BITS AND BYTES FOR FRIDAY
It's finally Friday again - the end of another week, and here are this Friday's "Bits & Bytes" -
SYMANTEC FIRES CEO
Symantec, the large Internet and personal computer security firm fired it's second CEO in 2 years. Hired to help turnaround the company which had been losing business to competitors, apparently Steve Bennett wasn't fast enough.
FIREFOX ADDRESSES MANY SECURITY ISSUES IN NEW UPDATE
If you opened up Firefox as early as yesterday you probably noticed it went through a forced update. 20 security issues were addressed [in case you wondered about why it was updating]
LINUX SERVERS WITH OLDER KERNEL 2.6 ATTACKED
Any site using this older, outdated kernel (2.6 from 2003) on their web server are being attacked. According to CISCO, peopled going to any site with the older kernel are being redirected to a malicious web page. As one would expect, it involves adding some Java script onto vulnerable servers. For full information, you'll find that HERE.
PILEUP FLAWS AND ANDROID OS
A research paper from Indiana University Bloomington and Microsoft says that an Android OS-based system (phone/tablet) if infected with Malware would upgrade it's privileges when the system OS is updated as well, or in other words, it would have it's current access "Grandfathered" into the updated OS. You can read more about that on the Malwarebytes Blog HERE.
RATS
If you recall from a post last year a RAT is a "Remote Administration Tool" used by certain types of Malware. If you want to know a little more about them FireEye recently posted a pretty decent article on their blog, HERE.
And, rats! I'm out of time...
'Nuff Said,
Brian
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