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Tech News Flash: Friday -- May 15, 2015

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FireEye, Microsoft Outsmart Clever Chinese Malware
Consumer Group Worries Over Safety of Google's Self-Driving Cars
Venom Vulnerability Could Violate Virtual Machines

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FireEye, Microsoft Outsmart Clever Chinese Malware
FireEye and Microsoft have scotched a scheme by a group of
cybercriminals based in China to use an IT pro forum to hide malicious
activity, according to a report released Thursday. The Chinese gang
known as "APT17" devised the scheme, which uses forum pages and profiles
on Microsoft's TechNet, to cover traffic from machines infected with the
group's Black Coffee malware.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82060.html

Consumer Group Worries Over Safety of Google's Self-Driving Cars
Even though Google's self-driving technology was not at fault in any of
11 minor accidents involving the cars over six years of testing,
Consumer Watchdog has raised an alarm over the vehicles' safety, even
releasing a video that simulates a serious crash in a tech-failure
scenario. The group frequently accuses Google of privacy violations and
exerting undue influence on the U.S. government.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82054.html

Venom Vulnerability Could Violate Virtual Machines
Crowdstrike on Wednesday made public its discovery of yet another long-
buried Linux vulnerability. "Venom," as it has been dubbed, was
unearthed by the firm's senior security researcher, Jason Geffner. It is
listed as vulnerability CVE-2015-3456. Venom exists in the virtual
floppy drive code used by virtualization platforms based on QEMU, or
quick emulator. It has been around since 2004.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82057.html

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