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Credit to Author: Jean Taggart| Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2018 15:00:00 +0000

Anyone still using a home phone be warned: having landlines makes you particularly vulnerable to scams. Read on to learn how to keep your landline but stay safe from cyberattacks.

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QuickHeal Security

June 6, 2018 admin

Quick Heal detects another banking Trojan imitating popular banking apps in India

Credit to Author: Bajrang Mane| Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2018 13:40:33 +0000

Quick Heal Security Labs has spotted a banking Trojan malware. The malware imitates some popular social, banking and finance apps. While doing so, it gains access to some security permissions on the infected device which allow it to steal the user’s banking credentials. The Trojan is able to do this…

Security Wired

June 5, 2018 admin

WWDC 2018: Apple Just Made Safari the Good Privacy Browser

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2018 21:56:53 +0000

The next version of Safari takes on ad-trackers more aggressively than ever.

MalwareBytes Security

June 5, 2018 admin

Social media: A treasure trove of spam and scams

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2018 17:00:33 +0000

How do spammers know how to target you for scams? They use social media to produce the most convincing types of spam.

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Microsoft Security

June 5, 2018 admin

Virtualization-based security (VBS) memory enclaves: Data protection through isolation

Credit to Author: Windows Defender ATP| Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2018 16:00:15 +0000

The escalating sophistication of cyberattacks is marked by the increased use of kernel-level exploits that attempt to run malware with the highest privileges and evade security solutions and software sandboxes. Kernel exploits famously gave the WannaCry and Petya ransomware remote code execution capability, resulting in widescale global outbreaks. Windows 10 remained resilient to these attacks,

Security TrendMicro

June 5, 2018 admin

Building a Profitable Security Services Offering

Credit to Author: Ryan Delany| Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2018 13:00:59 +0000

Security is the number one concern of business owners today. This isn’t surprising, with all of the hacks, breaches, data thefts, ransomware attacks and privacy violations that we hear about on a daily basis. And those are just the ones we know about – according to the Online Trust Alliance’s (OTA) “Cyber Incident & Breach…

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Kaspersky Security

June 5, 2018 admin

GDPR bustle: Even scammers have new privacy policies

Credit to Author: Tatyana Shcherbakova| Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 07:38:55 +0000

How scammers are exploiting the GDPR fuss to extract personal data.

Security Sophos

June 5, 2018 admin

The results are in: Sophos ranks #1 in exploit protection!

Credit to Author: Editor| Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2018 15:09:34 +0000

Sophos blocked 34 out of 35 exploits tested, while the next highest score was 22 out of 35.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/JLtPYieVpmA” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>