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Credit to Author: Microsoft Secure Blog Staff| Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2018 16:00:59 +0000

Black Hat USA 2018 brings together professionals at all career levels, encouraging growth and collaboration among academia, world-class researchers, and leaders in the public and private sectors. Microsoft researchers, partners, and security experts will showcase the latest collaborations in defense strategies for cybersecurity, highlight solutions for security vulnerabilities in applications, and bring together an ecosystem of intelligent security solutions at this event.

Microsoft Security

August 2, 2018 admin

Protect your data in files, apps, and devices

Credit to Author: toddvanderark| Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2018 16:00:54 +0000

This blog is part of a series that responds to common questions we receive from customers about deployment of Microsoft 365 security solutions. In this blog, we dig into some of the most challenging data protection scenarios our customers encounter.

MalwareBytes Security

August 2, 2018 admin

Social engineering attacks: What makes you susceptible?

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2018 15:00:00 +0000

Cybercriminals will do what it takes to get what they want, whether that’s breaching a corporate network or stealing credentials with malware. But what do we do if hackers are hacking us instead of our computers? Here’s how to tell if you’re susceptible to social engineering attacks, and what to do to combat them.

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Kaspersky Security

August 2, 2018 admin

Financial fraud on an industrial scale

Credit to Author: Leonid Grustniy| Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2018 14:47:18 +0000

More than 400 manufacturing companies became phishing targets.

Independent Krebs

August 2, 2018 admin

The Year Targeted Phishing Went Mainstream

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2018 15:11:45 +0000

A story published here on July 12 about a new sextortion-based phishing scheme that invokes a real password used by each recipient has become the most-read piece on KrebsOnSecurity since this site launched in 2009. And with good reason — sex sells (the second most-read piece here was my 2015 scoop about the Ashley Madison hack). But beneath the lurid allure of both stories lies a more unsettling reality: It has never been easier for scam artists to launch convincing, targeted phishing and extortion scams that are automated on a global scale. And given the sheer volume of hacked and stolen personal data now available online, it seems almost certain we will soon witness many variations on these phishing campaigns that leverage customized data elements to enhance their effectiveness.

Kaspersky Security

August 2, 2018 admin

Transatlantic Cable podcast, episode 48

Credit to Author: Jeffrey Esposito| Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2018 13:36:42 +0000

In this edition of the podcast, Jeff and Dave discuss a McDonald’s Monopoly whopper, banning miners, hacking by inmates, and more.

Security TrendMicro

August 2, 2018 admin

Phishing, Part 2: Staying Safe

Credit to Author: Brook Stein, Product Management Director| Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2018 13:00:35 +0000

As mentioned in Phishing Part 1: On the Lookout, phishing attacks have been around for years, but today’s cybercriminals are adept at using them in an ever-increasing variety of ways to get what they want. According to the most recent FBI figures, phishing and its variants was the third most popular cybercrime type in 2017,…

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Attending Black Hat USA 2018? Here’s what to expect from Microsoft.

Protect your data in files, apps, and devices

Financial fraud on an industrial scale

The Year Targeted Phishing Went Mainstream

Transatlantic Cable podcast, episode 48

Phishing, Part 2: Staying Safe