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Credit to Author: Issie Lapowsky| Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 13:00:00 +0000
Vacant buildings are more than just an economic threat. They’re also a public safety concern. And it turns out they have their own sort of gravitational pull.
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Credit to Author: Doug Bock Clark| Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 11:00:00 +0000
Megan Squire doesn’t consider herself to be antifa and pushes digital activism instead, passing along information to those who might put it to real-world use—who might weaponize it.
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Credit to Author: John Maddison| Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 17:59:59 +0000
ShipServ, in a recent move to a more cloud-based IT infrastructure, adopted several Fortinet products to protect the company’s networks. I recently talked to Dominic Aslan, ShipServ’s vice president of IT operations, about the company’s move to the cloud and its use of Fortinet tools.
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Credit to Author: David Finger| Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 13:45:59 +0000
The challenge is that most all email security vendors say the same thing: “99.9% catch rate, no false positives, easy to manage” and so forth, which is why Fortinet is firmly committed to regular participation in independent testing. Consider, for example, the Advanced Threat Defense certification testing conducted by ICSA Labs.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Anna Markovskaya| Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 14:22:28 +0000
The Skygofree Trojan comes with a powerful array of spyware features, some unique — like turning on audio recording by geolocation and stealing private messages.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Rajib Singha| Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 13:44:52 +0000
Ever came across an online survey that promised you a handsome prize? I did. And here’s what happened. While I was going about my daily work on the Internet, I came across the below page. As you can see, I received a congratulatory message for being a loyal Google…
Read MoreCredit to Author: Pradeep Kulkarni| Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 05:09:15 +0000
Earlier we had blogged about how JAVA based jRAT malware were evolved in the recent times. At Quick Heal Security Labs, we are actively observing jRAT campaigns happening in the wild. These JAVA malware spread through phishing campaigns. While analyzing one such phishing campaign, we found that an International embassy in India was being targeted by phishers. The malware used in the phishing campaign was the infamous JAVA malware called jRAT. …
Read MoreCredit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 19:24:48 +0000
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| A compilation of notable security news and blog posts from January 8 to January 14, including Meltdown and Spectre fallout, apps with naughty ads, and cybercrime surrounding the Winter Olympics. Categories: Tags: Google Playmeltdown and spectrewinter olympicsWPA3 |
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