Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 17:55:50 +0000
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| A roundup of the most interesting cybersecurity news stories from August 12 to 18, including a deep dive into facial recognition technology, swatting dangers, social engineering attacks on cities, and more.
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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 09:33:00 -0700
No doubt you recall the warning back in February that Windows 7, Server 2008 and Server 2008 R2 patches starting in July would use the SHA-2 encryption protocol. If you want to install Win7 patches issued after July, you have to get the SHA-2 translator installed.
A few days ago, Microsoft tossed a zinger into the FAQs down at the bottom of its SHA-2 post, 2019 SHA-2 Code Signing Support requirement for Windows and WSUS. That post now says that you have to install a seemingly unrelated patch, KB 3133977, entitled, BitLocker can’t encrypt drives because of service crashes in svchost.exe process in Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2.
Credit to Author: Kaspersky Team| Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 15:42:41 +0000
The truth about the recently discovered — and already fixed — bug in Kaspersky consumer products.
Read moreCredit to Author: Seth Rosenblatt| Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 15:00:00 +0000
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| Personalization is the new mantra of marketers—and most people are perfectly okay with that. But when does personalization cross the line into invasive? And what can uncomfortable consumers do about blocking it?
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Read moreCredit to Author: Jon Clay (Global Threat Communications)| Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 14:05:16 +0000
There are many different threats targeting many different areas of a corporate network. Have you ever wondered how those threats are stopped? What threats impact which areas of a network? What technology detects and blocks those threats? I wanted to build an interactive graphic to answer those questions. This interactive infographic can help you understand…
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 13:03:32 +0000
Cybercrooks increasingly are anonymizing their malicious traffic by routing it through residential broadband and wireless data connections. Most often, those connections are hacked computers, mobile phones, or home routers. But this is the story of a sprawling “bulletproof residential VPN” service that appears to have been built by acquiring chunks of Internet addresses from some the largest ISPs and mobile data providers in the United States and abroad.
Read moreCredit to Author: Greg Young (Vice President for Cybersecurity)| Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 13:22:58 +0000
Real enterprises are messy places. One messy reality is that enterprises don’t manage all their endpoints. A smart colleague turned me onto using the % of endpoints and servers managed as a prime security metric. On one end of the spectrum are places like universities that maybe manage 10% of the endpoints on their network….
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Read moreCredit to Author: Vaibhav Billade| Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 10:29:14 +0000
Quick Heal Security Lab spotted 27 malicious apps of dropper category on official “Google Play Store”. These apps have been removed from Play Store after Quick Heal Security Lab reported it to Google last week. These apps continuously show installation prompt for fake “Google Play Store”. If any user falls…
Read moreCredit to Author: Vaibhav Billade| Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 10:29:14 +0000
Quick Heal Security Lab spotted 27 malicious apps of dropper category on official “Google Play Store”. These apps have been removed from Play Store after Quick Heal Security Lab reported it to Google last week. These apps continuously show installation prompt for fake “Google Play Store”. If any user falls…
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Credit to Author: Leonardo Granda| Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 12:16:54 +0000
Hoje tive uma conversa muito interessante com um cliente. Falamos sobre a complexidade que vem com a interrupção das ameaças atuais e como os atacantes cibernéticos estão se tornando mais sofisticados quando se trata de perpetrar um ataque. Contei sobre as técnicas que os cibercriminosos estão usando e sobre as tendências de segurança cibernética que […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/1m2v7Ip1tZk” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Leonardo Granda| Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2018 02:10:30 +0000
Cyberataques na economia global é um fato há muito tempo, esses países estão entre os mais abertos ao comércio internacional, onde realizar transferências para outros países não é nada difícil. E organizações criminosas cibernéticas dedicadas a explorar as fraquezas dos sistemas bancários sabem disso! Seu modus operandi, onde distribuem o dinheiro extraído em diferentes contas […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/vtXL1sfaPxw” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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