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From Zero–Day Exploits To Rampant 'Ransomware': How Advanced Targeted Attacks Evolved In Q2, 2017
ISBuzz News The second quarter of 2017 saw sophisticated threat actors unleash a wealth of new and enhanced malicious tools, including three zero–day exploits and two unprecedented attacks: WannaCry and ExPetr. Expert analysis of the last two suggests the code … |
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How advanced targeted attacks have evolved
IT-Online The second quarter of 2017 saw sophisticated threat actors unleash a wealth of new and enhanced malicious tools, including three zero–day exploits and two unprecedented attacks: WannaCry and ExPetr. Expert analysis of the last two suggests the code … |
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iOS users beware: You're the biggest target for mobile phishing attacks
TechRepublic … and 85% of organizations have been phished whether they know it or not. Phishing attacks on mobile devices is becoming increasingly common, the report says, and may even be the most pressing security issue of 2017, bypassing ransomware and other … |
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The Federal Communications Commission has told members of Congress that it won’t reveal exactly how it plans to prevent future attacks on the public comment system.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai and Democratic lawmakers have been exchanging letters about a May 8 incident in which the public comments website was disrupted while many people were trying to file comments on Pai’s plan to dismantle net neutrality rules. The FCC says it was hit by DDoS attacks. The commission hasn’t revealed much about what it’s doing to prevent future attacks, but it said in a letter last month that it was researching “additional solutions” to protect the comment system.
Democratic Leaders of the House Commerce and Oversight committees then asked Pai what those additional solutions are, but they didn’t get much detail in return.
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