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A new approach to detecting compromised credentials in real-time  

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Last year the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) issued a statement to notify financial institutions about the growing trend of cyber attacks designed to steal online credentials. While this is certainly a big issue for banks and credit unions, concern about stolen credentials extends far beyond the financial services industry. Basically any organization with valuable data is at risk of an attack initiated with seemingly legitimate credentials.

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Researcher reveals remotely exploitable flaw in world’s most widely-used real-time OS

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A security researcher discovered a serious yet simple flaw in VxWorks, a real-time operating system for the Internet of Things, which an attacker could remotely exploit without needing any interaction with a user. The OS is used in everyday things like network routers to critical infrastructure as well in NASA’s Curiosity Rover on Mars and Boeing 787 Dreamliners.

Searching for VxWorks via Shodan reveals about 100,000 internet-connected devices running the OS, but VxWorks supposedly powers “billions of intelligent devices.” The researcher warned that the vulnerability “allows remote code execution on most VxWorks-based devices.”

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Unpatched TRENDnet IP cameras still provide a real-time Peeping Tom paradise

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Security is the reason to install a security camera, but if that live-streaming footage is made public for would-be criminals to study, then doesn’t pose a security risk? If a security camera is installed in a home, whether it is to watch the baby or the babysitter, if everyone who wanted to could also watch the surveillance footage as it happens, then isn’t that a privacy risk?
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Android 4.2′s security system features real-time app scanning – SlashGear

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Android 4.2′s security system features real-time app scanning
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Android's security system is opt-in. Users who download an app from a third-party source will be prompted the first time around to let Google check them for harmful behavior. The users can then opt-in by tapping “Agree,” or dismiss it and take the risk.
Android 4.2 includes new security system to help with malicious appsAndroidOS.in (blog)

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