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	2017-06-27 13:31:34	Cloudflare Launches New App Store for Websites, $100 Million Development Fund (lien direct)	Cloudflare Launches New Website App Store and Partners With Venture Firms to Launch $100 Million Development Fund
	2017-06-27 12:52:57	China Agrees to Fight Corporate Hacking in Canada (lien direct)	China has pledged not to carry out state-sponsored cyberattacks against the intellectual property of Canadian firms, the two sides said Monday. The agreement was reached as part of ongoing bilateral security and trade talks.
	2017-06-27 12:49:18	Russian Oil Giant Rosneft Says Hit by \'Powerful\' Cyberattack (lien direct)	Russian oil giant Rosneft said Tuesday that its servers had suffered a "powerful" cyberattack, as the company is locked in a bitter court fight with the Russian conglomerate Sistema.
	2017-06-26 19:19:38	FBI: $1.45 Billion in Losses to Internet Crime Reported in 2016 (lien direct)	The FBI has published its Internet Crime Report 2016 based on information received by the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). It shows that 298,728 complaints were received by the IC3 during 2016 (up from 288,012 in 2015); and that reported losses to internet crime totaled more than $1.45 billion (up from $1.07 billion in 2015).
	2017-06-26 18:17:31	Google Stops Scanning Gmail Content for Ad Targeting (lien direct)	Google on Friday announced plans to stop scanning the content of consumer Gmail addresses for personalizing the ads it serves to users.
	2017-06-26 13:51:42	Windows 10 Source Code Leaked Online (lien direct)	A portion of Microsoft's Windows 10 source code was leaked online this week on an enthusiast website that tracks Windows releases.
	2017-06-26 12:59:09	Using Cyber War Games to Improve Incident Response (lien direct)
	2017-06-26 12:48:03	Corvil Integrates its Security Analytics Into Cisco\'s Tetration Platform (lien direct)	At Cisco Live, Las Vegas Monday, IT analytics firm Corvil announced the integration of its Security Analytics with the Cisco Tetration Analytics platform. The intention is to combine Corvil's realtime packet-level analysis with Tetration's vast big data repository of downstream application-level data flows to provide an early, rich, granular and consistent detection of anomalous communications indicative of compromise.
	2017-06-26 11:20:06	Govt Websites in Ohio, Maryland Hacked With Pro-IS Messages (lien direct)	Several government websites in the US states of Ohio and Maryland had to be shut down Sunday after being hacked to display messages supporting the Islamic State group. Among the affected websites was one belonging to Ohio Governor John Kasich.
	2017-06-24 23:58:03	UK Parliament Cuts Email Access After Cyberattack (lien direct)	Britain's parliament shut down external access to e-mail accounts on Saturday following a cyberattack. Parliamentary authorities described the attack as "sustained and determined", in an email sent to lawmakers and published by the Daily Telegraph.
	2017-06-24 11:20:32	SamSam Increases Ransom Demand to $33,000 (lien direct)	In newly observed attacks, the SamSam ransomware that has been active for more than a year is demanding a whopping $33,000 to decrypt all affected machines in a network.
	2017-06-24 01:50:59	CIA Knew in August that Putin Sought to Boost Trump: Report (lien direct)	The CIA had top-level intelligence last August that Russian President Vladimir Putin personally ordered an operation to help Donald Trump win the US presidential race, the Washington Post reported Friday. The intelligence shocked the White House and put US security chiefs on a top-secret crisis footing to figure out how to react.
	2017-06-23 17:39:51	GreatHorn Secures $6.3 Million to Combat Spear-Phishing Attacks (lien direct)	Belmont, Mass-based start-up GreatHorn announced Wednesday completion of a $6.3 million Series A funding round led by Techstars Venture Capital Fund and .406 Ventures.
	2017-06-23 16:36:14	Microsoft Downplays Impact of "Fireball" Malware (lien direct)	The Fireball malware detailed early this month might not have had as much impact as originally reported, Microsoft claims.
	2017-06-23 14:57:23	Kantara Initiative Releases Consent Receipt Form for GDPR (lien direct)	With less than one year before GDPR kicks in, the newswaves have been flooded in recent months with new surveys showing how ill-prepared business still remains. But while there is much news, there has been little in the way of practical technology solutions.
	2017-06-23 14:37:34	GhostHook Attack Can Bypass Windows 10\'s PatchGuard (lien direct)	A newly discovered attack targeting Windows 10's PatchGuard can bypass the protection and hook a malicious kernel code (rootkit) at the kernel level, CyberArk Labs security researchers warn.
