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Credit to Author: Windows Defender ATP| Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 17:00:23 +0000
Beyond customer education, the scale and complexity of tech support scams require cooperation and broad partnerships across the industry. Given the scale and complexity of tech support scams, how can the security industry at large work together to deal a major blow to this enduring threat?
Read MoreCredit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 16:00:00 +0000
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Read MoreCredit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 14:45:13 +0000
It was a crazy week at this year’s RSA Conference in San Francisco. I always try to get a quick view of the floor to see companies old and new exhibit their wares. Unfortunately, work never sleeps when you attend a conference, and the shortage of seating at this year’s event left many, including myself,…
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Read MoreCredit to Author: Jon Clay (Global Threat Communications)| Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 14:27:01 +0000
Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, we’re following Ikea’s job marketplace, TaskRabbit, which may have suffered a data breach. Also, the U.S and U.K warn against Russian cyber attacks for individual homes and…
The post This Week in Security News: Warnings and WannaCry appeared first on .
Read MoreCredit to Author: Eugene Kaspersky| Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 14:20:03 +0000
Eugene Kaspersky on Twitter and advertising ban
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 12:59:28 +0000
Facebook has built some of the most advanced algorithms for tracking users, but when it comes to acting on user abuse reports about Facebook groups and content that clearly violate the company’s “community standards,” the social media giant’s technology appears to be woefully inadequate.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Julia Glazova| Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 13:00:18 +0000
Rumor has it that typing “BFF” as a Facebook comment checks your profile security. We investigate the claim.
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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 06:14:00 -0700
Yesterday, I talked about the weird bug that makes April’s Win7 Monthly Rollup, KB 4093118, re-install itself over and over, even when Windows Update says that it’s been installed successfully. Windows sleuth abbodi86 has discovered the source of the problem, and it should give you patching pause.
To understand how we got into this mess, you need to understand the bugs that Microsoft introduced in the March Win7 patches and their kludgey patches. Installing either the March Monthly Rollup (KB 4088875) or the March Security-only patch (KB 4088878) may knock your machine off the network. As Microsoft says: