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Credit to Author: Emily Dreyfuss| Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 23:40:47 +0000
Drafting sane tech policy is hard. But that’s no excuse for not doing it, as Comey’s tenure as FBI Director proves. The post The Real Threat to Our Government Is Tech Illiteracy appeared first on WIRED.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 23:25:05 +0000
A Russian photographer in the White House has raised suspicions of surveillance. But the real issue is Trump’s lack of security care. The post You Can’t Bug the Oval Office (For Long, Anyway) appeared first on WIRED.
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Credit to Author: Phil Quade| Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 15:35:35 -0700
President Trump just signed a new cybersecurity Executive Order that has important implications, not only for federal agencies, but for Critical Infrastructures as well.
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Credit to Author: Michael Kan| Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 14:28:00 -0700
President Donald Trump has finally signed a long-awaited executive order on cybersecurity, and he called for the U.S. government to move more into the cloud and modernize its IT infrastructure.
The order, signed on Thursday, is designed to “centralize risk” and move the government’s agencies toward shared IT services, White House homeland security adviser Tom Bossert said in a press briefing
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Credit to Author: Dehui Yin| Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 12:13:08 -0700
A Windows 2003 RDP Zero Day Exploit In this blog, the FortiGuard team takes a look at Esteemaudit, which is an exploit that was included in the set of cybertools leaked by the hacker group known as "Shadow Brokers." They claim that they collected this set of cybertools from the compromised data of "Equation Group," a threat actor alleged to be tied to the United States National Security Agency (NSA). Esteemaudit is a Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) exploit that targets Microsoft Windows Server 2003 / Windows XP. The vulnerability…
Read MoreCredit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 17:11:12 +0000
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| The dreaded Necurs botnet delivers a new ransomware with a high ransom ask in this newest spam campaign. Categories: Tags: JaffJaff ransomwareLockyLocky ransomwarenecursransomwarespam |
The post New ‘Jaff’ ransomware via Necurs asks for 2 BTC appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
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Credit to Author: John Maddison| Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 06:42:08 -0700
Far too often, security tools are wrapped in marketing language that doesn’t always effectively communicate—or sometimes, even intentionally obscures—what a device or tool is able to do. Visit any security trade show and you are going to be overwhelmed by devices claiming to be “cloud enabled” or that offer “advanced threat intelligence.” But what do those terms mean? The same is true for entire classes of products.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Ed Cabrera (Chief Cybersecurity Officer)| Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 13:08:36 +0000
From cash-hungry hackers to state-sponsored spies and careless insiders, there’s no shortage of cyber threats facing healthcare organizations (HCOs) today. At Trend Micro, we’ve been protecting organizations operating in the industry for years, but the challenges facing these customers show no signs of abating. In fact, figures from the US Department of Health and Human…