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Credit to Author: Windows Defender ATP team| Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2019 22:10:22 +0000

The keystone to good security hygiene is limiting your attack surface. Attack surface reduction is a technique to remove or constrain exploitable behaviors in your systems. In this blog, we discuss the two attack surface reduction rules introduced in the most recent release of Windows and cover suggested deployment methods and best practices. Software applications

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MalwareBytes Security

February 22, 2019 admin

The Advanced Persistent Threat Files: APT1

Credit to Author: William Tsing| Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2019 17:59:13 +0000

Next up in the Advanced Persistent Threat Files: APT1, a unit of the People’s Liberation Army of China known for wide-scale and high-volume data collection on mostly English-speaking companies.

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Security TrendMicro

February 22, 2019 admin

Trend Micro Internet Security Wins a “Best Protection” Award for 2018 from AV-TEST

Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2019 17:04:21 +0000

February 21, 2019. If the main criterion for judging the value of a security application is how well it protects your computer from web and email threats, malware and viruses, then both users and potential users of Trend Micro Internet Security will be happy to hear that the product has been given a “Best Protection”…

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Security TrendMicro

February 22, 2019 admin

This Week in Security News: Malware and Machine Learning

Credit to Author: Cara West-Wainwright| Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2019 15:00:58 +0000

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about an infectious miner-malware and how malware can hide form AV Solutions. Also, understand how to use machine learning to detect malware outbreaks with limited samples….

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QuickHeal Security

February 22, 2019 admin

Quick Heal Threat Report – Cryptojacking rising but Ransomware still #1 threat for consumers

Credit to Author: Sushmita Kalashikar| Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2019 13:05:25 +0000

In wake of the growing incidences of targeted cyber-attacks on enterprises using Cryptojacking, due to its ease of deployment and instant return on investments; it rather comes as a surprise that malware authors are still counting on Ransomware for targeting consumers and home users. Yes, you heard it right! According…

Microsoft Security

February 21, 2019 admin

Lessons learned from the Microsoft SOC—Part 1: Organization

Credit to Author: Mark Simos, Kristina Laidler and John Dellinger| Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 19:00:17 +0000

In the first of our three part series, we provide tips on how to manage a security operations center (SOC) to be more responsive, effective, and collaborative.

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Security Sophos

February 21, 2019 admin

Abusive mobile adware aggressively touts…more adware

Credit to Author: Jagadeesh Chandraiah| Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 17:00:42 +0000

Mobile adware may not be as immediately harmful (and may not attract as much attention) as mobile malware, but that doesn’t make this nuisance category of software any less disruptive. SophosLabs took another look at a network of adware apps (first referenced in a report from Trend Micro) that managed to evade Google Play Market […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/8azL8-VxFqo” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

Security Wired

February 21, 2019 admin