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Credit to Author: John Maddison| Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 17:59:59 +0000
ShipServ, in a recent move to a more cloud-based IT infrastructure, adopted several Fortinet products to protect the company’s networks. I recently talked to Dominic Aslan, ShipServ’s vice president of IT operations, about the company’s move to the cloud and its use of Fortinet tools.
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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 07:33:00 -0800
I’ve seen a lot of bizarre Microsoft patches-of-patches, but the new patches for AMD processors are in a world of their own. The security-only, manually downloadable patches appear to be Meltdown/Spectre patches for machines that were bricked by other bad patches, earlier this month, but they’ve arrived with no instructions — and a strange circular logic.
Last week, Microsoft released two patches, with these official titles:
The Win7 KB article says:
Credit to Author: David Finger| Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 13:45:59 +0000
The challenge is that most all email security vendors say the same thing: “99.9% catch rate, no false positives, easy to manage” and so forth, which is why Fortinet is firmly committed to regular participation in independent testing. Consider, for example, the Advanced Threat Defense certification testing conducted by ICSA Labs.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Anna Markovskaya| Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 14:22:28 +0000
The Skygofree Trojan comes with a powerful array of spyware features, some unique — like turning on audio recording by geolocation and stealing private messages.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Rajib Singha| Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 13:44:52 +0000
Ever came across an online survey that promised you a handsome prize? I did. And here’s what happened. While I was going about my daily work on the Internet, I came across the below page. As you can see, I received a congratulatory message for being a loyal Google…
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Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 03:12:00 -0800
The Windows emergency security updates issued by Microsoft earlier this month came with an unprecedented prerequisite – a new key stored in the operating system’s registry – that antivirus vendors were told to generate after they’d guaranteed their code wouldn’t trigger dreaded Blue Screens of Death (BSoD) when users apply the patches.
The demands confused customers, and fueled a flood of support documents and an avalanche of web content. Those who heard about the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities struggled to figure out whether their PCs were protected, and if not, why not. Millions more, not having gotten wind of the potential threat, carried on without realizing that their PCs might be barred from receiving several months’ worth of security updates.
Credit to Author: Pradeep Kulkarni| Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 05:09:15 +0000
Earlier we had blogged about how JAVA based jRAT malware were evolved in the recent times. At Quick Heal Security Labs, we are actively observing jRAT campaigns happening in the wild. These JAVA malware spread through phishing campaigns. While analyzing one such phishing campaign, we found that an International embassy in India was being targeted by phishers. The malware used in the phishing campaign was the infamous JAVA malware called jRAT. …
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 01:41:12 +0000
Tyler Raj Barriss, a 25-year-old serial “swatter” whose phony emergency call to Kansas police last month triggered a fatal shooting, has been charged with involuntary manslaughter and faces up to eleven years in prison.
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