June 2018 – Page 26 – Computer Security Articles

Credit to Author: Louis-François Bernard| Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2018 08:36:00 +0000

If you’re not yet convinced that Internet of Things (IoT) technology is having a profound impact on all sorts of businesses, then attending the recent Hannover Messe would likely have… Read more »

The post Takeaway from Hannover Messe: The Internet of Things is Becoming Even More Valuable appeared first on Schneider Electric Blog.

Security Wired

June 7, 2018 admin

Britannica Insights Is a Chrome Extension to Fix False Google Results

Credit to Author: Louise Matsakis| Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2018 13:00:00 +0000

Encyclopedia Britannica released a Chrome extension designed to fix Google’s sometimes inaccurate “featured snippets.”

Independent Krebs

June 7, 2018 admin

Adobe Patches Zero-Day Flash Flaw

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2018 16:37:50 +0000

Adobe has released an emergency update to address a critical security hole in its Flash Player browser plugin that is being actively exploited to deploy malicious software. If you’ve got Flash installed — and if you’re using Google Chrome or a recent version of Microsoft Windows you do — it’s time once again to make sure your copy of Flash is either patched, hobbled or removed.

MalwareBytes Security

June 7, 2018 admin

Malware analysis: decoding Emotet, part 2

Credit to Author: Vishal Thakur| Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2018 15:00:00 +0000

In part two of our series on decoding Emotet, we analyze the PowerShell code flow and structure. We also reconstruct the command-line arguments—for fun!

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Tags: code analysis downloader emotet encryption powershell

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The post Malware analysis: decoding Emotet, part 2 appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Microsoft Security

June 7, 2018 admin

Machine learning vs. social engineering

Credit to Author: Windows Defender ATP| Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2018 13:00:56 +0000

Machine learning is a key driver in the constant evolution of security technologies at Microsoft. Machine learning allows Microsoft 365 to scale next-gen protection capabilities and enhance cloud-based, real-time blocking of new and unknown threats. Just in the last few months, machine learning has helped us to protect hundreds of thousands of customers against ransomware,

Security Sophos

June 7, 2018 admin

Cybercriminals are after your servers too!

Credit to Author: gailferreirasophos| Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2018 12:38:32 +0000

It’s not just your endpoints that need protecting…<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/5XsZQwBFINg” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

ComputerWorld Independent

June 7, 2018 admin

Apple's Health Record API released to third-party developers; is it safe?

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2018 03:11:00 -0700

Apple at its Worldwide Developers Conference this week released an API that allows developers and researchers to create applications that connect to Health Records, a feature released with iOS 11.3 that allows patients to port their electronic health info to mobile devices and share data between care providers.

While the move promises to streamline the sharing of healthcare data, it also could open the door to that highly sensitive data falling into the wrong hands.

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Kaspersky Security

June 6, 2018 admin