December 2014 – SWITCH Security-Blog

Happy Christmas to all of you!

Dear Reader!

The SWITCH Security Team wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Our blog will be taking a break for Christmas. We will be back in January with further exciting news and information from the world of IT security.

Thank you for your interest in our blog, we look forward to greeting you in 2015.

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IT-Security-Links #67

The Poodle bites again: PoodleTLS or CVE-2014-8730 is a new vulnerability that targets some TLS implementations. F5 and A10 networking equipment are affected.
Internet of things: What makes securing the Internet of Things (IoT) so different from securing other computing platforms?
OS X Yosemite likes to phone home. Here’s how you can work around it.
Lollipop’s security: Kaspersky took a look at Android 5.0 Lollipop’s security, specifically its corporate-oriented security features, and found quite a few.
No free lunch, just once more: A good blog-post about the dangers of public Wi-Fi.
Sony Pictures Hack: A few words from Bruce Schneier.
Magnitude exploit kit: SpiderLabs published an interesting blog article series about the Magnitude exploit kit.
Cloud Atlas: Do you remember ‘Red October’, a complex cyber-espionage operation targeting diplomatic embassies worldwide 2 years ago? ‘Cloud Atlas’ might be the successor.