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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 21:30:47 +0000

Trump’s order creates a framework to sanction foreign meddling in elections, but experts say it’s not enough.

September 13, 2018 admin

Partnerstroka: Large tech support scam operation features latest browser locker

Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 15:00:00 +0000

Tech support scammers belonging to the Partnerstroka group are once again abusing browsers, this time with a new browlock feature to reel in more victims, in one of the biggest campaigns we’ve ever tracked.

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Security Sophos

September 13, 2018 admin

The art of unboxing: Sophos APX Series access points

Credit to Author: Barbara Hudson| Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 13:48:35 +0000

A taste of what you can expect from our new APX Series access points.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/q7Jtd0ccR2M” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

Microsoft Security

September 12, 2018 admin

Office VBA + AMSI: Parting the veil on malicious macros

Credit to Author: Microsoft Secure Blog Staff| Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 16:02:43 +0000

As part of our continued efforts to tackle entire classes of threats, Office 365 client applications now integrate with Antimalware Scan Interface (AMSI), enabling antivirus and other security solutions to scan macros and other scripts at runtime to check for malicious behavior. Macro-based threats have always been a prevalent entry point for malware, but we

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MalwareBytes Security

September 12, 2018 admin

The many faces of omnichannel fraud

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 15:00:00 +0000

There’s a new kind of fraud out there, and it’s after organizations that have embraced omnichannel, a strategy that focuses on improved user experience. We take a look at what omnichannel is, the kinds of fraud that can affect businesses using this approach, and how they can protect themselves—and their clients.

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Tags: auth methods card not present fraud card testing fraud click and collect fraud cnp fraud cybersecurity software encryption fraud fraud prevention mfa mobile payment fraud multi-factor authentication omnichannel omnichannel fraud return fraud security SMS fraud track fraud

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Kaspersky Security

September 12, 2018 admin

Making two-factor authentication much stronger in two easy steps

Credit to Author: Sarah Pike| Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 14:18:31 +0000

Speaking of two-factor authentication — as we often do — did you know some convenient settings render it utterly useless? Let’s do it right.

QuickHeal Security

September 12, 2018 admin

CVE-2018-8440 – Task Scheduler ALPC Zero-Day Exploit in the Wild

Credit to Author: Sameer Patil| Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 13:30:14 +0000

The recent zero-day vulnerability CVE-2018-8440 in Windows Task Scheduler enables attackers to perform a privilege elevation on targeted machines. Microsoft has released a security advisory CVE-2018-8440 on September 11, 2018 to address this issue. According to Microsoft, successful exploitation of this vulnerability could run arbitrary code in the security context…