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Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 15:00:00 +0000

Emotet is often mentioned as one of the most annoying, effective, and costly present-day malware infections. We discuss the reasons why and the proper way to remove it.

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Tags: banking Trojan botnet emotet EternalBlue information stealer Ryuk ransomware SMB vulnerabilities trickbot trojan

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March 13, 2019 admin

Google’s Nest fiasco harms user trust and invades their privacy

Credit to Author: davidruiz| Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 16:30:29 +0000

Last month, Google announced that its Nest Secure would be updated to work with Google Assistant software. The problem? Google never told users its product had a microphone to begin with. Simple oversight or invasion of privacy? We break it down.

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Tags: alarm Amazon Alexa assistant data collection Data privacy EFF Electronic Frontier Foundation Electronic Privacy Information Center Epic Federal Trade Commission Google Google Assistant keypad microphone motion sensor Nest Nest Guard Nest Secure privacy Senate Select Committee on Commerce smart assistant Sonos Sonos One transparency transparent trust user trust voice assistant

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March 13, 2019 admin

Explained: Payment Service Directive 2 (PSD2)

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 15:00:00 +0000

PSD2 is coming to the EU. What is it? How will it be used? What are the implications? Many questions and some answers and recommendations.

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Tags: aisp banking cryptocurrency European Union facebook gdpr Google information PSD psd2

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March 12, 2019 admin

The Advanced Persistent Threat files: Lazarus Group

Credit to Author: William Tsing| Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 16:27:02 +0000

Lazarus Group, the threat actors likely behind the Sony breach and WannaCry outbreak, are in the news again. Here’s what you need to know about this North Korean organization, and what you should do to protect against such nation-state attacks.

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Tags: APT Lazarus North Korea

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March 11, 2019 admin

A week in security (March 4 – 11)

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 15:47:27 +0000

A roundup of cybersecurity news from March 4–11, including a Chrome zero-day, Labs’ data privacy report, news from RSA, and more.

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Tags: Apple Baby Boomer Baby Boomers chrome data privacy laws dev-fuse Gen Zed Google Chrome iPhone machine learning Millennial Millennials National Security Agency NSA ransom.troldesh ransomware RSA RSA Conference shade study surveillance survey Tim Apple Tim Cook Troldesh Troldesh ransomware ultrasound ultrasound scanning US data privacy laws Verizon vulnerability week in security zero day zombie email

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March 8, 2019 admin

Google Chrome zero-day: Now is the time to update and restart your browser

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2019 19:13:15 +0000

A particularly dangerous Google Chrome zero-day is already being used in real-world attacks. Despite Google’s auto update feature, users will need to close and restart their browser in order to be protected.

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Tags: 0day chrome exploit exploits Google vulnerability zero day

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March 8, 2019 admin

Zombie email rises from grave after eight years of radio silence

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2019 16:00:00 +0000

What do you do when an email account you assumed was long gone comes back to life after eight years?

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Tags: account email email account ISP ISPs passwords talk talk zombie email

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March 7, 2019 admin

The not-so-definitive guide to cybersecurity and data privacy laws

Credit to Author: davidruiz| Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2019 16:00:00 +0000

In the first blog for Malwarebytes Labs’ cybersecurity and data privacy law series, we tackle US data privacy compliance from a startup’s perspective. GDPR, COPPA, HIPAA—it’s all here.

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Tags: California Online Privacy Protection California Online Privacy Protection Act Childrens Online Privacy Protect Act COPPA cybersecurity cybersecurity compliance cybersecurity laws data breach data breach notification data breach notification law Data privacy data privacy compliance data privacy laws Do Not Track EU European Union gdpr General Data Protection Regulation Google Health Insurance Portability and Accessibility HIPAA legal privacy privacy policy startup