At least half a million routers and storage devices in dozens of countries around the world have been infected by a sophisticated botnet, in preparation for an alleged planned cyber attack on Ukraine.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Cisco has issued an urgent request to Cisco customers running specific releases of software on their Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) appliances to reboot their devices to prevent a device from hanging and stop passing traffic.
Cisco said its ASA and FTD devices are affected by a “functional software defect that will cause the device to stop passing traffic after 213 days of uptime” and that the issue is a result of a software regression bug introduced when addressing Cisco bug ID CSCva03607.
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Here’s what to expect from Microsoft in the July 2014 edition of Patch Tuesday, scheduled to ship on Tuesday 08 July 2014… 
Naked Security – Sophos
On Friday, security researchers at FireEye identified a new IE zero-day exploit hosted on a hacked U.S. website that is being used for targeted drive-by download attacks. The malware exploiting IE is injected directly into PC memory instead of being written to disk; the campaign has been dubbed Operation Ephemeral Hydra. While the U.S.
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