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Credit to Author: Ed Cabrera (Chief Cybersecurity Officer)| Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2018 14:00:51 +0000

Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) is getting harder every day. According to the World Economic Forum‘s 2018 Global Risks Perception Survey, cyber attacks and data theft are 3 and 4 respectively of the top 5 likely risks organizations will face this year. This is not surprising, in 2017 CISOs the world over faced crippling ransomware attacks,…

MalwareBytes Security

March 8, 2018 admin

The state of Mac malware

Credit to Author: Thomas Reed| Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:01:00 +0000

Mac users are often told that there are no Mac viruses. In reality, Mac malware does exist, as we’ll see in this summary of 2018 Mac threats.

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QuickHeal Security

March 8, 2018 admin

Do not fall for the WhatsApp message about Jio Prime Offer. It’s a hoax!

Credit to Author: Rajib Singha| Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2018 10:49:02 +0000

A message about a Jio Prime offer is circulating among WhatsApp users. Do not fall for it because it’s a hoax. Last evening, I received this message from one of my contacts. Looks like a genuine message, doesn’t it? But, it is nothing but a hoax. How do we know?…

Microsoft Security

March 7, 2018 admin

Behavior monitoring combined with machine learning spoils a massive Dofoil coin mining campaign

Credit to Author: Windows Defender Research| Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2018 21:58:45 +0000

Just before noon on March 6 (PST), Windows Defender AV blocked more than 80,000 instances of several sophisticated trojans that exhibited advanced cross-process injection techniques, persistence mechanisms, and evasion methods. Behavior-based signals coupled with cloud-powered machine learning models uncovered this new wave of infection attempts. The trojans, which are new variants of Dofoil (also known

Security Wired

March 7, 2018 admin

How Leaked NSA Spy Tool ‘EternalBlue’ Became a Hacker Favorite

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2018 13:00:00 +0000

EternalBlue leaked to the public nearly a year ago. It’s wreaked havoc ever since.

Security Wired

March 7, 2018 admin

Leaked NSA Tool ‘Territorial Dispute’ Reveals the Agency’s List of Enemy Hackers

Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2018 12:00:00 +0000

A leaked NSA tool offers a glimpse into what the NSA knows about the hacking operations of adversaries—some of which may still be secretly ongoing.

MalwareBytes Security

March 7, 2018 admin

Building an incident response program: creating the framework

Credit to Author: Paul Kincaid| Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2018 17:00:32 +0000

An incident response plan does not need to be overly complicated. However, having a solid and tested framework for the program is key in the ability of an organization to respond to and survive a security incident.

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Tags: gdpr General Data Protection Regulation Incident Response incident response framework incident response program

Microsoft Security

March 7, 2018 admin

How Office 365 protects your organization from modern phishing campaigns

Credit to Author: Microsoft Secure Blog Staff| Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2018 17:00:46 +0000

This post is authored by Debraj Ghosh, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Microsoft 365 Security. We often allude to the benefits of having an integrated threat protection stack in Office 365. Today we wanted to take the opportunity to walk you through how the combined features and services in the Office 365 threat management stack help