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Should I Worry About AVGater, Which Exploits Some Security Products?
On November 10, a researcher reported the vulnerability AVGater, which affects some antimalware products.
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Don’t Substitute CVSS for Risk: Scoring System Inflates Importance of CVE-2017-3735
I am a wry observer of vulnerability announcements. CVE-2017-3735 presents an excellent example of the limitations of the CVSS.
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Self-Signed Certificates Can Be Secure, So Why Ban Them?
In many organizations the use of self-signed certificates is forbidden by policy. Organizations may ban the use of self-signed certificates.
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KRACKs Against Wi-Fi Serious But Not End of the World
On October 12, researcher Mathy Vanhoef announced a set of Wi-Fi attacks that he named KRACKs, for key reinstallation attacks.
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Linux Kernel Vulnerability Can Lead to Privilege Escalation: Analyzing CVE-2017-1000112
A memory corruption bug in UDP fragmentation offload (UFO) code inside the Linux kernel can lead to local privilege escalation.
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McAfee Labs: Faceliker Surge Manipulates Facebook “Likes” to Promote News, Other Content
The McAfee Labs Threats Report, released today, identifies a notable surge in similar activity by the Faceliker malware.
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Everyday Hero: 5 Questions with McAfee Labs’ Paula Greve
iWith cybersecurity experts taking center stage this week at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, the...
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McAfee Discovers Pinkslipbot Exploiting Infected Machines as Control Servers
This blog was written by Sanchit Karve. McAfee Labs has discovered that banking malware Pinkslipbot (also known...
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Further Analysis of WannaCry Ransomware
McAfee Labs has closely monitored the activity around the ransomware WannaCry. Many sources have reported on this...
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Mirai, BrickerBot, Hajime Attack a Common IoT Weakness
This blog post was written by Rick Simon. We know that devices in the Internet of Things...
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Analyzing a Fresh Variant of the Dorkbot Botnet
This blog post was written by Sudhanshu Dubey. At McAfee Labs, we have recently observed a new...
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Analyzing KillDisk Ransomware, Part 2: Variants and Screen Unlocking
This blog post was written by Sudhanshu Dubey. At McAfee Labs we recently analyzed the ransomware KillDisk. In...Stay Updated
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