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Host Steve Ragan reports from the show floor at RSA 2018, talking with guest Israel Barak, CISO at Cybereason, about his firm's recent honeypot research, which gathered information showing how the bot landscape is evolving.
Credit to Author: Louis-François Bernard| Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 14:59:42 +0000
A new tool is coming soon to help data center operators improve the performance of their critical infrastructure: Benchmarking. Made possible by cloud-based architectures and Internet of Things (IoT) technology,… Read more »
The post How Benchmarking Helps Improve Critical Data Center Infrastructure Reliability and Performance appeared first on Schneider Electric Blog.
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Credit to Author: Katie Worth| Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 11:00:00 +0000
We leave traces of our genetic material everywhere, even on things we’ve never touched. That got Lukis Anderson charged with a brutal crime he didn’t commit.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 21:21:58 +0000
The OURSA security conference offered a place for diverse voices in security, a counterpoint to the corporate hegemony of RSA.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 16:42:51 +0000
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| Malware research analyst Chris Boyd recently had an in-depth chat with SCMagazine about Russian hacking, malware, and social engineering. Here, he summarizes some of the key findings from his discussion and the other researchers interviewed. Categories: Tags: APTfundingnation stateransomwarerussiasocial networksspam botstwitteruk |
The post Perspectives on Russian hacking appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Windows Defender ATP| Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 16:00:57 +0000
At Microsoft, we want users to be in control of their devices, including knowing the security health of these devices. If important security features should fail, users should be aware. Windows Defender System Guard runtime attestation, a new Windows platform security technology, fills this need. In Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, we reorganized all system
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Credit to Author: JR Raphael| Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 09:30:00 -0700
You might not know it from all the panic-inducing headlines out there, but Android is actually packed with powerful and practical security features. Some are activated by default and protecting you whether you realize it or not, while others are more out of the way but equally deserving of your attention.
So stop wasting your time worrying about the Android malware monster du jour and which security company is using it to scare you into an unnecessary subscription, and take a moment instead to look through these far more impactful Android security settings — starting with the core elements and moving from there into some more advanced and easily overlooked options.
Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 08:11:00 -0700
Last week, Microsoft quietly re-released its buggy April Win7 Monthly Rollup patch, KB 4093118. You may recall the patch as a reaction to the Carnak the Magnificent situation we had with the original version of KB 4093118.
With the re-release earlier this week of the original Carnak patch, KB 4099950, it’s not clear to me what the recommended installation sequence might be. But this much I know for sure. People all over the internet are complaining that this new version of KB 4093118 installs itself over and over again.