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Happy Halloween! Settle in with some Halloween treats as you catch up on our top news from this past week.

Unit 42 published part one of the new series on [adversaries \& their motivations](http://bit.ly/1jYUoUJ) and provided a [high-level view of the threat landscape](https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/blog/2015/10/understanding-and-preventing-point-of-sale-attacks/) currently affecting point of scale decides.

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Greg Day discuss why we [shouldn't pit broader privacy concerns against security in the EU](https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/blog/2015/10/lets-not-pit-broader-privacy-concerns-against-security-in-the-eu/).

The Cyber Threat Alliance annouced the results of [Project Redstone](http://cyberthreatalliance.org/cryptowall-report.pdf), the campaign associated with CryptoWall 3, and discussed [the Future of Information Sharing](https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/blog/2015/10/cryptowall-3-the-cyber-threat-alliance-and-the-future-of-information-sharing/).

President and CEO Mark McLaughlin sat down with fellow Cyber Threat Alliance founders at the Churchill Club to talk about the [current state of cybersecurity](https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/blog/2015/10/cyber-threat-alliance-reflects-on-the-current-state-of-cybersecurity-at-the-churchill-club/) and what lies ahead.

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In a recent *SecurityWeek* column, Scott Simkin examines the challenge of [sharing threat intelligence among security vendors](https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/blog/2015/10/the-value-of-shared-threat-intelligence/), noting how vendors who treat threat intelligence as intellectual property are doing more harm than good when it comes to stopping cyber attacks.

Palo Alto Networks researcher Hui Gao discovered a new critical [Internet Explorer (IE) vulnerability](https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/blog/2015/10/palo-alto-networks-researcher-discovers-critical-ie-vulnerability/) affecting Internet Explorer users with versions 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11.

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