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Security News for the Week Ending December 28, 2018

FCC to Investigate Centurylink In an example of “can you believe this”,  Ajit Pai, who earlier this year said that the FCC can’t regulate Internet providers wants to investigate why Internet provider Centurylink had an outage today that affected 911 call centers across the country. Centurylink, who told people earlier today that if they had […]

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Malware Disguises Itself as Amazon Order Confirmation Email

Merry Christmas! The hackers, of course, do not take Christmas off and are working hard to ruin yours. Today’s story is about a very active spam campaign that is disguised as Amazon order confirmations.  The first stage of the campaign looks something like this with different subject lines: Notice that you have to click on […]

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Security News for the Week Ending December 21, 2018

Patches This Week Microsoft issued an emergency out of band patch for an Internet Explorer zero day bug that affects IE 9, 10 and 11 on Windows 7,8,10 and the related server versions.  The bug allows a hacker to remotely execute code by getting a victim to view a web page, HTML document, PDF or […]

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News Bites for the Week Ending December 14, 2018

Patches This Week Adobe’s December patch list fixed 87 separate bugs in Acrobat and Acrobat Reader.  39 of these are rated critical.  Last week they patched a critical zero day in Flash (Details here). More Spy Cams The other day I reported the the DEA was buying spy camera enclosures to hide inside of street […]

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NSA Says US Companies Losing Ground to Chinese on Cyber Attacks

Rob Joyce, long time NSA cyber executive, former special assistant to the President for cybersecurity, cybersecurity coordinator for the National Security Council and all around cyber guru says that we are in trouble. He said that Chinese cyber attacks have increased in recent months, targeting critical infrastructure. He says that he is worried that they […]

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