Dark Reading was good today. Several interesting tid bits. Suggest that you check it out at http://www.darkreading.com/
Accused LinkedIn, DropBox Hacker Appears in US Court After Diplomatic Battle
In the Czech Republic since October 2016, Yevgeniy Nikulin had requested asylum there after warrants for his arrest were issued by both Russia and the US. The Czech government denied his bid for asylum and turned him over the US, where he appeared in a federal courtroom on Friday morning.
Nikulin, the Russian hacker accused of being responsible for breaching DropBox and the 2012 LinkedIn attack that saw 117 million passwords stolen, has been extradited to the US in a process that has implications for the larger relationship between the US and Russia. https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/accused-linkedin-dropbox-hacker-appears-in-us-court-after-diplomatic-battle/d/d-id/1331413
The Cybersecurity Mandates Keep On Coming
With threats more complex than ever, and with more data to protect and more technologies touching that data, more cyber regulation is bound to happen. The questions are How can a company possibly keep up, and Are we safely in compliance? https://www.darkreading.com/risk/compliance/the-cybersecurity-mandates-keep-on-coming/a/d-id/1331366
Microsoft Rushes Out Fix for Major Hole Caused by Previous Meltdown Patch
While fixing an obscure potential vulnerability, they created a real hack vector! Don’t cha jus’ luv high tech?
Chris Goetti, director of product management at Ivanti, says … “When Microsoft issued a fix for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008, they made a mistake and ended up opening up read and write access in RAM so anybody could access anything in memory and write to it,”
Cautions Jack Danahy, CTO and co-founder of Barkly. “This is an easy-to-exploit zero-day vulnerability and a much more probable attack vector that the original problem that Microsoft was trying to correct. … Microsoft accidentally distributed a new zero-day vulnerability of their own design.”
Microsoft has rushed out an out-of-cycle security patch to address problems created by what were supposed to be fixes for the Meltdown vulnerability that it had previously issued for 64-bit Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 systems. https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/microsoft-rushes-out-fix-for-major-hole-caused-by-previous-meltdown-patch/d/d-id/1331415#