Quora added a new feature to "Views" that displayed data about what people are viewing on the web in the main Quora feed. User blacklash seems to have convinced Quora to remove it.
I recognize the polarization in Washington but I always believed that when it comes to national security, logic and common sense would always trump partisan politics. Now that I’ve been involved with cybersecurity legislation for the past 2 years, I realize how naïve and idealistic this belief is. Read more
Google has announced changes to its search algorithms, pushing down websites with several copyright take-down requests from the prime position in search results. Not everyone thinks this is a good idea.
This month, Microsoft issues nine bulletins that addresses a total of 15 vulnerabilities. Of the five bulletins rated Critical, three point to vulnerabilities found in core components in Windows. Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) and Internet Explorer version 6 to 9, both of which were updated in June, are again included in the critical-rated vulnerability list. [...]
Back in April, Apple came under fire for delaying an update to Java until the Flashplayer malware got loose.
Let's hope that's a thing of the past, with Oracle publishing Java for OS X directly, and promising patches for OS X at the same time that they come out on Windows.
During the last weeks of July, we received reports from customers that their services.exe files were being patched by an unknown malware. The patched services.exe, detected by Trend Micro as PTCH_ZACCESS (for 32-bit version) and PTCH64_ZACCESS (for 64-bit version), was verified to be a component of the SIREFEF/ZACCESS malware family. ZACCESS (also known as ZEROACCESS) [...]
Mike recently wrote about behavior design and social engineering. But what exactly does that mean when we look at the data from real attacks? Do we see a pattern in who is susceptible and who isn’t? I’m going to spend the next couple of blog posts looking at data from our real assessments to look [...]
Adobe and Microsoft each issued security updates today to fix critical vulnerabilities in their software. Adobe's fixes include a patch for a Flash Player flaw that is actively being exploited. Microsoft's Patch Tuesday release includes nine patch bundles -- more than half of them rated critical -- addressing at least 27 security holes in Windows and related software.