- “Tomdep”-Malware: Symantec has discovered a worm-type threat which targets servers running Apache Tomcat.
- Brute force attack: Github faced a Brute force password-guessing attack. Github did a reset of passwords and personal access tokens and informed their users.
- Internet route hijacking: Renesys published a blog post about ‘Targeted Internet Traffic Misdirection’.
- LG Smart-TVs phone home: The british IT consultant Jason Huntley discovered that his TV talks to LG servers everytime he changes a channel – even after he disabled the ‘Collection of watching info’ option. LG says that’s not personal information.
- Forensics: Sandro Süffert published a comprehensive slideset on Memory Forensics for Windows, Mac and Linux.
- Awareness: The website eBanking – but secure is now also available in a smartphone optimized version.
- Ransomware: According to Microsoft, Ransomware is on the rise, especially in Europe.
German:
- Offenbar gab es einen Einbruch in das Netz des EU-Parlaments: Hacker konnten demnach ohne grossen Aufwand auf vertrauliche E-Mails und persönliche Dokumente zugreifen. Ein Grossteil der EU-Politiker verwendet immer noch Windows XP.
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