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Credit to Author: Thomas Reed| Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:01:00 +0000
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| 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. Categories: Tags: Applemacmac malwaremacOSosxThomas Reed |
The post The state of Mac malware appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
Read MoreCredit 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?…
Read MoreCredit 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
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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.
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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.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Paul Kincaid| Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2018 17:00:32 +0000
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| 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. Categories: Tags: gdprGeneral Data Protection RegulationIncident Responseincident response frameworkincident response program |
The post Building an incident response program: creating the framework appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
Read MoreCredit 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
Read MoreCredit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2018 15:00:16 +0000
Submitted by Elie Nasrallah
, Director – Cyber Security Strategy
The healthcare industry remains one of the most frequently targeted sectors in the United States. It accounted for nearly a quarter (23%) of all breaches reported in 2017, second only to the business category, in another record year for data theft. That’s why Trend Micro has been a…