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Infosec bits for week 21/18

- Roderick Mooi

  1. Check that your Adobe products have been updated (as always…) [The Register]
    - and if that’s not enough:
    - PDF exploit built to combine zero-day Windows and Adobe Reader bugs [SC Magazine]
    - www.welivesecurity.com/2018/05/15/tale-two-zero-days/
  2. Preventing and recovering from ransomware: No More Ransom project
    - www.nomoreransom.org/en/prevention-advice.html
  3. Mirai botnet adds three new attacks to target IoT devices (including routers and DVRs) [ZDNet]
  4. It only took five hours to close a critical vulnerability in Signal’s desktop client [Cyberscoop]
  5. Side-Channel Vulnerability Variants 3a and 4 (aka New variants on Meltdown and Spectre) [US-CERT]
  6. Google’s Selfish Ledger ideas can also be found in its patent applications [The Verge]
  7. Is your browsing safe against tracking?
    - panopticlick.eff.org/
    - browserleaks.com/
    - amiunique.org/