Month: April 2018

IndependentKrebs

DDoS-for-Hire Service Webstresser Dismantled

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 17:41:37 +0000

Authorities in the U.S., U.K. and the Netherlands on Tuesday took down popular online attack-for-hire service WebStresser.org and arrested its alleged administrators. Investigators say that prior to the takedown, the service had more than 136,000 registered users and was responsible for launching somewhere between four and six million attacks over the past three years.

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MalwareBytesSecurity

Far Cry 5 download offers: embrace the power of “no”

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 16:18:42 +0000

It seems opportunists are jumping on popular video game Far Cry 5’s bandwagon, with a flood of promises for free game downloads. We take a look at a return to form for survey scams, and the odd download site while we’re at it.

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SecurityTrendMicro

Customer data & marketing operations: Keeping your data safe on the journey to GDPR compliance

Credit to Author: Steve Neville| Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 14:48:46 +0000

Emails. Web forms. Events. [Oh my!] These marketing tactics are all designed to gather, store, and evolve relationships with your prospects, customers, and partners. Often times, they are the first point of contact for your organization from the outside world—and they all feed into your marketing automation systems. With the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)…

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SecurityTrendMicro

The Risks of Bio-IoT

Credit to Author: William “Bill” Malik (CISA VP Infrastructure Strategies)| Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 13:00:34 +0000

The typical enterprise has more than 500 applications in place.

Trend Micro has been protecting its customers now for almost 30 years. Over that time our mission has not changed. We still fight every day to make the world a safer place to exchange digital information. However, our messaging has needed to evolve to take account of the ever-changing threat landscape, as well as the…

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ComputerWorldIndependent

Why we love lawyers (well, OUR lawyers, anyway)

Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 03:00:00 -0700

This IT pilot fish has spent the past year and a half helping his company’s clients prepare for the European Union’s upcoming General Data Protection Regulation, and with a month to go, it’s been smooth sailing — mostly.

“Over the last 18 months I’ve been asking my customers time and again about their readiness to implement the GDPR rules,” says fish. “We have mostly small companies as our customers, family businesses and one-to-ten-person outfits, and most of them had need of our services one way or another.

“But one customer, a lawyer, told me every time that this particular set of rules does not apply to him, because everything he does is governed by an obligation to confidentiality. Ten weeks before the final date, he still thought it had nothing to do with him.”

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