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Cisco Patches Critical IOS Flaw

More than a month after details emerged of a critical remote code execution vulnerability in hundreds of models of Cisco switches, the company has released a patch to close the hole. The vulnerability is one of the many bugs that was identified when the so-called Vault 7 documents were released in March. The documents are […]

Phone Fraud by Industry | The Retail Story

Throughout 2016, Pindrop analyzed more 700 million phone calls – many of them coming from companies that receive more than 40 million calls per year. Phone fraud has increased 113% cross-industry from 1 in every 2,000 calls in 2015 to 1 in every 937 calls in 2016. While all industries are experiencing increased fraud rates, […]

New Report Highlights Increasing Strength of DDoS Attacks

The number and intensity of DDoS attacks have sharply increased in the first quarter of 2017, according to a new report by Neustar. There have been more than twice as many DDoS attacks of more than 50 Gbps in the past year as compared to 2016, with 45 percent of attacks being more than 10 Gbps and 15 percent being at least […]

Notorious Snake Malware Set to Target OS X

Researchers have discovered a version of the infamous Snake cyber espionage tool used by Russian-speaking attackers that is designed to infect Macs. Snake, also known as Turla, is a sophisticated piece of malware that’s been used for several years by an APT group linked to Russia. The attackers have targeted government agencies and other victims in […]

IBM Says It Shipped Malware-Infected USB Drives

IBM shipped USB flash drives containing malware to an unknown number of customers. The company said the malware is automatically copied to any machine that the drive is connected to, and is warning customers to destroy the drives. IBM hasn’t released many details on the incident or how the malware got onto the drives. But […]

Intel Patches Ancient Critical Processor Bug

Intel has released a fix for a vulnerability that’s been sitting undiscovered in the firmware for some of its processors for nearly a decade. The vulnerability could allow an attacker to run arbitrary code on affected machines. The newly patched bug is found in the firmware for some of the processors Intel makes for business-class […]

Strike Force Recommends Narrow Use of Robocall-Blocking Tool

Carriers that have tested one of the more promising methods for blocking robocalls–known as a Do Not Originate list–say that the system is effective, but should only be used in narrow, carefully selected circumstances to prevent false positives and stop fraudsters from moving to legitimate numbers. The idea behind the DNO list concept is to define […]