Credit to Author: Andrew Brandt| Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 10:01:25 +0000
More than two years on, modified WannaCry variants still cause headaches for IT admins and security analysts<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/CAKv8Qp7zuI” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
Read more
Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 03:00:00 -0700
Facebook’s plans to launch its own Libra cryptocurrency next year is getting resistance from France and Germany who have promised to block it and plan to create their own national cryptocurrencies.
Last week, the two nations said Libra could threaten the Euro’s value and unlawfully privatize money. Last year, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the country’s central bank, announced a ban on the use of cryptocurrencies by any regulated financial entity because of risks associated with it.
Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 03:00:00 -0700
User comes to this support pilot fish complaining that his PC is acting strangely.
“It turns out he had gotten his computer so jammed up with spyware and Trojans that it was basically nonfunctional,” says fish. “We had to rebuild the computer from scratch.” They were able to recover much of user’s work and files, but some were irretrievably damaged — or just plain gone .
Fish explains what happened and points out the probable infection vectors. And he explains that they had recovered as much as they could, but some stuff was simply gone for good. There would be no way to get anything more.
“Two days later, he called to ask when I’m going to bring him the rest of his missing files.”
Attackers are now enabling WDigest credential caching to allow them to harvest credentials. Here’s how to spot it.
Learn about the technical details of the recently discovered Nemty ransomware, including some interesting irregularities.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/fortinet/blog/threat-research/~4/4RxOYgFbqPM” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
Credit to Author: Jeff M Miller, PE| Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 11:54:51 +0000
“Once in a while an innovative technology will catch my eye as an industry GAME CHANGER! Like when I first learned about Premset medium voltage switchgear.” Over the past 7… Read more »
The post GAME CHANGING TECH! – Shielded Solid Insulated System Medium Voltage Switchgear appeared first on Schneider Electric Blog.
Read more
Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 11:00:00 +0000
At the Defcon hacking conference next year, the Air Force will bring a satellite for fun and glory.
Read more
Credit to Author: Lauren Smiley| Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 10:00:00 +0000
Karen Navarra was a quiet woman in her sixties who lived alone. She was found beaten to death. The neighbors didn’t see anything. But her Fitbit did.
Read more
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 14:00:00 +0000
In a new memoir and interview, the world’s most famous whistle-blower elucidates as never before why he stood up to mass surveillance—and his love for an internet that no longer exists.
Read more
Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 10:56:00 -0700
Mozilla earlier this month quietly outlined paid support for enterprise users of Firefox, but last week scrubbed the reference from its website, saying that it is “still exploring that option.”
The offering – labeled “Mozilla Enterprise Client Support” – was to start at $10 per “supported installation,” which likely referred to per-device, not per-user, pricing. It’s unclear whether that was an annual or monthly fee, and Mozilla declined to say which it was when asked.
In return for the fee, Mozilla said on the now-absent Firefox enterprise site – still visible through the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine – customers would be able to privately report bugs via a new web portal and receive fixes on a timeline dependent on the impact and urgency of the problem. Customers would also be able to file requests for help with Firefox’s installation and deployment, management policies, functionality and customization.
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 15:59:02 +0000
An Ohio teen who recruited a convicted serial swatter to fake a distress call that ended in the police shooting an innocent Kansas man in 2017 has been sentenced to 15 months in prison.
Read more