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Credit to Author: Alex Drozhzhin| Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2019 14:12:22 +0000
Changing passwords regularly is outdated. Use strong and unique passwords that are easy to remember instead. Here’s how to make them.
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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2019 09:15:00 -0800
Compared to some months last year, January has been a Microsoft patching cakewalk. We had several rounds of close calls and missed calls, as I posted earlier this week, but almost everything is cleared up.
We’ve seen a few more problems raise their ugly heads in the past few days:
Those are typical Microsoft edge-use bugs: They don’t affect many people, but if you’re one of the stuckees, you’re up the ol’ creek.
Credit to Author: Microsoft Secure Team| Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2019 17:00:00 +0000
Learn about the most potent cyberthreats to critical infrastructure and why owners and operators of critical infrastructure have a unique responsibility to undertake cyber resilience.
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Read MoreCredit to Author: Ed Cabrera (Chief Cybersecurity Officer)| Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2019 16:00:43 +0000
At Trend Micro, we’ve always been keen to collaborate with law enforcement. While we do our best to protect our customers from the latest threats, it’s only with concerted cross-border police action against the perpetrators of these crimes that we can hope to swing the pendulum back in our favor. One common target of attack…
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Read MoreCredit to Author: Jon Clay (Global Threat Communications)| Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2019 14:00:13 +0000
Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about how hackers are improving their breach strategies. Also, learn about new spyware attacks via URLs, websites, and mobile apps. Read on: Informing Your Security Posture:…
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2019 13:43:59 +0000
More than 250 customers of a popular and powerful online attack-for-hire service that was dismantled by authorities in 2018 are expected to face legal action for the damage they caused, according to Europol, the European Union’s law enforcement agency. In April 2018, investigators in the U.S., U.K. and the Netherlands took down attack-for-hire service WebStresser[.]org and arrested its alleged administrators. Prior to the takedown, the service had more than 151,000 registered users and was responsible for launching some four million attacks over three years. Now, those same authorities are targeting people who paid the service to conduct attacks.
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Credit to Author: Jörg Schindler| Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 11:46:11 +0000
Die Schadsoftware Emotet hat einen langen Atem und sucht mit ständig neuen Updates besonders perfide nach Lücken im System. Dennoch ist der Kampf nicht verloren – drei entscheidende Präventionsmaßnahmen können bereits effektiv helfen. Doch zunächst ein kleiner Exkurs zur Strategie der Cyberattacke: Der Trojaner Emotet ist darauf spezialisiert, Schutzbarrieren auszuweichen, immer wieder zuzuschlagen und sich […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/xnWlce9G_nw” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Jörg Schindler| Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 08:36:13 +0000
Familie und Freunde wohnen auf der anderen Seite der Welt? Schön für sie. Aber noch lange kein Grund, sich deswegen an Facebook zu knebeln. Denn Fotos teilen – das geht doch heute auch anders. Sophos listet die digitalen Alternativen auf, wobei diese natürlich alle ihre Tücken in Sachen Privatsphäre haben. Und dann gibt es ja […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/YV7u0Fs4Lfk” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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