Microsoft Patch Tuesday – August 2018
Microsoft have releated the August patches on Tuesday 14th August 2018. The following is a breakdown of the issues being
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Three Members Of The FIN7 Hacking Group Have Been Arrested
Three members of the prolific ‘FIN7’ hacking group have been arrested, the US Department of Justice announced this week. It
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Offline Cryptographic Attacks Targeting the Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 Protocol
On August 4th 2018, Jens Steube from the Hashcat project published an article introducing a new method to obtain cryptographic
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Nominations Open For The Security Serious Unsung Heroes Awards 2018
Do you know an individual or team that deserves recognition for going over and above the call of duty when
Read MoreFIN7 Advanced Persistent Threat Group – Indicators of Compromise
FIN7 is an Advanced Persistent Threat group that has attacked over one hundred organisations in the United States and Europe, including
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Social Engineering As A Malware Delivery Mechanism – Technical Support Fraud
We are all used to warnings about the need to keep security patches up-to-date in an effort to make our
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Used Connected Cars Need Disconnecting Before They Are Sold
Once upon a time you sold your car, handed over the keys, log book, MOT certificate and pocketed the cash
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Data Breach Suffered By Reddit
On Wednesday 1 August 2018, Reddit published information on its forum confirming that in June 2018, all data created on
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Let’s Encrypt Root Trusted By All Major Root Programs
As of the end of July 2018, the Let’s Encrypt root, ISRG Root X1, is directly trusted by Microsoft products. The
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Snapchat Source Code Leaked And Published On GitHub
Some of Snapchat’s source code was posted on GitHub, apparently this was obtained when the company did an update to
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