One of MWR InfoSecurity's Singapore based researchers, Yong Chuan Koh, recently published an advisory on a Microsoft Office vulnerability.
Despite MS now patching, I think the fact that it was being exploited in the wild makes it an interesting story. I asked Yong the following questions:
The British Security Industry Association (BSIA) has published revisions to two of its Lone Worker guides.
The revisions have been made to Form 144 – A Guide to Buying a Lone Worker Service and Form 288 – Lone Workers – An Employer’s Guide, to reflect recent changes in the Lone Worker services market.
Stephen Coty, chief security evangelist at Alert Logic has been mining the leaked data from the Ashley Madison breach and has discovered that over 14,000 government officials' information has been compromised. Please see below for commentary.
Security watchers have warned about a new class of DDoS amplification attack threat which only exists because too many users are failing to follow basic safeguards:
Improperly configured services such as DNS or Network Time Protocol (NTP) have been exploited to launch a string of DDoS attacks over the last couple of years, the most high-profile of which battered Spamhaus and buffeted internet exchanges back in March 2013. Over recent weeks, another service – Portmap – has become a vector of DDos attacks, US-based carrier Level 3 warned.
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