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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 09:22:00 -0700

Good things come to those who wait. If you resisted the drill sergeant scream of “GET THOSE PATCHES INSTALLED AS SOON AS THEY’RE OUT, MAGGOT!” you’re about to reap your just reward.

As is so often the case, the Patch Tuesday screams are something you should consider, but they’re hardly the final word. At this point, there’s a credible threat forming for Win7 and Server 2008 R2 machines — Total Meltdown is definitely coming — but the sky hasn’t fallen. There are no known Meltdown or Spectre exploits in the wild, and all of the hell unleashed by this month’s series of patches and re-patches and pre-appended re-re-patches primarily served as demonic theater to those of us who chose to wait.

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MalwareBytes Security

April 27, 2018 admin

Malwarebytes CrackMe 2: try another challenge

Credit to Author: hasherezade| Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 15:00:00 +0000

Last November, we launched the first Malwarebytes CrackMe. Encouraged by an overwhelmingly positive response, we decided to repeat the game—this time making it even harder and more fun.

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Kaspersky Security

April 27, 2018 admin

We’re not going on a summer holiday

Credit to Author: Nadezhda Demidova| Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 13:49:49 +0000

Fake airline giveaways won’t win you a ticket, but they might steal your data.

Security TrendMicro

April 27, 2018 admin

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of April 23, 2018

Credit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 12:00:45 +0000

I was having dinner with friends recently and one of the newer members of the group asked me what I did for a living. I told him that I worked for a cybersecurity company and his reply was, “I don’t need to worry about security – I have a MacBook.” I thought that at any…

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Kaspersky Security

April 26, 2018 admin

Transatlantic Cable podcast, episode 34

Credit to Author: Jeffrey Esposito| Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 20:52:35 +0000

On this episode of the podcast, Jeff and David discuss personal data being sold on Facebook, cops trying to unlock an iPhone with a dead man’s finger, bad passwords, and more.

ScadaICS Schneider

April 26, 2018 admin

Data Center Operations Optimized Like a Race Car Team

Credit to Author: David Gentry| Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 14:44:54 +0000

Over the course of visiting some of the more than 100 data centers Schneider Electric manages, I’m continually struck by this idea: running an effective data center operations team involves… Read more »

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Kaspersky Security

April 26, 2018 admin