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Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 17:07:19 +0000

Love is in the air, and so are the hopes of scammers wanting to make a quick buck at your expense. Shore up your digital defenses this Valentine’s Day with a look at some of the common problem areas.

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Microsoft Security

February 14, 2018 admin

How artificial intelligence stopped an Emotet outbreak

Credit to Author: Windows Defender ATP| Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 14:43:26 +0000

At 12:46 a.m. local time on February 3, a Windows 7 Pro customer in North Carolina became the first would-be victim of a new malware attack campaign for Trojan:Win32/Emotet. In the next 30 minutes, the campaign tried to attack over a thousand potential victims, all of whom were instantly and automatically protected by Windows Defender

Fortinet Security

February 14, 2018 admin

Using MSSPs to Secure SD-WAN

Credit to Author: Matthew Pley| Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 13:45:59 +0000

It’s been said that a rising tide lifts all boats. It turns out, however, that it doesn’t lift them all at the same time. Boats way in the back of the harbor, a little higher up on the shore, tend to have to wait a bit longer for the tide to reach them. In networking terms, those boats are just a bit beyond the reach of the first waves of the incoming tide of digital transformation. While networks have been in transition for the past few years, traditional connectivity comes with its own set of obstacles. Mainly because it has historically…

Kaspersky Security

February 14, 2018 admin

Scary apps on Google Play, and what to do about them

Credit to Author: Vladislav Tushkanov| Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 14:00:53 +0000

A lot of mobile apps and Web services rated for any age can actually expose your kids to scary content. We have tips on how to deal with that.

ComputerWorld Independent

February 14, 2018 admin

Microsoft to cover Windows 7 with advanced threat service

Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 04:39:00 -0800

Microsoft plans to extend support for its Windows Defender ATP service to devices running older operating systems, including Windows 7.

The decision, announced this week, is a turn-about for Microsoft, which had limited the service to Windows 10 machines. In a post to a company blog, a Microsoft director cited customers’ heterogeneous set-ups to explain the change.

“We know that while in their transition, some [customers] may have a mix of Windows 10 and Windows 7 devices in their environments,” wrote Rob Lefferts of the Windows group’s security and enterprise team. “We want to help our customers achieve the best security possible on their way to Windows 10 ahead of the end of support for Windows 7 in January 2020.”

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QuickHeal Security

February 14, 2018 admin

A massive security flaw discovered in Skype. Fix not coming anytime soon.

Credit to Author: Shriram Munde| Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 09:10:30 +0000

Quick Heal Security Labs has recently learned about a serious vulnerability in Skype’s update installer – that’s the bad news. The worse news is, Microsoft is not going to patch the vulnerability anytime soon as this would require the updater to go through a ‘large code revision’. What is this…

Kaspersky Security

February 14, 2018 admin

Three reasons to register for the TEISS 2018 online workshop

Credit to Author: David Buxton| Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 08:17:03 +0000

We’re hosting an online workshop at the European Information Security Summit 2018 to help businesses get their networks prepared for new and emerging threats.

Independent Krebs

February 13, 2018 admin

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, February 2018 Edition

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 21:13:27 +0000

Microsoft today released a bevy of security updates to tackle more than 50 serious weaknesses in Windows, Internet Explorer/Edge, Microsoft Office and Adobe Flash Player, among other products. A good number of the patches issued today ship with Microsoft’s “critical” rating, meaning the problems they fix could be exploited remotely by miscreants or malware to seize complete control over vulnerable systems — with little or no help from users.