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Targeted operation against Ukraine exploited 7-year-old MS Office bug

Security Affairs

It’s a PPSX file, seemingly an outdated US Army manual for tank mine clearing blades (MCB). The researchers pointed out that the use of the “script:” prefix demonstrates the exploitation of the vulnerability CVE-2017-8570 , a bypass for CVE-2017-0199. The remote script, named “widget_iframe.617766616773726468746672726a6834.html,”

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New Pro-Ocean crypto-miner targets Apache ActiveMQ, Oracle WebLogic, and Redis installs

Security Affairs

The new malware implement new and improved rootkit and worm capabilities, it continues to target cloud applications by exploiting known vulnerabilities such as Oracle WebLogic ( CVE-2017-10271 ) and Apache ActiveMQ ( CVE-2016-3088 ) servers. One of the ways to use LD_PRELOAD is to add the crafted library to /etc/ld.so.preload.”

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Cryptojacking Coinhive Miners for the first time found on the Microsoft Store

Security Affairs

The malicious Monero (XMR) Coinhive cryptomining scripts were delivered leveraging the Google’s legitimate Google Tag Manager (GTM) library. “As soon as the apps are downloaded and launched, they fetch a coin-mining JavaScript library by triggering Google Tag Manager (GTM) in their domain servers.

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2017 Retrospective

Troy Hunt

Here's how I feel about 2017: Blogging. The sponsorship model on the blog also went from strength to strength with every single week in 2017 filled. The focus on shorter local trips is more apparent when you see I went from 9 trips in 2016 to 17 trips in 2017. And it all started with a little project I built in my spare time.

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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Working Internationally for Libraries: How to write effective grant proposals

CILIP

Working Internationally for Libraries: How to write effective grant proposals. I had heard about the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) during my MSc, but I didn?t From her description, it sounded like an exceptional opportunity for learning what libraries all over the world are doing and for networking.

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Oracle critical patch advisory addresses 284 flaws, 33 critical

Security Affairs

The Commons FileUpload library is the default file upload mechanism in Struts 2, the CVE-2016-1000031 was discovered two years ago by experts at Tenable. The CVE-2017-5645 flaw resides in the Codehaus versions of Groovy and affected OCA Unified Inventory Management.