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Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 15:56:29 +0000

Variety is welcome in most walks of life, but not when it comes to the threat landscape. Yet that is unfortunately the reality facing modern cybersecurity professionals. As Trend Micro’s 2019 roundup report reveals, hackers have an unprecedented array of tools, techniques and procedures at their disposal today. With 52 billion unique threats detected by…

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Security Sophos

February 25, 2020 admin

How I learned to stop worrying and love ‘grey hat’ tools

Credit to Author: Tad Heppner| Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 13:45:19 +0000

A comprehensive security solution needs a sense of subtlety: not all machine code lends itself to be classified easily as malicious. As with most things in life, there’s a grey area in malware detection that includes hacking tools, poorly designed or easily exploitable applications, or borderline adware that provides little benefit to the unfortunate user […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/TR1pieWZO1k” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

Security Sophos

February 25, 2020 admin

‘Cloud Snooper’ Attack Bypasses Firewall Security Measures

Credit to Author: Sergei Shevchenko| Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 13:30:43 +0000

In the course of investigating a malware infection of cloud infrastructure servers hosted in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud, SophosLabs discovered a sophisticated attack that employed a unique combination of techniques to evade detection and that permits the malware to communicate freely with its command and control (C2) servers through a firewall that should, […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/IHnT34CbOqM” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

Security TrendMicro

February 25, 2020 admin

In Safe Hands with Trend Micro Home Network Security – Part 3: Testing Its Functions

Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 14:05:34 +0000

We continue our four-part series on protecting your home and family. See the links to the previous parts at the end of this blog. As you use more internet-connected devices and smart appliances in your home, it’s of utmost importance to make sure your gadgets are properly protected from malware and hackers—and Trend Micro Home…

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ComputerWorld Independent

February 25, 2020 admin

Top secret

Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 03:00:00 -0800

It’s back when 5-inch floppy disks roamed the Earth, and a customer service tech sends a software update to a customer known to be a bit more than a little computer-challenged, says a pilot fish in the know. This involves physically mailing a stack of disks to the customer, along with a note saying to call the tech when she’s ready to install the update.

When the call comes, the tech is prepared to walk her through the installation step by step. After getting the computer booted up and verifying that the user has located disk No. 1, the tech says, “Insert the floppy disk into the disk drive, with the label facing up.”

Customer: “Done.”

Tech: “Type ‘A,’ and press the Enter key.”

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Kaspersky Security

February 25, 2020 admin