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Credit to Author: Ken Mingis, Juliet Beauchamp, Lucas Mearian| Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2020 10:30:00 -0800

Apple is the latest company to join the FIDO Alliance, an industry standards group committed to finding more secure ways to log in to online accounts and apps. The FIDO Alliance pushes for multi-factor authentication (MFA) deployment, from biometric authentication to physical security keys. Computerworld’s Lucas Mearian joins Ken and Juliet to discuss why Apple joined the FIDO Alliance, how different forms of authentication work and how far away we are from a password-less world.

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ComputerWorld Independent

March 17, 2020 admin

Mitigate your risk of getting hacked with help from with this online academy

Credit to Author: DealPost Team| Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2020 09:57:00 -0800

Cyber crime rates are on the rise. In fact, according to this 2019 Juniper Research paper, the financial burden of this global nuisance is expected to surpass $2 trillion in 2020 alone. But don’t panic. It turns out that education plays a major role in mitigating the risks, which is why grabbing a lifetime subscription to the CyberTraining 365 Online Academy is money well spent.

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MalwareBytes Security

March 17, 2020 admin

Child identity theft, part 2: How to reclaim your child’s identity

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 16:33:29 +0000

In part 2 of our series on child identity theft, we examine the signs their PII might be compromised and how to reclaim your child’s identity if it is. We also list ways to protect their data and ID in the future.

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Awareness

Tags: child identity fraud child identity theft familiar fraud identity compromise identity fraud identity theft new account fraud personally identifiable information reclaim child identity reclaim identity

Independent Krebs

March 17, 2020 admin

Coronavirus Widens the Money Mule Pool

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 22:11:46 +0000

With many people being laid off or working from home thanks to the Coronavirus pandemic, cybercrooks are almost certain to have more than their usual share of recruitable “money mules” — people who get roped into money laundering schemes under the pretense of a work-at-home job offer. Here’s the story of one upstart mule factory that spoofs a major nonprofit and tells new employees they’ll be collecting and transmitting donations for an international “Coronavirus Relief Fund.”

Independent Krebs

March 17, 2020 admin

The Web’s Bot Containment Unit Needs Your Help

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2020 12:55:01 +0000

Anyone who’s seen the 1984 hit movie Ghostbusters likely recalls the pivotal scene where a government bureaucrat orders the shutdown of the ghost containment unit, effectively unleashing a pent-up phantom menace on New York City. Now, something similar is in danger of happening in cyberspace: Shadowserver.org, an all-volunteer nonprofit organization that works to help Internet service providers (ISPs) identify and quarantine malware infections and botnets, has lost its longtime primary source of funding.

MalwareBytes Security

March 17, 2020 admin

Lock and Code S1Ep2: On the challenges of managed service providers

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2020 15:28:35 +0000

On episode 2 of Lock and Code, we discuss the latest security news, including how to secure remote workers, security conferences cancelled because of coronavirus, and Google Play’s poor performance on stopping malware. Plus, we speak to two MSP representatives on the daily challenges of managing thousands of endpoints.

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Podcast

Tags: bec conficker coronavirus fingerprint files MSP phishing scam play protect remote skimmer smbv3 spear phishing

Independent Krebs

March 17, 2020 admin

Live Coronavirus Map Used to Spread Malware

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 15:53:26 +0000

Cybercriminals constantly latch on to news items that captivate the public’s attention, but usually they do so by sensationalizing the topic or spreading misinformation about it. Recently, however, cybercrooks have started disseminating real-time, accurate information about global infection rates tied to the Coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic in a bid to infect computers with malicious software.

MalwareBytes Security

March 17, 2020 admin

APT36 jumps on the coronavirus bandwagon, delivers Crimson RAT

Credit to Author: Threat Intelligence Team| Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2020 15:00:00 +0000

We look at a spear phishing attack from APT36, an Advanced Persistent Threat group posing as the government of India and offering guidance on coronavirus. Instead, users are infected with a Crimson RAT that steals data.

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Threat analysis

Tags: APT APT36 coronavirus coronavirus malware covid-19 credential stealer crimson rat exploit exploits info-stealer macro malicious macro malware nation-state attack rat remote administration tool Social Engineering spear phishing spear phishing attack transparent tribe

Computer Security Articles

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FIDO Alliance and the future of passwords

Mitigate your risk of getting hacked with help from with this online academy

Child identity theft, part 2: How to reclaim your child’s identity

Coronavirus Widens the Money Mule Pool

The Web’s Bot Containment Unit Needs Your Help

Lock and Code S1Ep2: On the challenges of managed service providers

Live Coronavirus Map Used to Spread Malware