Google’s ‘Advanced Protection’ Locks Down Accounts Like Never Before
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 11:00:00 +0000
Google offers a powerful new security setting aimed its most (rightfully) paranoid users.
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Amazon wants to deliver groceries to your car trunk — not a good idea
Credit to Author: Evan Schuman| Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 03:00:00 -0700
In the minds of mobile shoppers, where is the line between convenience and personal space/privacy? We now have two retailers — Walmart and Amazon, the giants of in-store and online shopping, respectively — separately testing programs to deliver purchases directly into your home or your car trunk when the shopper is nowhere near.
Both efforts rely on mobile devices connecting shoppers to the scene of the delivery, where customers can theoretically watch the delivery in real time. It isn’t practical or likely, but that’s the idea. Mobile is what justifies these attempts.
Walmart’s efforts, focused entirely on shoppers letting the retailer unlock a home’s front door and put away the groceries in the shopper’s kitchen and refrigerator/freezer, is an idea that begs for a privacy/security disaster to happen. A prudent executive looks at any cutting-edge plan and asks, “What could go wrong with this and how bad is it for our customers if it does?”
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A platinum award from our customers
Credit to Author: Alexander Moiseev| Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 09:28:59 +0000
We received the Platinum Award as part of the 2017 Gartner Peer Insights Customer Choice Awards for Endpoint Protection Platforms
Read MoreIndustrial cybersecurity: Safeguarding technological progress
Credit to Author: Matvey Voytov| Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 07:42:31 +0000
As our latest ICS conference showed, the industrial cybersecurity market has reached maturity.
Read MoreWPA2 Has Been Broken. What Now?
Credit to Author: Bill McGee| Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 13:50:59 +0000
On Monday morning it was announced that WPA2, WiFi’s most popular encryption standard, had been cracked. A new attack method called KRACK (for Key Reinstallation AttaCK) is now able to break WPA2 encryption, allowing a hacker to read information passing between a device and its wireless access point using a variation of a common – and usually highly detectable – man-in-the-middle attack. If successful, this vulnerability can potentially allow a hacker to spy on your data as well as gain access to unsecured devices sharing the…
Read MoreSmall Business: A Target for Cyber Criminals
Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 21:55:53 +0000
No matter how small your business is, it still serves as a lucrative target for cyber criminals.
Microsoft shuts down Krack with sneaky Windows update
Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 13:44:00 -0700
Microsoft today revealed that it quietly patched Windows last week against vulnerabilities in the Wi-Fi Protected Access II (WPA2) protocol used to secure wireless networks.
Details of the security update were only published Monday to Microsoft’s Security Update Guide, the catalog-like portal that earlier this year replaced the decades-old practice of delivering explanatory bulletins.
All supported versions of Windows received the update, according to the catalog listing, including Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2016.
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SSD Advisory – Ikraus Anti Virus Remote Code Execution
Credit to Author: SSD / Maor Schwartz| Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 09:21:04 +0000
Vulnerability summary The following advisory describes an remote code execution found in Ikraus Anti Virus version 2.16.7. KARUS anti.virus “secures your personal data and PC from all kinds of malware. Additionally, the Anti-SPAM module protects you from SPAM and malware from e-mails. Prevent intrusion and protect yourself against cyber-criminals by choosing IKARUS anti.virus, powered by … Continue reading SSD Advisory – Ikraus Anti Virus Remote Code Execution
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