Month: September 2016

MAT: Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit http://ift.tt/2crHefS MAT: Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit: http://ift.tt/2cZCwLD Vulnerabilities via Ecstatic Security http://ift.tt/1TuVnt9 September 15, 2016 at 03:03PM

Cisco drops patch for nasty WebEx remote code execution hole http://ift.tt/2cZ5QSh Cisco is warning admins to apply a patch for a critical WebEx vulnerability, one of nine fixed this week. The remote code execution flaw (CVE-2016-1482) could allow attackers to execute arbitrary commands on WebEx servers. Admins can only apply the patch and do not…

Akamai Q2 2016 report, the number of DDoS attacks has doubled in one year http://ift.tt/2crujL5 According to the Akamai Q2 2016 report, the number of distributed denial of service attacks has doubled over the last 12 months. The DDoS attacks continue to be privileged attack vectors for crooks, according to the last report published by Akamai…

Mamba: The new Full Disk Encryption Ransomware Family Member http://ift.tt/2cdWL72 A Brazilian Infosec research group, Morphus Labs, just discovered a new Full Disk Encryption (FDE) Ransomware this week, dubbed Mamba. Mamba, as they named it, uses a disk-level encryption strategy instead of the conventional file-based one. This may be just the beginning of a new…