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Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 21:17:40 +0000
In today’s ransomware update, we’ll take a look at some of the newest attack styles being used today, as well as the best ways your organization can guard against ransomware.
Credit to Author: Jordan Pearson| Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 21:50:38 +0000
Keep technology stupid.
Read MoreEarlier this month, FortiGuard Labs researchers published findings about a malware campaign exploiting a PowerPoint vulnerability. Cybercriminals, however, are equal opportunity exploiters, so just recently an interesting targeted malware campaign was found to be using another document vulnerability. Only this time, it’s a Hangul Word Processor (HWP) document leveraging the already known CVE-2015-2545 Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) vulnerability.
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Credit to Author: Kate Lunau| Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 18:06:29 +0000
If we put another 310 gigatons of carbon into the ocean by 2100, which we’re well on track to do, we enter “unknown territory.”
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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 10:44:00 -0700
With one month left until Outlook 2007 hits end of life, Microsoft released a fix yesterday for the September security patch’s polyglot ways. You may recall KB 4011086 as the Outlook 2007 patch that displays Swedish menus in the Hungarian language version, Portuguese in Italian, Swedish in Slovenian, Spanish in Italian, and many more. One hitch: You have to manually uninstall the old patch before you can install the new patch.
For those of you using Outlook 2010 who got hit with the same language switcheroo, I haven’t seen any notice that this month’s KB 4011089 has been fixed or pulled.
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Credit to Author: Ernie Smith| Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 17:18:43 +0000
Toys’R’Us, which just filed for bankruptcy, was once essential to the fortunes of the toy industry. But the secret to its rise was that it sold a whole lot of electronics—whether cheap gadgets, hot toys, or (of course) video games.
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Credit to Author: Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai| Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 17:07:50 +0000
And it’s a feature, not a bug.
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Credit to Author: Ankita Rao| Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 17:02:51 +0000
But the Brazilian government is still encouraging miners and loggers in the region.
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