Month: April 2018

MicrosoftSecurity

Investing in the right innovation

Credit to Author: Jenny Erie| Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 16:00:33 +0000

RSA is around the corner which means tens of thousands of people will descend on Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA. Hundreds of innovative young companies will look for customers, props, and capital (especially at the Early Stage Expo!). Venture capitalists will look for opportunities to invest and find the next $1B IPO. Larger companies

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MalwareBytesSecurity

‘FakeUpdates’ campaign leverages multiple website platforms

Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 15:00:00 +0000

Browser update? Do not trust, and do verify before downloading potential malware.

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ComputerWorldIndependent

Root Cause Analysis

Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 03:00:00 -0700

The company this pilot fish works for is acquired by a larger outfit, and everyone gets a new login based on just the employee’s family name — which in fish’s case is Root.

“That should have been a non-issue with any other name,” says fish. “But when the administrators created my account, they apparently didn’t think about the fact that root is the superuser account in our Unix systems.

“Following the instructions provided in an email, I logged in and changed the password on my ‘root’ account. The next time I logged in, the password didn’t work. I called the help desk for the new company and they reset my password — and it worked until I logged off and tried to log back in.

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