June 2018 – Page 20 – Computer Security Articles

Credit to Author: Wendy Moore| Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 12:00:30 +0000

Containers present a new opportunity for teams. An opportunity to deploy faster, more consistently, and with a simplicity rarely seen. But in order to make that happen a lot of infrastructure needs to be setup ahead of time. A cluster of hosts for the container runtime, an orchestration layer, and—of course—security throughout. To simplify this…

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Kaspersky Security

June 13, 2018 admin

GPS trackers: Cyberpoaching paradise

Credit to Author: Julia Glazova| Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 13:00:06 +0000

How tools designed to study and protect rare species can turn from gamekeeper to poacher.

Independent Krebs

June 12, 2018 admin

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, June 2018 Edition

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 21:04:05 +0000

Microsoft today pushed out a bevy of software updates to fix more than four dozen security holes in Windows and related software. Almost a quarter of the vulnerabilities addressed in this month’s patch batch earned Microsoft’s “critical” rating, meaning malware or miscreants can exploit the flaws to break into vulnerable systems without any help from users.

ComputerWorld Independent

June 12, 2018 admin

Apple bans cryptocurrency mining apps on iOS to protect mobile users

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 12:36:00 -0700

Using an iPad or iPhone to mine bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies would be hard to do, as the CPU power available to complete the task would be a drop in the bucket compared to what’s needed.

But using a portion of the CPU power from thousands of iPads or iPhones to mine cryptocurrency makes more sense – and that’s exactly what some malware has been doing.

Apple is now moving to stop the practice.

[ Further reading: The way blockchain-based cryptocurrencies are governed could soon change ]

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MalwareBytes Security

June 12, 2018 admin

Exploit kits: Spring 2018 review

Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 19:04:14 +0000

In this Spring 2018 snapshot, we review the top exploit kits observed in the wild.

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Tags: EK EKs exploit kits grandsoft GreenFlash Sundown Magnitude RIG

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Microsoft Security

June 12, 2018 admin

Updating your cybersecurity strategy to enable and accelerate digital transformation

Credit to Author: Microsoft Secure Blog Staff| Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 19:00:35 +0000

This post is authored by Cyril Voisin, Cheif Security Advisor, Enterprise Cybersecurity Group. Nowadays every company is becoming a digital company to some extent. Digital transformation changes the way business is done. For example, it puts more control into the hands of employees, who now demand anytime, anywhere connectivity to the solutions and data they

Security Wired

June 12, 2018 admin

North Korea Has Promised to Denuclearize Lots of Times Already

Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 18:12:31 +0000

Donald Trump got out of Kim Jong Un a promise that North Korea has already made—and broken—multiple times.

ScadaICS Schneider

June 12, 2018 admin

Buildings Re-Invented Part 2: How to Turn Buildings Data Chaos Into Meaningful Insights

Credit to Author: Laurent Bataille| Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 13:20:05 +0000

In my last blog, I discussed the trends leading to the re-invention of buildings. In this blog, I will discuss how buildings can become optimized by translating data into meaningful… Read more »

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