August Patch Tuesday includes blasts from the (recent) past
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Bys sMatt Kapko reports: Ianis Aleksandrovich Antropenko exemplifies the profile of a modern cybercriminal, yet, unlike many others who have faced strict prosecution for similar offenses, the Justice Department has granted him liberties rarely extended to such suspects. The 36-year-old Russian national was arrested almost a year ago in California for his alleged involvement in multiple……
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Bys sIn yet another piece of research, academics from Georgia Institute of Technology and Purdue University have demonstrated that the security guarantees offered by Intel’s Software Guard eXtensions (SGX) can be bypassed on DDR4 systems to passively decrypt sensitive data. SGX is designed as a hardware feature in Intel server processors that allows applications to be…
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Bys sGartner® doesn’t create new categories lightly. Generally speaking, a new acronym only emerges when the industry’s collective “to-do list” has become mathematically impossible to complete. And so it seems that the introduction of the Exposure Assessment Platforms (EAP) category is a formal admission that traditional Vulnerability Management (VM) is no longer a viable way to…
DarkWatchman, Sheriff Malware Hit Russia and Ukraine with Stealth and Nation-Grade Tactics
Bys sRussian companies have been targeted as part of a large-scale phishing campaign that’s designed to deliver a known malware called DarkWatchman. Targets of the attacks include entities in the media, tourism, finance and insurance, manufacturing, retail, energy, telecom, transport, and biotechnology sectors, Russian cybersecurity company F6 said. The activity is assessed to be the work…