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What is Quick Heal Total Security Multi-Device?

Credit to Author: Rajib Singha| Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 11:14:35 +0000

If you are using a smartphone and a laptop, then it is most likely for at least one of your family members using a similar device or devices. Your parents, for instance, might be using a Windows desktop, your sibling a Mac and your kids an Android smartphone. In short,…

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iCloud security: How (and why) to enable two-factor authentication

Credit to Author: Michael deAgonia| Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 03:11:00 -0700

Given that so many of the details of our digital lives are either with us (on our smartphones) or easily accessible (via the web), you should be doing everything you can to protect that information and data. On iPhones and iPads, data is largely kept in a vault, sealed behind strong encryption and (hopefully) a strong password. Even if the device is lost or stolen, chances are good that encryption will keep data safe. (That vault is secure enough to frustrate even the FBI.)

Although iOS devices are designed and built to be secure, data is also stored and accessible online. With security breaches occurring routinely, your data is vulnerable to anyone in the world with an internet connection and a halfway decent browser. If a breach occurs and thieves gain access to your email and password, they can easily reset any account linked to that email, change the password, and lock you out of your own data.

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Blowing the Whistle on Bad Attribution

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 04:29:51 +0000

The New York Times this week published a fascinating story about a young programmer in Ukraine who’d turned himself in to the local police. The Times says the man did so after one of his software tools was identified by the U.S. government as part of the arsenal used by Russian hackers suspected of hacking into the Democratic National Committee (DNC) last year. It’s a good read, as long as you can ignore that the premise of the piece is completely wrong.

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Locky Launches a More Massive Spam Campaign with New “Lukitus” Variant

Credit to Author: Joie Salvio, Rommel Joven and Floser Bacurio| Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 21:37:00 +0000

It has just been a week since the variation of Locky named Diablo6 appeared. Now it has launched another campaign more massive than the previous. This time, it uses “.lukitus”, which means “locking” in Finnish, as the extension for the encrypted files. The FortiGuard Lion Team was the first to discover this variant with the help of Fortinet’s advanced  Kadena Threat Intelligence System [1](KTIS) Fig. 1 Encrypted files with .lukitus extension Fig. 2 Familiar Locky ransom note Same Locky, More Spam This…

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Schneider Electric: America’s 20 Most Promising Companies To Watch

Credit to Author: Iram Shah| Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 20:37:26 +0000

I am pleased to announce that Schneider Electric has been featured by Insights Success as one of America’s Most Promising Companies to Watch in 2017. At Schneider Electric, we are… Read more »

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