Die Malware Miner-C attackiert offene FTP-Dienste und versucht dann auf Desktop-PCs zu landen, um dort die Kryptowährung Monero zu schürfen.

Eine Schwachstelle in einer Software-Bibliothek sorgt dafür, dass über eine manipulierte TIFF-Datei eine Remote-Code-Ausführung möglich ist.

Nach Angaben des BSI laufen hierzulande über 20.000 Cloud-Systeme mit Versionen von ownCloud und Nextcloud, die kritische Sicherheitslücken aufweisen.

CHAP ist ein Authentifizierungsverfahren für PPP-Verbindungen und bietet mehr Sicherheit als der Vorgänger PAP (Password Authentication Procedure).

By Frederic Lardinois

Microsoft is now selling Red Hat Enterprise Linux licenses. Starting today, you will be able to deploy Red Hat Linux Enterprise (RHLE) from the Azure Marketplace and get support for your deployments from both Microsoft and Red Hat. In addition, Microsoft today announced that it is now offering certified Bitnami images in the Azure Marketplace and it now supports Walmart‘s (yes —… Read More

By Ron Miller

Akamai released a new Bot Manager tool today designed to give companies finely tuned control over Bot traffic on their websites. The numbers vary, but research has shown that about half all of traffic on the web comes from bots. Bots are small programs that interact with a website and can be used for good or ill, depending on your perspective, says Renny Shen, senior marketing manager for… Read More

By Ron Miller

Databricks, the commercial company created from the open source Apache Spark project, announced the release of a free Community Edition today aimed at teaching people how to use Spark — and as an adjunct to the free online courses (MOOCs) it created last year. The free version is a limited edition without all of the advanced features you would find in the enterprise-pay… Read More

By searchSecurity.de(editor@www.de) Wir stellen mehrere Kriterien zur Evaluierung von Plattformen für Big Data Security Analytics vor. Diese Systeme erhöhen die Informationssicherheit.

By Sarah Perez

Elgato, a company that makes a number of smart home devices under its “Eve” brand, including those that track weather and air quality, is today rolling a new product for those more concerned with monitoring and controlling their home’s energy usage. The Eve Energy device plugs into a wall socket, allowing you to control connected devices via iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch… Read More

By Sarah Perez

With the emerging ecosystem of connected devices – often dubbed the “Internet of Things” – consumers are rightly worried about the security and privacy implications associated with always-on hardware in their homes that listen, watch, observe and then store data in the cloud. Today, a company called Silk Labs, co-founded by former Mozilla CTO Andreas Gal, is launching… Read More