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Oracle critical patch advisory addresses 284 flaws, 33 critical

Security Affairs

The advisory fixed the CVE-2016-1000031 flaw, a remote code execution (RCE) bug in the Apache Commons FileUpload, disclosed in November last year. The Commons FileUpload library is the default file upload mechanism in Struts 2, the CVE-2016-1000031 was discovered two years ago by experts at Tenable.

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Q&A: Why SOAR startup Syncurity is bringing a ‘case-management’ approach to threat detection

The Last Watchdog

SOAR, if you haven’t heard, is a hot new technology stack that takes well-understood data mining and business intelligence analytics methodologies — techniques that are deeply utilized in financial services, retailing and other business verticals – and applies them to cybersecurity. Demisto launched in May 2016.

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State Attackers Moving from Stealing Data to Social Meddling

Ascent Innovations

The new cyber intelligence report expects the monetary benefits will allure the use of crypto-mining malware and cryptocurrencies by cyber attackers this year. They look to steal credit card numbers from financial services & insurance companies or install malware on the critical systems used by healthcare companies.

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It’s time to think twice about retail loyalty programs

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

In this case, it looks as though the attackers had been on the Starwood network for somewhere around three years, mining out their reservations database (keep in mind that Marriott only acquired Starwood in 2016 ). Since in Tech we often travel “for a living”, I found in my bag an older Starwood preferred guest card. Not used in years.

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Federal Agency Data is Under Siege

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Of those organizations, 57 percent have been breached in the last year – a number that is three times the rate of just two years ago (in our 2016 report, 18 percent reported a breach within the last year, and in our 2017 report, 34 percent reported a breach within the last year).

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking APIs

ForAllSecure

Kent: I started calling friends of mine. I said, Do you have one of these things, and I got lucky that a friend of mine in San Francisco had one. Vamosi: Another industry that could be directly affected is financial services, with all the mobile banking applications that are becoming more common today. He told me.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking APIs

ForAllSecure

Kent: I started calling friends of mine. I said, Do you have one of these things, and I got lucky that a friend of mine in San Francisco had one. Vamosi: Another industry that could be directly affected is financial services, with all the mobile banking applications that are becoming more common today. He told me.