Afraid of missing important security news during the week? We’re here to help! Every week we put together a curated list of all important security news in one place, for your reading pleasure. Enjoy!
For the less technical
- Story of journalist impersonification by FBI
- Ex-admin used backdoors to spy on emails
- American farmers hacking their tractors
- Excellent story about the famous Russian cybercriminal Slavik
- Hackers threatening to remotely wipe lots of iPhones
- Lithuanian con artist scams two US tech giants out of $100 million
- Huge money laundering scheme unveiled
- Story of a drug dealer OPSEC fail
- USA reducing privacy protections
For the more technical
- SIEM rooting
- PWN2OWN 2017 results
- Oracle’s MySQL 5.5 and 5.6 vulnerability
- New Mimikatz version
- Hundreds of Cisco switch models vulnerable
- Battery status as a privacy risk
- Windows session hijacking
- Sniping cookies with XSS
- Stealing Messenger.com Login Nonces
- Adium RCE
- PoC||GTFO 14
- Randomized MAC address analysis
- Google Nest vulnerabilities
- RCE in Moodle
- Analysis of a Trump-related email server
- Necurs starts pump-and-dump campaigns
- Microsoft Word vulnerabilities
- FAME – malware analysis platform
- Malicious Office file targeting both Windows and OS X
- How network defenders operate
- Abusing Android Plugin Frameworks
- Google questions Symantec’s SSL certificate issuing process
- Symantec’s answer
- AndroidForums.com incident
- Targeted attacks against Saudi Arabia
- About the connected cars’ security
- LastPass security architecture under fire
- New Wikileaks documents
- Agentless RAT in PowerShell
- El Machete threat analysis
- Winnti abuses GitHub as C&C
- Third party app stores in iOS App Store
- RCE in SAP GUI
- Malformed RTF files defeat security mechanisms
- How much does a DDoS attack cost
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