Month: April 2019

MalwareBytesSecurity

Consumers have few legal options for protecting privacy

Credit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 17:03:20 +0000

Amidst never-ending headlines about data breaches, data misuse, and opaque data-sharing agreements from major companies, users have few legal options to actually protect their privacy in court. Instead, they rely on technology.

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Security theater, ’80s style

Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 03:00:00 -0700

It’s the late 1980s and pilot fish is working on business application development for an aerospace and defense contractor where physical security is surprisingly lax. There’s a guard on duty at the front desk during business hours, but that’s about the extent of it. That changes with the announcement that all personal gear will be subject to inspection on leaving the building.
Now there are guards 24/7, and everyone leaving the building is politely requested by those guards to open their briefcases and backpacks. The guards then take a look inside before waving the owners through.
Rumor has it that this security push came about because some Apple Mac computers have gone missing. And it continues for about six months, and then suddenly ceases.
What happened? Employees have to rely on rumor again, which holds that the cleaning crew had taken the Macs, which makes sense given that large, wheeled trashcans would make the job easy.
The exit checks never turned up anything, but even law-abiding pilot fish can’t help but notice that it would be pretty easy to cover any contraband in a bag with a few clothes or newspapers and never be discovered, given the cursory nature of the searches.

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Who’s Behind the RevCode WebMonitor RAT?

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 19:43:02 +0000

The owner of a Swedish company behind a popular remote administration tool (RAT) implicated in thousands of malware attacks shares the same name as a Swedish man who pleaded guilty in 2015 to co-creating the Blackshades RAT, a similar product that was used to infect more than half a million computers with malware, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.

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Dallas Start-Ups (submission extended): Pitch Us Your Ideas for a Smarter Connected World

Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2019 13:00:40 +0000

updated April 22, 2019 At Trend Micro we’ve spent the past three decades successfully solving problems for our customers. It’s helped us to become a leading provider of services to secure the connected world. But we’re not done there. We also want to find and learn from the technology innovators and problem-solvers of tomorrow. That’s…

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MalwareBytesSecurity

Of hoodies and headphones: a spotlight on risks surrounding audio output devices

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 18:15:34 +0000

For years, researchers have been poking holes in our audio output devices in the name of security and privacy. They’ve found many ways our headphones can be hacked or otherwise compromised. Learn what they discovered, and how you can secure your own.

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5 tips to maintain and protect your electrical equipment from animal-caused outages

Credit to Author: Roger Casellas| Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 14:16:37 +0000

There are many things that can cause a power outage, wildlife is one of those. Animal intrusion into utility and industrial substations causes a significant number of outages that are… Read more »

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