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Network Security

Issued by: CIO Security

NTP fixes denial-of-service flaws

The Network Time Foundation’s Network Time Protocol Project has patched multiple denial-of-service vulnerabilities with the release of ntp-4.2.8p9. The last update to the open source protocol used to synchronize computer clocks was in June. “NTP users are strongly urged to take immediate action to ensure that their NTP daemons are not susceptible to being used…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Help Net Security

Researchers set to work on malware-detecting CPUs

Adding hardware protections to software ones in order to block the ever increasing onslaught of computer malware seems like a solid idea, and a group of researchers have just been given a $275,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to help them work on a possible solution: malware-detecting CPUs. This project, titled “Practical Hardware-Assisted Always-On…