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SafeBreach discloses vulnerabilities in Avast, AVG, Avira

The Parallax

The SafeBreach disclosures accompany a report from Avast revealing a new attack against its CCleaner software on Monday, October 21, following a 2017 hack. Antivirus software often is designed to start running before many other software do, in order to protect the system from attack.

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Applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in business

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

The investment in AI by both tech giants as well as start-ups has increased 3 folds to $40 Billion as of 2017. Improvement in machine learning (ML) algorithms—due to the availability of large amounts of data. e.g. financial asset management, legal assessment, financial application processing, autonomous weapons systems, games.

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Daisy Chaining: How Vulnerabilities Can Be Greater Than the Sum of Their Parts

Tenable

With the rise of daisy-chained cyberattacks, security teams must consider the contextual risk of each vulnerability, including its potential to be leveraged in a full system compromise. Examples of vulnerabilities leveraged in full system compromise. CVE-2017-11774 , CVE-2017-0213. CVE-2017-10271 , CVE-2017-0144.

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Triaging modern medicine’s cybersecurity issues

The Parallax

And they say it’s high time for the entire health care ecosystem, from clinicians to hospital systems to insurers, to scrub in and get to work on better protecting medical data and devices. Critical systems at heart of WannaCry’s impact. On doctors’ orders, Israel plans a health care CERT. The problem with ‘just patching’.

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WannaCry Ransomware Review and Global Impact.

ProtectWise

Any network with hosts running a version of the Windows operating system missing the MS17-010 patches is vulnerable to WannaCry's infection mechanism. The patches for Microsoft (currently supported) operating systems were released on March 14, 2017 following the Shadow Brokers leak. Who Created The Malware?

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CodeSOD: Classic WTF: Developer Carols

The Daily WTF

It's the holiday season, which means over the next few days, we'll be reviewing some of the best of 2020, if anything about 2020 can be considered "the best", and maybe some other surprises. To kick things off, we're going to pull from the faroff year of Christmas 2017, and return to our Developer Carols.

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From Bugs to Breaches: 25 Significant CVEs As MITRE CVE Turns 25

Tenable

CVE-2010-2568: Windows Shell Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Remote Code Execution Exploited Zero-Day Local Stuxnet High 2010 Why it’s significant: Regarded as one of the most sophisticated cyberespionage tools ever created, Stuxnet was designed to target SCADA systems in industrial environments to reportedly sabotage Iran's nuclear program.