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IndependentKrebs

Hanging Up on Mobile in the Name of Security

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 17:01:36 +0000

An entrepreneur and virtual currency investor is suing AT&T for $224 million, claiming the wireless provider was negligent when it failed to prevent thieves from hijacking his mobile account and stealing millions of dollars in cryptocurrencies. Increasingly frequent, high-profile attacks like these are prompting some experts to say the surest way to safeguard one’s online accounts may be to disconnect them from the mobile providers entirely.

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MicrosoftSecurity

Partnering with the industry to minimize false positives

Credit to Author: Windows Defender ATP| Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 17:00:27 +0000

Every day, antivirus capabilities in Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (Windows Defender ATP) protect millions of customers from threats. To effectively scale protection, Windows Defender ATP uses intelligent systems that combine multiple layers of machine learning models, behavior-based detection algorithms, generics, and heuristics that make a verdict on suspicious files, most of the time in

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ComputerWorldIndependent

Throwback Thursday: How did…er, DIDN'T he do that?

Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 03:00:00 -0700

It’s 1977, and this network analyst pilot fish is working at a newly constructed data center — one with a big fence.

“The company had just gotten a new sense of needing physical security, so they had included a new, state-of-the-art security system,” says fish.

“It had electronic locks at a handful of doors in the building, a 10-foot-high fence with a motorized gate, and key-card reader stations by each of the locked doors and the gate.”

One day, company needs to bring a new communications line up between the data center and an office 10 miles away. Fish’s team leader decides the best way to do this without disrupting the users is to have fish go to the remote office at 4:30 a.m., while his team leader goes to the data center.

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