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Will hospitals wake up to the threat of cyber crime after patient dies during a ransomware attack?

IT Governance

German prosecutors have since opened a homicide investigation into the incident , while the country’s cyber security agency, the Federal Office for Information Security, was recruited to get the hospital fully operational again. appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog. Bad luck or a ticking timebomb?

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Microsoft fixes CVE-2020-0796, the SMBv3 wormable bug recently leaked

Security Affairs

Microsoft has released security updates to address the CVE-2020-0796 vulnerability in SMBv3 protocol that could be exploited by vxers to implement “ wormable ” malware. On March 10, 2019, Microsoft accidentally leaked info on a security update for a wormable vulnerability in the Microsoft Server Message Block (SMB) protocol.

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Oracle issues emergency patch for CVE-2020-14750 WebLogic Server flaw

Security Affairs

Oracle issued an out-of-band security update to address a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-14750 , which affects several versions of Oracle WebLogic Server. According to Oracle, the issue was discovered thanks to the information provided by 20 organizations and security experts.

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Microsoft recommends Exchange admins to disable the SMBv1 protocol

Security Affairs

If you want to learn more about SMBv1 and why you should stop using it, I’d recommend reading this blog post published and updated by Ned Pyle.” “Microsoft publicly deprecated the SMBv1 protocol in 2014 and so we stopped installing it by default when using Windows Server 2016 1709 (RS3). ” continues Microsoft.

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SEC Announces Settled Charges Against First American for Cybersecurity Disclosure Controls Failures – Lessons Learned

Data Matters

In the Order, the SEC alleges that First American’s disclosures concerning the vulnerability were deficient because senior executives were not provided all available and relevant information, specifically that First American’s information security personnel had identified and failed to remediate the vulnerability months earlier in January 2019.

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Facebook is secretly using iPhone’s camera as users scroll their feed

Security Affairs

pic.twitter.com/B8b9oE1nbl — Joshua Maddux (@JoshuaMaddux) November 10, 2019. The iPhone users will never receive any notification from the device, Krause shared technical details in a blog post. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Note that I had the camera pointed at the carpet.

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Mirai code re-use in Gafgyt

Security Affairs

In this blog, we’ll take a look at some of the re-used Mirai modules , their functionality, and the Uptycs EDR detection capabilities of Gafgyt. Figure 7: Realtek Exploit inside binary (CVE-2014-8361). Figure 10: Malware programs hosted upon open directory. Some of the recent Gafgyt variants (e.g., Click to see larger version.).

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