	2017-06-23 11:46:33	Siemens Patches Flaws in SIMATIC, XHQ Products (lien direct)	Siemens and ICS-CERT published advisories this week to alert users of improper authentication and privilege escalation vulnerabilities affecting some SIMATIC and XHQ products.
	2017-06-23 07:20:00	WikiLeaks Details CIA\'s Air-Gapped Network Hacking Tool (lien direct)	WikiLeaks published several documents on Thursday detailing a tool allegedly used by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to hack air-gapped networks through USB drives.
	2017-06-22 22:52:20	Configuration Error Embarrasses UK\'s Cyber Essentials (lien direct)	The UK government's Cyber Essentials scheme has suffered an embarrassing incident; but one that can hardly be called a breach and certainly not a cyber-attack. A configuration error in the underlying software platform exposed the email addresses of consultancies registered with the scheme -- nothing more.
	2017-06-22 16:45:27	Microsoft Extends Edge Bounty Program Indefinitely (lien direct)	Microsoft this week announced that the Edge Web Platform bounty program launched for Windows Insider Preview (WIP) last year has been extended indefinitely. The program was launched on August 4, 2016, and Microsoft says that it has already paid over $200,000 in bounties over the ten-month period.
	2017-06-22 15:38:35	OpenVPN Patches Remotely Exploitable Vulnerabilities (lien direct)	OpenVPN this week patched several vulnerabilities impacting various branches, including flaws that could be exploited remotely.
	2017-06-22 13:19:19	Testing in an Agile and DevOps World (lien direct)	We live in a software-defined world. Software touches just about everything we do. Any business trying to maintain their competitive advantages, or gain market momentum, has had to reintegrate their software somehow. This has resulted in fast-paced development methods, like Agile and DevOps, which facilitate continuous product improvements. On the downside, these new methods of development can minimize testing and, in turn, potentially compromise performance and security.
	2017-06-22 12:14:24	Necurs Botnet Distributing Locky Ransomware via Fake Invoices (lien direct)	The Necurs spam botnet has switched back to distributing the Locky ransomware in a campaign featuring messages disguised as fake invoices, Cisco Talos security researchers reveal.
	2017-06-22 11:24:55	Consortium Promotes Principles for Fair and Accurate Security Ratings (lien direct)	Under the aegis of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, more than 40 companies -- including some of America's largest banks and tech companies -- have signed up to a set of new guiding principles for fair and accurate security ratings.
	2017-06-22 11:09:40	Social Media \'Bots\' From Russia Distorting Global Politics: Study (lien direct)	A wave of "computational propaganda," largely driven by Russia, is impacting politics around the world by spreading misinformation designed to manipulate public opinion, researchers said Tuesday.
	2017-06-22 10:54:16	Honda Halts Production at Japan Plant After Cyber Attacks (lien direct)	Honda said Wednesday it had temporarily halted production at a plant in Japan after it suffered a cyberattack from the same ransomware that struck hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide last month.
	2017-06-22 08:53:01	Drupal Patches Flaw Exploited in Spam Campaigns (lien direct)	Drupal security updates released on Wednesday address several vulnerabilities, including one that has been exploited in spam campaigns. The flaw exploited in the wild, patched with the release of Drupal versions 7.56 and 8.3.4, is a moderately critical access bypass vulnerability tracked as CVE-2017-6922.
	2017-06-22 07:33:44	Russia Targeted Election-Related Networks in 21 States: DHS (lien direct)	Hackers believed to be working for the Russian government targeted election-related networks in 21 U.S. states, representatives of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday in a hearing on threats to election infrastructure.
	2017-06-21 16:09:43	SecurityWeek\'s 2017 CISO Forum to Take Place June 28-29 at Ritz-Carlton, Half Moon Bay (lien direct)
	2017-06-21 15:55:08	Average Cost of Data Breach Drops Globally, Rises to $7.35 Million in U.S. (lien direct)	Cost of Data Breach Drops Globally, But Rises 5% in U.S.
	2017-06-21 15:49:13	Mozilla Brings Privacy-Focused Browser to Android (lien direct)	After making it available for iOS devices in November 2016, Mozilla this week brought its privacy-focused mobile browser to Android.
	2017-06-21 12:39:39	Elastic Beam Emerges From Stealth With API Security Solution (lien direct)	Redwood City, Calif.-based Elastic Beam emerged from stealth mode on Wednesday with the launch of a security solution designed to detect and block cyberattacks targeting application programming interfaces (APIs).
	2017-06-21 12:18:15	What Are Your Cyber Team Dynamics? (lien direct)	We have a major shortage of qualified cybersecurity professionals. This is not a new realization and it is one in which the community general agrees. What isn't talked about as much – but should be – is a cyber team's dynamics and its impact on performance.
