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Meltdown and Spectre Updates Causing Problems for Some Users
- Meltdown & Spectre Patches Causing Boot Issues for Ubuntu 16.04 Computers
- Warning: Microsoft Fix Freezes Some PCs With AMD Chips
- Important: Windows security updates released January 3, 2018, and antivirus software
- “We’ll display this in red so it sticks out. Do not run the .reg file unless you’ve confirmed with your AV vendor that they’re compatible with the Meltdown and Spectre patches.”
- Intel Releases Linux CPU Microcodes To fix Meltdown & Spectre Bugs
- Qualcomm joins Intel, Apple, Arm, AMD in confirming its CPUs suffer hack bugs, too
- List of Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerability Advisories, Patches, & Updates + see the US-CERT advisory
- How to Protect Your Devices Against Meltdown and Spectre Attacks
- You could resort to running everything on Raspberry Pi’s ;) jaxenter.com/spectre-meltdown-not-raspberry-pi-140201.html
- And for the curious… Triple Meltdown: How So Many Researchers Found a 20-Year-Old Chip Flaw At the Same Time -
WPA3 announced
- With WPA3, Wi-Fi security is about to get a lot tougher
- WPA3 WiFi Standard Announced After Researchers KRACKed WPA2 Three Months Ago - MADIoT – The nightmare after XMAS
- The Week in Ransomware – January 5th 2018 – Slow For The Holidays
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Monero going after just about everything…
- New sophisticated Malware campaign Leveraging NSA Exploits to Mine Monero on Windows and Linux Systems
- Massive Brute-Force Attack Infects WordPress Sites with Monero Miners
- WebLogic Flaw Used to Install Monero Crypto Coin Miner + Hackers Make Whopping $226K Installing Monero Miners on Oracle WebLogic Servers
- Miner blacklist - Python-Based Botnet Targets Linux Systems with Exposed SSH Ports
- Hundreds of GPS Location Tracking Services Leaving User Data Open to Hackers
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Some news from December (worth mentioning):
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Stanford University executive leaves job after huge data breach
- Stanford U. official ousted after keeping quiet about huge exposure of sensitive data - Firewall Bursting: A New Approach to Better Branch Security
- Microsoft Word slams the door on DDEAUTO malware attacks
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Three More WordPress Plugins Found Hiding a Backdoor
- www.wordfence.com/blog/2017/12/backdoor-captcha-plugin/
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Stanford University executive leaves job after huge data breach
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