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WINS Server Remote Memory Corruption Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Server

Credit to Author: Honggang Ren| Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 16:19:29 +0000

Summary In December 2016, FortiGuard Labs discovered and reported a WINS Server remote memory corruption vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Server. In June of 2017, Microsoft replied to FortiGuard Labs, saying, "a fix would require a complete overhaul of the code to be considered comprehensive. The functionality provided by WINS was replaced by DNS and Microsoft has advised customers to migrate away from it." That is, Microsoft will not be patching this vulnerability due to the amount of work that would be required. Instead, Microsoft…

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New Mac Malware-as-a-Service offerings

Credit to Author: Thomas Reed| Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 15:00:01 +0000

A couple weeks ago, two new Malware-as-a-Service (MaaS) offerings for the Mac became available. We take a closer look at these two offerings – a backdoor named MacSpy and a ransomware app named MacRansom.

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Sophos annuncia i risultati finanziari dell’anno fiscale chiuso al 31 marzo 2017

Credit to Author: Tiziana Carboni| Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 06:34:07 +0000

Superate le aspettative, un flusso di cassa disponibile pari a 133 milioni di dollari  e dati positivi per tutti i prodotti e in tutto il mondo L’anno fiscale 2017 si chiude con un aumento del 18,2% del fatturato che tocca quota 631,1 milioni di dollari Sophos ha annunciato i propri risultati finanziari relativi al 2017, [&#8230;]<img alt=”” border=”0″ src=”https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=news.sophos.com&#038;blog=834173&#038;post=39995&#038;subd=sophos&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1″ width=”1″ height=”1″ /><img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/FdRdVPqiV14″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Sophos nominata visionaria nel Magic Quadrant di Gartner per l’ Enterprise Mobility Management

Credit to Author: Sophos Italia| Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 08:26:51 +0000

Per il quarto anno consecutivo Gartner ha nominato Sophos visionaria nel suo Magic Quadrant per l’Enterprise Mobility Management Suites *. Riteniamo questa una conferma del fatto che Sophos Mobile sia uno dei migliori prodotti per la gestione della mobilità e la sicurezza oggi presenti sul mercato. Per il secondo anno Sophos si è spostata verso [&#8230;]<img alt=”” border=”0″ src=”https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=news.sophos.com&#038;blog=834173&#038;post=39949&#038;subd=sophos&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1″ width=”1″ height=”1″ /><img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/VPXFsAiXVvQ” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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InfoSec 2017: uno sguardo all’album di famiglia del ransomware

Credit to Author: Sophos Italia| Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2017 15:35:00 +0000

Anche se è ormai considerato dagli addetti ai lavori un argomento ormai trito e ritrito, il ransomware è tra gli argomenti principali di InfoSec Europe 2017. La ragione? Continua a rappresentare un problema esasperante per le aziende e non smette di farla da leone nell’agenda di moltissime conferenze. Recentemente i SophosLabs hanno preso in considerazione [&#8230;]<img alt=”” border=”0″ src=”https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=news.sophos.com&#038;blog=834173&#038;post=37709&#038;subd=sophos&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1″ width=”1″ height=”1″ /><img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/b-z-U5XTX-I” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Migliora le prestazioni e la stabilità del tuo XG Firewall

Credit to Author: Sophos Italia| Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2017 05:45:42 +0000

Durante l’anno abbiamo implementato centinaia di miglioramenti all’XG Firewall tramite i rilasci di manutenzione. Ognuna di queste release include miglioramenti alla performance, alla stabilità e al funzionamento del vostro XG Firewall. Esse includono correzioni di bug, una maggiore efficienza e una migliore interfaccia utente. Negli ultimi aggiornamenti abbiamo migliorato il funzionamento di numerose aree chiave: [&#8230;]<img alt=”” border=”0″ src=”https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=news.sophos.com&#038;blog=834173&#038;post=37185&#038;subd=sophos&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1″ width=”1″ height=”1″ /><img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/QLHRyvp9n44″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Evolving towards a Homogenous Society: The Risk of the New Digital Economy

Credit to Author: Derek Manky| Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 13:02:02 +0000

The recent WannaCry attack was interesting for a couple of reasons. First, the speed and scale of the attack was impressive. Over the course of a couple of days, hundreds of thousands of systems were affected and disrupted. Second, it also unveiled a disturbing trend. The attack malware exploited a known vulnerability that not only had been revealed through the highly public release of stolen cyber tools, but Microsoft had also released a patch for the targeted vulnerability over two months before. Which means that the scale of the attack was…

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Sophos wins big at the SC Magazine Awards 2017

Credit to Author: Rich Beckett| Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 11:06:12 +0000

The only vendor to win in multiple categories, Sophos take home a trio of awards at the SC Awards 2017 for XG Firewall, Web Gateway and Sophos Email.<img alt=”” border=”0″ src=”https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=news.sophos.com&#038;blog=834173&#038;post=39933&#038;subd=sophos&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1″ width=”1″ height=”1″ /><img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/mgxGrIp1C4U” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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