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IDG Contributor Network: May Patch Tuesday delivers fixes critical Windows 10 exploits

Credit to Author: Greg Lambert| Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 10:29:00 -0700

For this May Microsoft Patch Tuesday, we see Microsoft attempt to resolve 56 reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office, Windows, both Browsers and the .NET development platform.

Three of the vulnerabilities have been reported publicly and several have been actively exploited. Adding to an already serious situation, Microsoft’s anti-malware tool was compromised, resulting in the inadvertent deployment of malware through the anti-malware engine.

Microsoft responded very quickly with an out-of-band update (Security Advisory 4022344). Though there was general relief and kudos to Microsoft for their rapid response to this embarrassing episode, this bug was described as the “worst in recent memory” and as “crazy bad” by two of the lead researchers from Google’s Project Zero.

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A ransomware attack is spreading worldwide, using alleged NSA exploit

Credit to Author: Michael Kan| Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 10:27:00 -0700

A ransomware attack appears to be spreading around the world, leveraging a hacking tool that may have come from the U.S. National Security Agency.

The ransomware, called Wanna Decryptor, struck hospitals at the U.K.’s National Health Service on Friday, taking down some of its network.

Spain’s computer response team, CCN-CERT, has also warned of  a “massive attack” from the ransomware strain, amid reports that local telecommunications firm Telefonica was hit.

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U.K. Hospitals Hit in Widespread Ransomware Attack

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 16:54:01 +0000

At least 16 hospitals in the United Kingdom are being forced to divert emergency patients today after computer systems there were infected with ransomware, a type of malicious software that encrypts a victim’s documents, images, music and other files unless the victim pays for a key to unlock them. It remains unclear exactly how this ransomware strain is being disseminated and why it appears to have spread so quickly, but there are indications the malware may be spreading to vulnerable systems through a security hole in Windows that was recently patched by Microsoft.

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SecurityTrendMicro
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TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of May 8, 2017

Credit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 16:47:57 +0000

Although I’m still dreaming of the sandy beaches of Cancun, it’s time to get back to reality. Security vulnerabilities never take a holiday and this week is no exception. In addition to our normal Digital Vaccine (DV) package delivered earlier this week, we also issued an out-of-band DV package to address zero-day vulnerabilities for Intel…

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Is Your Security Team Setup To Fail?

Credit to Author: Mark Nunnikhoven (Vice President, Cloud Research)| Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 12:30:49 +0000

The ingredients for strong cybersecurity aren’t a secret. In fact, they haven’t changed significantly over the past 20 years—the ingredients are available to almost every organization out there. On the surface, doing security isn’t that hard:     Patch quickly and frequently. Use reasonable security controls—intrusion prevention, application control, and anti-malware—and monitor them. Use two-factor…

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This was the Sophos Webinar Week

Credit to Author: sophosbenelux| Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 15:15:34 +0000

Get the lowdown on Sophos Webinars you’ve been waiting for! We’ve persuaded four of our top security experts to step up to the microphone to share their expertise with you, for a series of 30-minute webinars. From Monday March 6th to Thursday March 9th we hosted 4 webinars on the latest security topics. Did you miss (one [&#8230;]<img alt=”” border=”0″ src=”https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=news.sophos.com&#038;blog=834173&#038;post=854&#038;subd=sophos&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1″ width=”1″ height=”1″ /><img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/f3up3-Pt6TU” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Sophos introduceert Sophos Mobile 7 Enterprise Management Solution

Credit to Author: sophosbenelux| Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 07:33:32 +0000

Sophos heeft op 27 februari Sophos Mobile 7 gelanceerd. Het is de meest recente versie van de Enterprise Mobility Management-oplossing (EMM) met onder meer ‘containerized’ ondersteuning voor Android Enterprise (voorheen ‘Anrdoid for Work’), support voor IT-beheerders om IoT-toestellen te beheren en verbeterde beveiligingsfeatures. Tevens is de oplossing beschikbaar via het cloudgebaseerde Sophos Central managementplatform. &#160; Beschikbaar [&#8230;]<img alt=”” border=”0″ src=”https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=news.sophos.com&#038;blog=834173&#038;post=844&#038;subd=sophos&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1″ width=”1″ height=”1″ /><img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/IaedcJPixMA” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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