IE10 under attack as hackers exploit zero-day bug

Computerworld Security: February 14, 2014
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IE10 under attack as hackers exploit zero-day bug

FireEye today said it had discovered that attackers are actively exploiting a
new, unpatched vulnerability in Internet Explorer 10.
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IN THIS ISSUE

1. Hackers circulate thousands of FTP credentials; New York Times among those hit
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2. Greg Lambert: Microsoft Patch Tuesday for February 2014
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3. Dozens of rogue self-signed SSL certificates used to impersonate high-profile sites
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4. Ford exec says automaker doesn't collect or share car location data
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5. Nicholas D. Evans: Retail's chess game with point-of-sale malware
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6. Attack on US veterans website may have been aimed at military members
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7. Federal smartphone kill-switch legislation proposed
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8. NIST framework released to widespread praise, but what happens next?
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Hackers circulate thousands of FTP credentials; New York Times among those hit

Hackers are circulating credentials for thousands of FTP sites and appear to
have compromised file transfer servers at The New York Times and other
organizations, according to a security expert.
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Greg Lambert: Microsoft Patch Tuesday for February 2014


With this February Patch Tuesday release from Microsoft, we see 7 security
bulletins with four updates rated as Critical by Microsoft and the remaining
four bulletins rated as Important.

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Dozens of rogue self-signed SSL certificates used to impersonate high-profile sites

Dozens of self-signed SSL certificates created to impersonate banking,
e-commerce and social networking websites have been found on the Web. The
certificates don't pose a big threat to browser users, but could be used to
launch man-in-the-middle attacks against users of many mobile apps, according to
researchers from Internet services firm Netcraft who found the certificates.
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Ford exec says automaker doesn't collect or share car location data

A Ford executive told U.S. Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) that the automaker does not
collect or share location data from cars without the operator's explicit
permission.
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Nicholas D. Evans: Retail's chess game with point-of-sale malware


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Attack on US veterans website may have been aimed at military members

A cyberattack against the Veteran of Foreign Wars website, believed to have been
initiated in China, may have sought to spy on U.S. military members, security
company FireEye said Thursday.
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Federal smartphone kill-switch legislation proposed

Pressure on the cellphone industry to introduce technology that could disable
stolen smartphones has intensified with the introduction of proposed federal
legislation that would mandate such a system.
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NIST framework released to widespread praise, but what happens next?

Following a solid year of intensive work, the National Institute of Standards
and Technology (NIST) released yesterday its "final" framework for improving
critical infrastructure cybersecurity as mandated under a February 2013
executive order by President Obama. The 41-page document closely tracks, with
some notable changes, the preliminary framework released by NIST in November.
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