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Credit to Author: Jenny Chang, Chief Cultural Officer (CCO)| Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 15:23:28 +0000

Trend Micro has been at the cutting edge of technology innovation for almost 30 years. During that time, we’ve always had to have a keen eye on what’s coming next — anticipating threats so we can keep our customers protected, whatever comes their way. But we also recognize that in our race for the modern,…

Kaspersky Security

February 27, 2018 admin

Smart home apocalypse

Credit to Author: Alex Perekalin| Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 11:30:00 +0000

At MWC 2018, Kaspersky Lab researchers show how easily a smart home can be hacked.

QuickHeal Security

February 27, 2018 admin

MIRUS – a cryptomining virus

Credit to Author: Preksha Saxena| Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 09:59:54 +0000

Cryptocurrencies are all the vogue now. This has resulted in the emergence of increasing cryptocurrency mining activities. Several platforms make mining services available to users. One such platform that provides JavaScript cryptocurrency miners for websites is CoinHive. Recently, we have analyzed a virus that infects user files with mining scripts. CoinHive is…

Security Sophos

February 26, 2018 admin

Sophos Mobile 8: secure your devices and endpoints with ease

Credit to Author: Petter Nordwall| Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 17:39:55 +0000

We’re at Mobile World Congress 2018 and ready to unveil Sophos Mobile 8.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/eU6EKi5e4l4″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

Security Wired

February 26, 2018 admin

Replay Sessions From Mixpanel and Others Have Recorded Passwords

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 17:32:02 +0000

Analytics services are unintentionally collecting a mass of passwords and other sensitive data, new research shows.

MalwareBytes Security

February 26, 2018 admin

A week in security (February 19 – February 25)

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 17:36:02 +0000

A roundup of notable news stories from February 19–25, including drive-by download attacks on Chinese websites, Deepfakes programs being paired with cryptominers, and a review of GDPR guidelines.

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Tags: avzhan ddos deepfakes fraud gdpr impersonation KrebsOnSecurity recap secuity weekly blog roundup

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Microsoft Security

February 26, 2018 admin

Best practices for securely moving workloads to Microsoft Azure

Credit to Author: Jenny Erie| Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 17:00:04 +0000

Azure is Microsofts cloud computing environment. It offers customers three primary service delivery models including infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS). Adopting cloud technologies requires a shared responsibility model for security, with Microsoft responsible for certain controls and the customer others, depending on the service

MalwareBytes Security

February 26, 2018 admin

The state of malicious cryptomining

Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 16:08:03 +0000

From malware coin miners to drive-by mining, we review the state of malicious cryptomining in the past few months by looking at the most notable incidents and our own telemetry stats.

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Cybercrime

Tags: coin miners coin-have Coinbase coinhive crypto-loot cryptocurrency cryptomining drive-by malvertising malware monero

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