Day: June 17, 2016

Surveillance reform measure blocked in the wake of Orlando killings

The U.S. House of Representatives voted down an anti-surveillance amendment after some of its members expressed concern about its impact on the fight against terrorism, in the wake of Sunday’s massacre at a nightclub in Orlando. The measure was proposed by Congressman Thomas Massie, a Republican from Kentucky, and Congresswoman Zoe Lofrgren, a Democrat from

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Flaws expose Cisco RV series routers, firewalls to hacking

Three models of Cisco wireless VPN firewalls and routers from the small business RV series contain a critical unpatched vulnerability that attackers can exploit remotely to take control of devices. The vulnerability is located in the web-based management interface of the Cisco RV110W Wireless-N VPN Firewall, RV130W Wireless-N Multifunction VPN Router and RV215W Wireless-N VPN

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Fear your on-premises security, not the cloud

A new research report from cloud security provider CloudLock argues that more than a quarter of cloud workloads used in corporate environments are “high risk.” Of course, CloudLock is biased; it makes a living spreading FUD about security, tapping into old-school IT fears about cloud computing. Its conclusions are largely foregone. Although this is yet another

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GitHub resets passwords for lazy, reckless users

Confirming that people who should know better are still reusing passwords, attackers have successfully used login credentials stolen from other sites to access GitHub accounts. The attackers were attempting to log into GitHub accounts using email addresses and passwords obtained from other online services that have been breached recently, GitHub said in a statement. After

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