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Cisco Releases Security Updates
Description: Cisco has released updates to address vulnerabilities affecting Cisco products. Impact: An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to obtain sensitive information. Mitigation: Updates are available. Please see the references or vendor advisory for more information. Reference URL’s: https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/publicationListing.x?product=Cisco&sort=-day_sir#~Vulnerabilities
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Oracle Releases Security Update
Description: Oracle has released its Critical Patch Update for July 2018 to address 334 vulnerabilities across multiple products. Impact: An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. Mitigation: Updates are available. Please see the references or vendor advisory for more information. Reference URL’s: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2018-4258247.html
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Conference on Cyber Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT/SOC) for Financial Sector Organization
Local and international cyber security experts on Monday stressed the need for establishing Cyber Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) in financial organisations to check the growing cybercrimes, reports UNB. Speaking at a conference, they also said the country’s banking and financial institutions (FIs) should come forward to establish CSIRT to address the cyber-attacks coming from home and abroad. The conference on ‘CSIRT for Financial Sector...
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Cybersecurity Maturity Assessment by International Experts to Inform Bangladesh’s Renewal of National Strategy
On 26 June 2018, Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC), Information and Communication Technology Division, Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology (MoPTIT), Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh signed a contract with Norway Registers Development AS in joint venture with NRD CS UAB and Algoritmu Sistemos UAB to provide consultancy services for development of cyber security strategy, assessment of critical infrastructure, provision of self-assessment toolkit,...
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Malicious Macro Hijacks Windows Desktop Shortcuts [source: gbhackers]
Cybercriminals using a malicious macro that changes the target of Desktop Shortcuts to download malware and when the user clicks on the altered shortcut file, the malware executes. With this new campaign, attackers used common tools like WinRAR, and Ammyy Admin to gather information instead of their own tools. Security researchers from Trend Micro uncovered the new campaign, the malware and macro are not sophisticated and researchers...
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Mozilla Releases Security Update for Thunderbird
Description: Mozilla has released a security update to address multiple vulnerabilities in Thunderbird. Impact: An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to obtain sensitive information. Mitigation: Updates are available. Please see the references or vendor advisory for more information. Reference URL’s: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-18/
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Protecting Yourself on Social Networks [source: ssd.eff]
Social networks are among the most popular websites on the Internet. Facebook has over a billion users, and Instagram and Twitter have hundreds of millions of users each. Social networks were generally built on the idea of sharing posts, photographs, and personal information. Now they have also become forums for organizing and speech. Any of these activities can rely on privacy and pseudonymity. Thus, the...
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The Problem with Mobile Phones [source: ssd.eff]
Mobile phones have become ubiquitous and basic communications tools—now used not only for phone calls, but also for accessing the Internet, sending text messages, and documenting the world. Unfortunately, mobile phones were not designed for privacy and security. Not only do they do a poor job of protecting your communications, they also expose you to new kinds of surveillance risks—especially location tracking. Most mobile phones...
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Cyber security strategy to be developed [source: theindependentbd]
The government is going to develop a cyber-security strategy in collaboration with international firms NRD CS and Global Cyber Security Capacity Center (GCSCC) of University of Oxford to protect Bangladesh’s cyberspace, reports BSS. A team of NRD CS and GCSCC arrived in Dhaka on Monday and met officials and stakeholders to discuss Bangladesh’s advancement in digitations and current status of cyber space aimed at developing...
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