April 2019 – Page 16 – Computer Security Articles

Credit to Author: Gregory Bouchery| Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 19:02:56 +0000

If you have ever mounted manually a panel or if you are regularly doing some handicraft at home, you do know that creating a square cut-out with a jigsaw is… Read more »

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Security Wired

April 16, 2019 admin

Microsoft Email Hack Shows the Lurking Danger of Customer Support

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 21:33:26 +0000

Hackers spent months with full access to Outlook, Hotmail, and MSN email accounts—and got in through Microsoft’s customer support platform.

Kaspersky Security

April 16, 2019 admin

Startups and information security

Credit to Author: Leonid Grustniy| Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 12:15:33 +0000

What makes startups dependent on data protection for success?

ComputerWorld Independent

April 16, 2019 admin

Win7/8.1/Server patch conflicts abated, somewhat, but it’s still too early to install the April crop

Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 08:02:00 -0700

A week ago, Microsoft released six patches that brought many machines to their knees. As I explained last Friday, when the dust cleared, it was apparent that all six of these April patches:

Win7 and Server 2008 R2 Monthly Rollup (KB 4493472) and Security-only (KB 4493448) patches
Win8.1 and Server 2012 R2 Monthly Rollup (KB 4493446) and Security-only (KB 4493467) patches
Server 2012 Monthly Rollup (KB 4493451) and Security-only (KB 4493450 ) patches

would trigger blue screens on reboot on most systems running Sophos antivirus products, and many systems running AV products from Avast and Avira.

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MalwareBytes Security

April 16, 2019 admin

Hackers snab emails and more in Microsoft Outlook, Hotmail, and MSN compromise

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 15:30:20 +0000

Hackers made use of a compromised Microsoft support agent’s credentials to sneak a peek at its users’ Hotmail, MSN, and Outlook emails. How bad is it, and what has Microsoft done to correct it?

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Tags: email hotmail live microsoft ms msn Outlook

MalwareBytes Security

April 16, 2019 admin

Electrum Bitcoin wallets under siege

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 15:00:00 +0000

Threat actors are relentlessly phishing and attacking Electrum Bitcoin wallet users, racking up millions of dollars.

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Tags: bitcoin bitcoins botnet ddos Electrum exploit kit exploits RIG RIG EK vulnerabilities wallet

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Security TrendMicro

April 16, 2019 admin

Continuing Education On Cyber Threats And Defenses

Credit to Author: Jon Clay (Global Threat Communications)| Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 13:00:05 +0000

Anyone who has been in cybersecurity for any length of time knows, the threat landscape is constantly changing and requires regularly monitoring of news, blogs, podcasts, and other ways to ensure you know what is happening today. I have tried to bring this information to the public since starting my monthly threat webinar series in…

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QuickHeal Security

April 16, 2019 admin

PCs fail to boot up / Freeze after receiving Microsoft Windows 9-April-2019 updates and rebooting the PC

Credit to Author: Sushmita Kalashikar| Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 09:59:29 +0000

Quick Heal and Seqrite users are reporting that PCs fails to boot up / Freeze after installing 9th April Windows Updates and Rebooting the system. Symptoms: Users have Quick Heal or Seqrite product installed and running on their systems. The PCs fail to boot up / Freeze after installing Windows Updates of 9-April-2019 and Rebootingthe system. There are…