Security News

• Oracle to acquire Talari Networks
  Talari's technology is expected to help Oracle's cloud business by providing customers with secure and reliable enterprise networking services.
  
• Best Black Friday 2018 deals: Business Bargain Hunter's top picks
  If you're going to get the most out of this shopping extravaganza, you might as well do it right.
  
• Best Google Store Black Friday 2018 deals: Home Hub, Pixel 3, and Pixelbook all on sale
  Pixelbook is $300 off. Google Clips is half off. Nest's thermostat is $80 off. There's Google deals galore!
  
• Red Hat releases Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 beta
  The next major RHEL update is on its way with more container friendliness than ever.
  
• DOD disables file sharing service due to 'security risks'
  AMRDEC SAFE portal had been to handle the transfer of classified and non-classified materials.
  
• Motorola One, First Take: Affordable, with regular Android updates
  
  
• Zuckerberg or Sandberg: Who should Facebook unfollow first?
  Opinion: A devastating New York Times investigation reveals a Facebook in which its two top officials behave in troubling ways.
  
• ​Mark Shuttleworth reveals Ubuntu 18.04 will get a 10-year support lifespan
  Ubuntu Linux founder Mark Shuttleworth talks about Ubuntu, OpenStack, competition with Red Hat, and Canonical's forthcoming IPO.
  
• Gift ideas? Perhaps check Mozilla's gadget security, creepiness ratings before you buy
  Mozilla's buyers' guide rates the security and privacy of 70 connected things, ranging from toys to smart speakers.
  
• Mozilla: Firefox will start alerting you to recently breached sites
  Mozilla brings Firefox Monitor to Firefox on the desktop.
  

• tRat Emerges as New Pet for APT Group TA505
  The modular malware seems to be in a testing phase, but TA505's interest made researchers take note.
  
• Managing the Risk of IT-OT Convergence
  Why manufacturing and logistics are especially challenged.
  
• Connected Wristwatch Allows Hackers to Stalk, Spy On Children
  "Our advice is to stop using this watch" as mitigations are not available, researchers told Threatpost.
  
• Ahead of Black Friday, Rash of Malware Families Takes Aim at Holiday Shoppers
  As consumers skip the store crowds in favor of online deals, cyberattackers have geared up to victimize them.
  
• Bitcoin Giveaway Scam Balloons, with Google the Latest Victim
  A slew of verified Twitter accounts have been hijacked and altered, used to tweet out a bogus Bitcoin giveaway scam.
  
• Pwn2Own Trifecta: Galaxy S9, iPhone X and Xiaomi Mi6 Fall to Hackers
  Hacker contest earns participants $325,000 based on the discovery of 18 vulnerabilities.
  
• Siemens Patches Firewall Flaw That Put Operations at Risk
  The industrial company on Tuesday released mitigations for eight vulnerabilities overall.
  
• Microsoft Patches Zero-Day Bug in Win7, Server 2008 and 2008 R2
  Microsoft’s November Patch Tuesday fixes include mitigation against a zero-day vulnerability leaving Windows 7, Server 2008 and Server 2008 R2 open to attack.
  
• Google’s G Suite, Search and Analytics Taken Down in Hijacking
  Google cloud business customers were impacted by a Border Gateway Protocol hijacking.
  
• Unpatched Android OS Flaw Allows Adversaries to Track User Location
  The vulnerability is one of many with the same root cause: Cross-process information leakage.