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Tech News Flash: Monday -- December 28, 2015

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Looking Ahead to 2016
Backspace Flaw Enables Linux Zero-Day Attack
All Security Pros Want for Christmas: Smarter Users, Decoy Networks

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Looking Ahead to 2016
Next week is CES, and I am so looking forward to coming home from that
show. It used to be a lot of fun, but it covers such a massive amount of
space that just getting around takes up much of the time. Given that
most folks do prebriefings if they are smart, and that most of the
really cool stuff is behind closed doors and not on the show floor,
every year I question the intelligence of going.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82899.html

Backspace Flaw Enables Linux Zero-Day Attack
Researchers last week revealed a zero-day flaw that lets attackers take
over a Linux system by pressing the backspace key repeatedly. Pressing
backspace 17 to 20 times will overwrite the highest byte of the return
address of the grub_memset() function, ultimately causing a reboot by
redirecting control flow to the 0x00eb53e8 address, according to the
Cybersecurity Group at the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82915.html

All Security Pros Want for Christmas: Smarter Users, Decoy Networks
People like to see gifts from their wish lists under the Christmas tree,
and security pros are no exception. Here are things some cyberwarriors
would like old St. Nick to deliver to them. "It's probably never going
to happen, but it would be fantastic to get smarter users who are less
susceptible to social engineering," said Proofpoint's Ryan Kalember.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82912.html

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