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April’s Patch Tuesday Brings Record Number of Fixes

Krebs on Security

Microsoft today released updates to address 147 security holes in Windows, Office , Azure ,NET Framework , Visual Studio , SQL Server , DNS Server , Windows Defender , Bitlocker , and Windows Secure Boot. “As far as I can tell, it’s the largest Patch Tuesday release from Microsoft of all time.”

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Bomb Threat, Sextortion Spammers Abused Weakness at GoDaddy.com

Krebs on Security

Your Web browser knows how to find a Web site name like example.com thanks to the global Domain Name System (DNS), which serves as a kind of phone book for the Internet by translating human-friendly Web site names (example.com) into numeric Internet address that are easier for computers to manage. ” SAY WHAT? 13, 2018 bomb threat hoax.

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A Defense-in-Depth Approach Could Stop the Next Big Hack in its Tracks

Webroot

An endpoint DNS solution could have stopped the Trojanized Orion version by refusing to resolve the domain names of the command-and-control servers, again disrupting the infection to the point that no real damage could be done. DNS security solutions are one way of addressing this risk. The “next one” will look different.

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French Firms Rocked by Kasbah Hacker?

Krebs on Security

HYAS said it quickly notified the French national computer emergency team and the FBI about its findings, which pointed to a dynamic domain name system (DNS) provider on which the purveyors of this attack campaign relied for their various malware servers. ‘FATAL’ ERROR.

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CosmicStrand: the discovery of a sophisticated UEFI firmware rootkit

SecureList

One of our industry partners, Qihoo360, published a blog post about an early variant of this malware family in 2017. DNS requests are performed in this fashion, using either Google’s DNS server (8.8.8[.]8) 2017-04-26. 2017-04-30. 2017-06-24. Affected devices. 8) or a custom one (222.222.67[.]208).

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Humans are Bad at URLs and Fonts Don’t Matter

Troy Hunt

Everything becomes clear(er) if I manually change the font in the browser dev tools to a serif version: The victim I was referring to in the opening of this blog post? Obviously, the image is resized to the width of paragraphs on this blog, give it a click if you want to check it out at 1:1 size. Is it a button?

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Necurs Botnet adopts a new strategy to evade detection

Security Affairs

The Necurs botnet was not active for a long period at the beginning of 2017 and resumed its activity in April 2017 when it was observed using a new technique to avoid detection. ” reads a blog post published by the firm. ” continues the blog post. “At times, they’ve been known to be inactive for weeks.

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