Favourite Security Reads of the Week (3 Oct 2014)

Favourite Security Reads of the Week (3 Oct 2014)

"Favourite Security Reads of the Week". Each week we share five news or articles that we like. We hope you will love this column and we welcome your comment via email to [email protected].

Below is the Favourite Security Reads of this Week.

1. CryptoWall updated to 2.0 (F-Secure, 2 Oct 2014)
2. Mitigating the Impact of Shellshock on Financial Institutions (PhishLabs, 2 Oct 2014)
   
   • [Editor: You may refer to HKCERT security bulletin - GNU Bash "Shellshock" Vulnerability] 
3. Point-of-Sale vendor loses password, causes breaches at 324 US restaurants (Naked Security, 29 Sep 2014)
4. 14 Best Open Source Web Application Vulnerability Scanners (InfoSec Institute, 24 Sep 2014)
5. High-volume DDoS attacks on the rise (Help Net Security, 23 Sep 2014)