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Credit to Author: Emily Dreyfuss| Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 23:40:47 +0000
Drafting sane tech policy is hard. But that’s no excuse for not doing it, as Comey’s tenure as FBI director proves. The post The US Government Isn’t Just Tech-Illiterate. It’s Tech-Incompetent appeared first on WIRED.
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Credit to Author: Aamir Lakhani| Date: Mon, 15 May 2017 10:12:26 -0700
On May 12th, 2017 the ransomware WannaCry disrupted hundreds of organizations in dozens of countries. The ransomware encrypts personal and critical documents and files and demands approximately $300 USD in BitCoin currency for the victim to unlock their files.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Dustin Childs (Zero Day Initiative Communications)| Date: Mon, 15 May 2017 16:30:02 +0000
At the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), we see patches in a way few do. We get the initial report from a researcher, we verify the issue internally, we notify the vendor, and finally we publish some details once a patch is released. Those patches represent the best method for preventing cyber attacks. Recently, an issue…
Credit to Author: Bill Brenner| Date: Mon, 15 May 2017 15:37:54 +0000
Sophos continues to work at protecting customers from the WannaCry ransomware attack – here’s what you need to know.<img alt=”” border=”0″ src=”https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=news.sophos.com&blog=834173&post=33836&subd=sophos&ref=&feed=1″ width=”1″ height=”1″ /><img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/njvzLvfCFBc” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Matt Hamblen| Date: Mon, 15 May 2017 07:59:00 -0700
The cruel reality of a global ransomware attack that crippled computer systems in 150 countries on Friday is this: Attackers took advantage of under-prepared computer users and their organizations.
Enterprises — including manufacturers, car makers, hospitals and government agencies — were running older versions of Windows or hadn’t patched even the newest Windows versions with a patch that Microsoft released in March.
And, truth be told, some unsuspecting users evidently clicked on email links or, more likely, a suspected compressed Zip file attachment that launched the ransomware known as WannaCry, also known as WannaCrypt or WannaCrypto.
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Credit to Author: Richard Orgias| Date: Mon, 15 May 2017 08:13:46 -0700
Digital Transformation is Happening Now Digital Transformation is a subject on the minds of CEOs everywhere as they seek to improve business results and align more closely with the needs and the expectations of their customers. And why not? Businesses large and small are adopting digital practices that a recent McKinsey study shows delivers, on average, five times more revenue and eight times more profitability than peer companies. The appeal of improved revenues, greater profitability, and higher levels of customer engagement underpins a shift…
Read MoreCredit to Author: Ed Cabrera (Chief Cybersecurity Officer)| Date: Mon, 15 May 2017 13:08:41 +0000
Last week, The White House released its long awaited Executive Order (EO), Strengthening the Cybersecurity of Federal Networks and Critical Infrastructure, ironically enough during the same week we experienced the largest single ransomware attack that, by some estimates, has affected more than 200,000 victims across 150 countries. My intentions were to highlight the EO in…
Credit to Author: Mark Nunnikhoven (Vice President, Cloud Research)| Date: Mon, 15 May 2017 00:46:55 +0000
[Editors note: For the latest WannaCry information as it relates to Trend Micro products, please read this support article.] The WannaCry ransomware variant of 12-May-2017 has been engineered to take advantage of the most common security challenges facing large organizations today. Starting with a basic phish, this variant uses a recent vulnerability (CVE-2017-0144/MS17-010) to spread…