy at the House of Wisdom. He is credited as author of the oldest surviving document on cryptology, A Manuscript on Deciphering Cryptographic Messages. And in that manuscript was the kernel of an idea that is still taught in crypto classrooms today: the use of letter frequency statistics to unlock ciphers.
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OPM (Mis)Spends $133M on Credit Monitoring
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The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has awarded a $133 million contract to a private firm in an effort to provide credit monitoring services for three years to nearly 22 million people who had their Social Security numbers and other sensitive data stolen by cybercriminals. But perhaps the agency should be offering the option to pay for the cost that victims may incur in “freezing” their credit files, a much more effective way of preventing identity theft.
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Passwords Fail to Secure Data: LaunchKey
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Password-based authentication is no longer an effective way to meet the demands of modern information security. That’s a major finding of a recent survey from the Las Vegas-based LaunchKey, a provider of mobile authentication platforms.
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Meet LIFARS
Pavol Hetes, CISA, PMP
Pavol Hetes is an information technology expert with almost two decades of experience. He is an excellent project manager whose key skills include Project and Program management, Release Management, IT Audit, Financial Analysis, and more.
Featured Article:
States of deception: The 9 states with the highest rates of identity theft
A recent study revealed that some of the states have a much higher rate of identity theft than the rest. To see which states ranked the worst and some possible reasons behind this, read this list.
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Application Security
Application security is one of our most sought-after services. Our experts do not perform a simple vulnerability assessment or penetration testing. To prevent cyberattacks, you need to think like the hackers do. And that is precisely the approach we take and the reason why we are so successful in helping discover and fix gaps in security.
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ASIS/ISC2 2015
Our top experts, Ondrej Krehel and Paul Kubler, will be presenting two informative sessions detailing their hands-on experience with responding to data breaches and other emergency situations at this world-class joint conference in California.
September 28 - October 1, 2015, Anaheim, CA
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