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Credit to Author: Jaikumar Vijayan| Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 04:51:00 -0800
Paying ransom to a cyber extortionist holding enterprise data hostage might seem like a poor idea in principle but sometimes it might the best, or even only, option for extricating your organization from a crisis.
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Credit to Author: Rommel Joven| Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 18:32:03 -0800
Given the popularity and success of ransomware, it is no surprise that malware authors have been developing more ransomware than ever before. Last year’s cost of ransomware attacks reached $1 billion, which not only shows how this affects businesses, but for cybercriminals the potential pay-out for cyber-extortion can be very lucrative. The rise of ransomware infections may also be attributed to the attractiveness growing availability of Ransomware-as-a-Service (Raas). Ransomware authors posts are now developing user-friendly…
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Credit to Author: Tien Phan | Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 17:55:21 -0800
At the end of last year, a critical vulnerability in PHPMailer that affected millions of websites – CVE-2016-10033 – was discovered by Polish security researcher Dawid. This vulnerability allows an attacker to compromise the target’s web application by executing remote code on the vulnerable web server. There are numerous open source web applications that use PHPMailer as their main library for sending emails, including WordPress, Joomla, Yii, SugarCRM… More than a month after PHPMailer released a patch for this critical…
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Credit to Author: Michael Kan| Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 16:34:00 -0800
Come to the RSA show, and you’ll find plenty of cybersecurity technology. The top vendors from across the industry are here, showing products for fighting ransomware, preventing data breaches and more.
But even the best security software is useless if users and businesses aren’t taking the right steps to protect themselves. So we asked experts at the show for their best cybersecurity tips.
Joe Stewart, director of malware research at Dell SecureWorks
He advises everyone to set up two-factor authentication to protect their internet accounts, especially email. It can be particularly useful when stopping hackers who are trying to steal login passwords from users, whether through malware or email phishing schemes.
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Credit to Author: Bill McGee| Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 16:03:03 -0800
RSA 2017 is a wrap. The final sessions are being recorded, the coat check area is filled with luggage, and the smell of propane is filling the show floors as forklifts begin to deliver packing crates to this year’s crop of security vendors. As expected, the hottest security topics and offerings were related to IoT and the cloud. Threat intelligence and SOCs were also top of mind as companies try to get a handle on the deluge of data and devices flooding their networks. In spite of the veneer of innovation, however, for far too many vendors…
Read MoreCredit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 22:30:09 +0000
Kaspersky security researchers find missing security safeguards in nine different connected car apps. The post Android Phone Hacks Could Unlock Millions of Cars appeared first on WIRED.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Jeffrey Esposito| Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 22:00:26 +0000
Kaspersky Lab researchers disclose vulnerabilities in connected car apps.
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At RSA 2017, CSO’s Steve Ragan chats with security expert Ira Winkler about where many security programs are failing within companies, as well as his concept of “advanced persistent security.”