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Patch Tuesday, December 2018 Edition

Krebs on Security

Microsoft patched a zero-day flaw that is already being exploited ( CVE-2018-8611 ) and allows an attacker to elevate their privileges on a host system. Similarly, CVE-2018-8628 is flaw in all supported versions of PowerPoint which is also likely to be used by attackers. Ghacks writeup on December 2018 Patch Tuesday.

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Patch Tuesday, October 2018 Edition

Krebs on Security

The zero-day bug — CVE-2018-8453 — affects Windows versions 7, 8.1, Another vulnerability patched on Tuesday — CVE-2018-8423 — was publicly disclosed last month along with sample exploit code. 10 and Server 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2019.

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Patch Tuesday, November 2018 Edition

Krebs on Security

This week’s patch batch addresses two flaws of particular urgency: One is a zero-day vulnerability ( CVE-2018-8589 ) that is already being exploited to compromise Windows 7 and Server 2008 systems.

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Zales.com Leaked Customer Data, Just Like Sister Firms Jared, Kay Jewelers Did in 2018

Krebs on Security

In December 2018, bling vendor Signet Jewelers fixed a weakness in their Kay Jewelers and Jared websites that exposed the order information for all of their online customers. This week, Signet subsidiary Zales.com updated its website to remediate a nearly identical customer data exposure.

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Threat Modeling in 2018 (video release)

Adam Shostack

Blackhat has released all the 2018 US conference videos. My threat modeling in 2018 video is, of course, amongst them. Slides are linked here.

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Pearson agreed to pay $1 million for 2018 Data Theft

CyberSecurity Insiders

Pearson, a London based e-textbook publishing firm that supplies software to Schools and Universities has been slapped with a fine of $1 million for misleading investors about a 2018 data breach that witnessed siphoning of millions of student records by hackers.

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Norway blames China-linked APT31 for 2018 government hack

Security Affairs

Norway police secret service states said that China-linked APT31 group was behind the 2018 cyberattack on the government’s IT network. Norway’s Police Security Service (PST) said that the China-linked APT31 cyberespionage group was behind the attack that breached the government’s IT network in 2018. Pierluigi Paganini.