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Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 15:00:00 +0000
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| When threat actors take to free and disposable cloud services, the battle against malicious cryptomining becomes a lot more difficult. Categories: Tags: adblockersblacklistcoinhivecryptominerscryptominingGitHub |
The post Malicious cryptomining and the blacklist conundrum appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 12:12:31 +0000
Multiple security firms recently identified cryptocurrency mining service Coinhive as the top malicious threat to Web users, thanks to the tendency for Coinhive’s computer code to be used on hacked Web sites to steal the processing power of its visitors’ devices. This post looks at how Coinhive vaulted to the top of the threat list less than a year after its debut, and explores clues about the possible identities of the individuals behind the service.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Sharky| Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 03:00:00 -0700
Manager at this software vendor insists on having admin rights to every system, and she likes to set passwords that consist of the name of the company’s flagship product, reports a pilot fish working there.
“She would use ourproductname1 — or ourproductname1! if that didn’t satisfy complexity requirements — for production systems,” fish says. “Sending her a copy of our organization’s security requirements didn’t seem to help.
“Thankfully, as our product matured, more and more of the older systems came offline and were replaced by me with newer systems and secure passwords.
“One fine morning I received a barrage of alerts that our SaaS product was down. Looking through the logs, I saw a multitude of authentication errors from attempted database connections.
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2018 11:00:00 +0000
No matter how much mystique a hacker persona has, the individual or group behind it inevitably makes operations security errors sometimes.
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Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2018 13:00:00 +0000
Reddit bans, Atlanta ransomware, and more of the week’s top security news.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 19:49:06 +0000
With $380 million in the spending bill earmarked for securing digital elections, the time for talk is over.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Greg Jones| Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 18:15:03 +0000
As CTO for the IT Division, Schneider Electric’s Kevin Brown is charged with infusing innovation into all the products and services Schneider Electric delivers to its customers. So, it’s always… Read more »
The post Schneider Electric CTO Lays Out Solutions to Help Colocation Providers Deal with Growth, Maintain Efficiency appeared first on Schneider Electric Blog.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Caterina Thoma| Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 15:00:29 +0000
A healthcare setting is a great example of an environment that can’t afford to suffer disruptions. Consider a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine, which is important in not only the… Read more »
The post Why MRI Machine Cooling is Critical to Reliability and Patient Satisfaction appeared first on Schneider Electric Blog.
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