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Protecting Higher Education Data in Today’s Digital World

Credit to Author: Susan Biddle| Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 08:10:25 -0700

The proliferation of global network connectivity thanks to technological advances and a growing number of connected devices has had a number of positive impacts on today’s higher education institutions. From cloud services to the Internet of Things (IoT), students and faculty are now able to stay connected while outside the classroom or laboratories to improve learning and research. However, all of this private information sharing has also opened the doors to increased cybercriminal activity targeting higher ed. Any exchanged information,…

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DNS Hijacking – a trend carried by Adware

Credit to Author: Threat Research Labs| Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 14:56:19 +0000

Adware have always known to be the most annoying group of malware since the beginning. Disrupting user’s browsing experience by showing countless advertising banners and redirecting them to websites without their consent. If that isn’t troublesome enough, getting rid of them is another big challenge in several cases. Gone are…

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Cosmos Bank website compromised with RIG Exploit Kit which drops Cerber Ransomware

Credit to Author: Pradeep Kulkarni| Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 13:22:25 +0000

Update: The incident has been taken care of by Cosmos Bank and its website (URL) is now clean and safe to use. Compromising popular websites has become a common strategy for attackers to spread infection in a widespread fashion. Attackers exploit unpatched vulnerabilities present on web servers in order to compromise…

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Protecting the treasure trove

Credit to Author: gailferreirasophos| Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 09:27:20 +0000

Ransomware has been on the computer security radar for some time now but are you aware that it’s increasingly targeting servers? Servers are the treasure trove of an organization’s data and the applications that access it. As senior vice president and general manager of Sophos’ Enduser and Network Security Groups Dan Schiappa explains, “Servers are [&#8230;]<img alt=”” border=”0″ src=”https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=news.sophos.com&#038;blog=834173&#038;post=33352&#038;subd=sophos&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1″ width=”1″ height=”1″ /><img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/tW15Xcj4ApE” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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ComputerWorldIndependent
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Hackers use old Stuxnet-related bug to carry out attacks

Credit to Author: Michael Kan| Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 13:57:00 -0700

Users that run unpatched software beware. Hackers have been relying on an old software bug tied to the Stuxnet worm to carry out their attacks.

Microsoft may have initially patched the flaw in 2010, but it’s nevertheless become the most widespread software exploit, according to security firm Kaspersky Lab.

On Thursday, Kaspersky posted research examining the use of exploits, or malicious programs designed to take advantage of certain software flaws. Once an exploit goes to work, it can typically pave the way for other malicious programs to install onto a computer.

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Developer lifts Windows 7's update blockade with unsanctioned patch

Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 13:28:00 -0700

An anonymous developer has published a patch that negates Microsoft’s barring of security updates from Windows 7 and 8.1 PCs equipped with the very newest processors.

The developer, identified as “Zeffy,” posted the patch and accompanying documentation on GitHub, the code repository.

“I was inspired to look into these new rollup updates that Microsoft released on March 16 [after reading about the processor-related blocking of Windows Update],” wrote Zeffy. “[That was] essentially a giant middle finger to anyone who dare not ‘upgrade’ to the steaming pile of garbage known as Windows 10.”

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