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Fraud Campaign Targets Accounts Payable Contacts at Fortune 500 Firms

February 24, 2018 By aatech

A new business email compromise (BEC) campaign is targeting accounts payable personnel at Fortune 500 companies in an attempt to trick victims into initiating fraudulent wire transactions to attacker-controlled accounts, IBM warns. As part of BEC scams, attackers take over or impersonate a trusted user’s email account to target other companies and divert funds to […]

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Meltdown Patch Broke Some Ubuntu Systems

January 16, 2018 By aatech

Canonical was forced to release a second round of Ubuntu updates that address the recently disclosed CPU vulnerabilities after some users complained that their systems no longer booted after installing the initial patches. On January 9, Canonical released Ubuntu updates designed to mitigate Spectre and Meltdown, two recently disclosed attack methods that work against processors […]