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In the news this month: the world\u2019s premier security conferences, Black Hat and DEF CON, take center stage to open August; more advanced persistent threats emerge in China and elsewhere; malware is using webmail to communicate; and a bizarre tale surrounding a brief outage on Sony\u2019s PlayStation Network. Threatpost\u2019s Brian Donohue and Chris Brook review these stories and more in this August 2014 edition of the Kaspersky Daily podcast.<\/p>\n

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As the Black Hat security conference transitions from a corporate-only affair to a consumer friendly one, you can expect to read more about it here on Kaspersky Daily. For a bit of context, read my thorough review of the event<\/a>. My editors at Threatpost, Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso, and I also recorded podcasts recapping the first<\/a> and second<\/a> days of Black Hat, which will provide a more in depth look at the event commonly referred to as Security Summer Camp.<\/p>\n

A trend seems to be emerging in the months, and now year, that has followed Edward Snowden\u2019s National Security Agency revelations: more and more of the Internet is becoming encrypted. This month was no different as Yahoo vows to encrypt all email end-to-end by the end of the year<\/a> and Google announced it will give search preference to sites that use secure SSL connections<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lots of fixes this month, however the real story is of Microsoft\u2019s patching fiasco. It released its standard patch Tuesday release<\/a>, which broke a number of user machines<\/a>, then Microsoft eventually released a new bulletin earlier this week<\/a>. As I mentioned but did not elaborate upon in the podcast, Google released a pair of updates to Chrome, which you can read about here<\/a> and here<\/a>. And Apple has some security fixes as well<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll find more in depth coverage of this month\u2019s APT findings at Threatpost, whether its Turla<\/a> or the Chinese crew that allegedly hacked into Community Health Systems<\/a>. While we\u2019re on the topic of Community Health Systems, we wrote an analysis of that breach and what it means for you<\/a> here on the Daily.<\/p>\n

On the malware front, you can read all about the new malware using Yahoo mail as a communications hub<\/a> and a new, primarily Web-based piece of rogue antivirus malware<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t forget to check out Chris Brook\u2019s report on Verizon\u2019s belief in the potential for using QR codes as mechanisms for authentication , and you probably want to read this very odd story about the incidents surrounding the DDoS attack that briefly took down the PlayStation Network<\/a> last weekend.<\/p>\n

Podcast: @TheBrianDonohue and @BrokenFuses review the security and privacy news from August 2014<\/p>Tweet<\/a><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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