	2017-06-21 12:00:16	Cybereason Raises $100 Million to Hunt Attackers (lien direct)	Boston, MA-based Cybereason today announced that it has raised $100 million in Series D funding from SoftBank Corp. This increases the total investment in the cyber attack detection firm to $189 million since its inception in 2012.
	2017-06-21 02:31:45	Time to Detect Compromise Improves, While Detection to Containment Worsens: Report (lien direct)	Cost of Malvertising is Minimal; Price of Zero-days is Rising, Researchers Say
	2017-06-21 00:36:37	Spear Phishing Campaign Targets Palestinian Law Enforcement (lien direct)	Palestinian law enforcement agencies and other targets within Palestine were targeted in a spear phishing campaign delivering malware to remotely control infected systems, Talos researchers reveal.
	2017-06-20 15:28:47	Why WannaCry Was a Wake Up Call for Critical Infrastructure Security (lien direct)	Many OT Networks are Susceptible to Threats Like WannaCry		Wannacry
	2017-06-20 14:48:12	Cisco Releases Open Source Malware Signature Generator (lien direct)	Cisco's Talos intelligence and research group announced on Monday the availability of a new open source framework designed for automatically generating antivirus signatures from malware.
	2017-06-20 14:21:42	Understanding Looming Threats and the Need to Hunt With Anonymity (lien direct)	Situational awareness is critical in every kind of engagement. The internet is no exception. Effectively all modern conflicts take place, at least in part, online. To understand the threats you will inevitably face, you need to go hunting outside your perimeter. Only by surreptitiously monitoring and engaging with potential attackers and malware developers will you successfully gain information about emerging attack methods, patterns, and practices in the cyber underground.
	2017-06-20 13:08:25	TrickBot Targets Payment Processors, CRM Providers (lien direct)	Banking Trojan TrickBot is no longer hitting only banks and financial institutions, but also added payment processing and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) providers to its list of targets, F5 warns.
	2017-06-20 13:05:17	Botnets Can Exploit More Vulnerabilities in DVRs (lien direct)	Newly discovered vulnerabilities affecting DVR systems could open the door to new, more potent Internet of Things (IoT) botnets, Pen Test Partners security researchers warn.
	2017-06-20 11:38:48	Cloud Security Firm ShieldX Emerges From Stealth (lien direct)	ShieldX Networks Emerges From Stealth Mode With New Product to Protect Cloud Infrastructure
	2017-06-20 10:57:25	North Korea\'s DDoS Attacks Analyzed Based on IPs (lien direct)	Arbor Networks has used the IP addresses shared recently by United States authorities to analyze distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks attributed to the North Korean government. The security firm believes the data may not be as useful for organizations as the U.S. hopes.
	2017-06-20 08:41:54	\'Stack Clash\' Flaws Allow Privilege Escalation on Unix Systems (lien direct)	Linux and other Unix-like operating systems are affected by a type of vulnerability that can be exploited by an attacker for root privilege escalation, Qualys warned on Monday.
	2017-06-20 03:51:15	Mexican Journalists, Activists Accuse Govt of Spying on Them (lien direct)	A group of prominent journalists and activists in Mexico accused the government Monday of spying on them, saying their phones had been hacked with Israeli spyware sold exclusively to the state.
	2017-06-19 17:34:59	Republican Party Contractor Exposes Details of 198 Million American Voters (lien direct)	More than 1 terabytes of data compiled by three contractors of the U.S. Republican Party, including the details of 198 million American voters, were stored in a misconfigured database that could have been accessed by anyone, according to cyber resilience startup UpGuard.
	2017-06-19 16:22:09	Google Steps Up Efforts to Block Extremism, Following Facebook (lien direct)	Google is stepping up its efforts to block "extremist and terrorism-related videos" over its platforms, using a combination of technology and human monitors.
	2017-06-19 16:15:31	(Déjà vu) Web Hosting Provider Pays $1 Million to Ransomware Attackers (lien direct)	South Korean web hosting company Nayana agreed to pay $1 million in Bitcoin after a ransomware attack hit 153 Linux servers.
	2017-06-19 16:06:40	Geopolitical Context a Prerequisite for Finished Intelligence (lien direct)	Finished intelligence, at its core, requires both data and context. While I've written previously about how different data sources -- specifically the Deep & Dark Web versus the open web -- can dictate the value and relevance of the resulting intelligence, establishing the proper context is just as crucial.
	2017-06-19 15:56:01	Quantum Computing\'s Threat to Public-key Cryptosystems (lien direct)	The Quantum Cryptography Problem

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