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Credit to Author: Jonathan Nguyen-Duy| Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 13:44:49 +0000

Cybercrime is a continually increasing problem due to the digital transformation-driven expansion of the attack surface and the growing sophistication of bad actors.

QuickHeal Security

February 13, 2018 admin

Vulnerabilities found in Broadcom Wi-Fi adapter of Lenovo laptop chipsets

Credit to Author: Shriram Munde| Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 12:07:22 +0000

Vulnerabilities found in Broadcom Wi-Fi adapter of Lenovo laptop chipsets Lenovo recently released an advisory, warning customers about two critical Broadcom vulnerabilities which impact 25 models of its popular ThinkPad lineup. The Broadcom Wi-Fi chipsets used by Lenovo ThinkPad devices are affected by the CVE-2017-11120 & CVE-2017-11121 vulnerabilities. Both these issues…

Security TrendMicro

February 12, 2018 admin

How Hackers Are Leveraging Machine Learning

Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 00:34:40 +0000

Unfortunately, like many advanced and innovative technological processes, machine learning can be leveraged for both beneficial enterprise purposes as well as malicious activity.

Fortinet Security

February 12, 2018 admin

Fortinet named a 2018 Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for Enterprise Network Firewall

Credit to Author: Trish Borrmann| Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 21:59:59 +0000

Fortinet is proud to announce that we have been named a 2018 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Enterprise Network Firewall. The Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice is based on the ranking of vendors by verified end-user professionals, taking into account both the number of end-user reviews and the vendor’s overall user ratings.

Security Wired

February 12, 2018 admin

Cryptojacking Found in Critical Infrastructure Systems Raises Alarms

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 17:09:20 +0000

Once confined to browsers, hijacking computers to mine cryptocurrency has branched out to dangerous places.

Security Wired

February 12, 2018 admin

‘Olympic Destroyer’ Malware Hit Pyeongchang Ahead of Opening Ceremony

Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 16:45:03 +0000

Researchers at Cisco Talos detail a new piece of disruptive, highly infectious malware with a clear target: the Pyeongchang Olympics IT infrastructure.

Security Wired

February 12, 2018 admin

Snapchat’s Snap Map Will Now Be Available On the Web

Credit to Author: Louise Matsakis| Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 12:00:00 +0000

By bringing the Snap Map out of the app and onto the web, Snap hopes to bring Snapchat to the masses like never before.

MalwareBytes Security

February 12, 2018 admin

A week in security (February 5 – February 11)

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 17:00:10 +0000

We bring you an overview of what happened in cybersecurity during the last week, including new developments in drive-by cryptomining, including Mac and Android miners, and yet another abusing the fact that Deepfakes content was banned from most major networks.

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