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Asus Router Flaws Disclosed by Several Researchers

Issued by: Security Week

Several security researchers and companies have recently disclosed the details of potentially serious vulnerabilities they discovered in the past months in various Asus routers. Fortinet reported on Tuesday that its researchers had found a vulnerability in some Asus routers that allows an authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges.

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Data Encryption: 4 Common Pitfalls

Issued by: Dark Reading

To maximize encryption effectiveness you must minimize adverse effects in network performance and complexity. Here’s how. Employing data encryption is a no-brainer, as it supports the defense-in-depth strategy that organizations must embrace to stop bad actors from accessing sensitive network files. However, outside of the extra layers of protection data encryption can provide, there are also tradeoffs…

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Attackers disrupt business operations through stealthy crypto mining

Issued by: Help Net Security

WannaMine, a Monero-mining worm discovered last October, is increasingly wreaking havoc on corporate computers. Either by slowing down computers or by crashing systems and applications, the crypto mining worm is, according to CrowdStrike researchers, seriously affecting business operations and rendering some companies unable to operate for days and even weeks.

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It’s 2018: Time to assess your cyberrisk

Issued by: Kaspersky Blog

What springs to mind when you hear the phrase: “The future’s already here”? It evokes thoughts of new technologies that are poised to make life easier, better, and safer — not modern cyberthreats. But so-called next-generation threats are already here, too. On February 20, within the framework of the European Summit on Information Security (TEISS…

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IoT Devices Fuel Complex DDoS Attacks: Report

Issued by: Security Week

The continuous use of compromised Internet of Things (IoT) devices to launch distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks has helped cybercriminals increase the complexity of their assaults, NETSCOUT’s Arbor Networks says. According to the company’s 13th Annual Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report (WISR), attackers focused on increasing complexity in 2017, and the exploitation of IoT devices…

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Gemalto Licensing Tool Exposes ICS, Corporate Systems to Attacks

Issued by: Security Week

A significant number of industrial and corporate systems may be exposed to remote attacks due to the existence of more than a dozen vulnerabilities in a protection and licensing product from Gemalto. Gemalto Sentinel LDK is a software licensing solution used by many organizations worldwide on both their enterprise and industrial control systems (ICS) networks….

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Safeguarding your biggest cybersecurity target: Executives

Issued by: CIO Security

Senior executives are among the favorite targets of malicious hackers and other bad actors, in part because they are more likely to hold valuable information — or have a high level of access to such data. That’s why it’s so important for organizations to make sure C-level officers and other top executives are adhering to…

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The role of trust in security: Building relationships with management and employees

Issued by: Help Net Security

Massive data breaches have become the new reality, and they confirm that one of the biggest challenges companies face when it comes to security: a company’s biggest shortcomings are often not apparent until data breaches or other emergencies occur. As a result, adequately preparing for the worst and getting employees at every level of the company to give security…