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Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 18:15:29 +0000
SPF is short for Sender Policy Framework, and it can help you get rid of spam and phishing emails without even looking at the email content.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/AUJjnbhdDtM” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
Read MoreCredit to Author: Jenny Erie| Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 17:00:28 +0000
In December, the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) brought the world together to talk about the internet. I tend to take a definite interest in cybersecurity, but there were many more important topics discussed. They ranged from diversity in the technology sector through to philosophy in the digital age. Cybersecurity was, nonetheless, a major theme. My
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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 06:45:00 -0800
If you’ve been playing the cat-and-mouse Microsoft patching game for a while, you know that Microsoft changes its Knowledge Base articles from time to time, without warning and at times without documentation. Now there’s a resource for those who need to know who moved their cheese — and when.
Several times in the past month, the eagle-eyed crew at AskWoody, led by @MrBrian, have found out about new Windows patches before they were announced. They’ve also looked at the raw data showing which KB articles have been changed — even if Microsoft doesn’t document the changes. The secret? A new monitoring program called KBNew.
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 14:44:23 +0000
Today, Jan. 29, is officially the first day of the 2018 tax-filing season, also known as the day that fraudsters start requesting phony tax refunds in the names of identity theft victims. Want to minimize the chances of getting hit by tax refund fraud this year? File your taxes before the bad guys can! Tax refund fraud affects hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of U.S. citizens annually. Victims usually first learn of the crime after having their returns rejected because scammers beat them to it. Even those who are not required to file a return can be victims of refund fraud, as can those who are not actually due a refund from the IRS.
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Credit to Author: Phil Quade | Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 13:45:59 +0000
At one time, we were challenged to ask not what our country could do for us but what we could do for our country. It is time that the leading organizations in digital technology come together once again to ask the same.
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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 05:49:00 -0800
As we crawl deeper down the Meltdown/Spectre bunny hole, Microsoft released on Friday night a weird, download-only patch that disables the “fix” that’s supposed to protect you against one of the Spectre variants. It’s the same patch, that works the same way, on every version of Windows, from Win7 to the latest Win10 beta builds.
I’m tempted to call it an out-of-band patch, but truth is that all of this month’s patches have been out of band.
You’ve no doubt been inundated by the news about Meltdown and Spectre, the two (actually, three) highly publicized security vulnerabilities in essentially all modern computer chips that, at this point, has never been seen on a real, live, in-the-wild computer.
CSO senior editor Michael Nadeau joins host Steve Ragan to talk about predictions for 2018, including the looming GDPR compliance deadline.
Credit to Author: Prashil Moon| Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 10:20:35 +0000
Email attachments are a favorite medium for attackers to deliver malware. They can be used to target a specific user or multiple users at the same time by launching spam email campaigns. To succeed in carrying out an intended malware attack, it is necessary that recipients of the malicious email…
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