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Microsoft Word Zero Day – Confirmed Attacks

Microsoft released a zero-day advisory for Microsoft Word.  According to Microsoft, “At this time, we are aware of limited, targeted attacks directed at Microsoft Word

Computer & Network Security|Social Engineering>Phishing

Highly effective social engineering using Google Drive

Researchers at Symantec have identified an attack on Google Documents users using highly effective social engineering methods. This attack is so successful because the redirect

Research

News Brief – 03/13/14

Critical crypto flaw in Facebook’s WhatsApp for Android exposes chats Tread carefully when allowing apps access to features on your phone like access to the

Computer & Network Security>Microsoft|Computer & Network Security>Microsoft Security Bulletin

March 2014 Microsoft Security Bulletin Release

For this month’s round of patches Microsoft has released five new security bulletins, two of which are for critical vulnerabilities.  The first critical update is

Compliance > Privacy

Apple iOS and OS X Critical Vulnerability

Recently Apple released updates that contain a critical security patches that address flaws with SSL encryption which could allow attackers to intercept email and other communications

Information Security>Data Breach|Compliance>Privacy|Social Engineering|Computer & Network Security>Vulnerabilities

NBC Sochi Hack Report Fraudulent

UPDATED: Kyle Wilhoit, Senior Trend Micro Researcher, further confirmed that NBC misrepresented the ‘hacks’ in their video in his blog posts here and here and his

Computer & Network Security>Adobe|Computer & Network Security>Patches

Adobe Flash Player Critical Update

Adobe has released a critical patch to address a vulnerability that could allow an attacker to take control of an affected system. Release date: February 4,

Computer & Network Security>Adobe|Information Security>Data Breach|Compliance>Privacy

Breach Alert! Yahoo user data stolen

As evidence to why users should not use the same usernames and passwords across sites, it appears that data collected from recent breaches was used