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Credit to Author: Ed Cabrera (Chief Cybersecurity Officer)| Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 12:00:32 +0000
As we predicted in 2016, cyberpropaganda is a major growth area for cybercriminals. Per that prediction, “The rise in the Internet penetration has opened the opportunity for invested parties to use the Internet as a free-for-all tool to influence public opinion to go one way or another.” Today, we know this through Wikileaks and self-proclaimed…
Credit to Author: Aamir Lakhani| Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 01:59:34 +0000
We aren’t talking about some potential future threat. Our FortiGuard Labs team just reported on a new ransomware variant targeting Mac devices. Which means it’s time to get serious about protecting these (Mac) devices.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 23:10:22 +0000
While it sounds similar to Business Email Compromise, Business Process Compromise is an entirely new beast.
Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 20:26:16 +0000
How are cybercriminals able to flip the board on the security measures consumers as well as businesses utilize to safeguard their most important data and content?
Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 12:57:00 -0700
A month ago, Microsoft took the unprecedented step of issuing security patches for Windows XP, an edition supposedly interred in Support Cemetery more than three years ago.
The decision to help aged personal computers running Windows XP — as well as also-retired Windows 8 and Windows Server 2003 — was intended to slow the spread of the “WannaCry” ransomware, which encrypted files on hundreds of thousands of PCs worldwide. The cyber criminals than tried to extort payments from the machines’ owners in return for unlocking the files.
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Credit to Author: Mike Hagan| Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 18:45:39 +0000
In such a dynamic and ever-changing industry, it’s important to hear from our customers about their quickly evolving challenges and learn more about the trends they’re seeing in their customers’… Read more »
The post Market Pulse: Challenges and Trends in Colocation appeared first on Schneider Electric Blog.
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Credit to Author: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols| Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 11:19:00 -0700
Because Windows doesn’t make much money for Microsoft these days, the company decided, beginning in Windows 10, that snooping on users à la Google and Facebook could be profitable. But one country said enough was enough. It would stand up for its users’ “privacy.” That country? The People’s Republic of China.
Cough. Didn’t see that one coming, did you?
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Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 16:58:27 +0000
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| A compilation of notable security news and blog posts from the 5th of June to the 11th. We touched on topics like HTTPS, a nasty adware, LatentBot, and other fighters against tech support scams. Categories: Tags: cybersecurityexploit kitfireballmalwarePieter ArntzrecapsecuritySocial Engineeringweekly blog roundup |
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