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Credit to Author: Sowjanya O'Neill| Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 13:45:59 +0000
Learn the critical cybersecurity challenges plaguing K-12 schools today and how to mitigate them with this five-point cybersecurity checklist.
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Credit to Author: Jörg Schindler| Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 08:21:05 +0000
Die Entwicklungen von Firewalls steht vor ganz neuen Herausforderungen. Verschiebungen in der Bedrohungslandschaft, ein dramatischer Anstieg in Anzahl und Komplexität von Technologien, mit denen System-Administratoren sich auseinandersetzen müssen, und nicht zu vergessen: eine Flut an Daten. Die modernen Firewalls können zwar heute weitaus mehr, doch auch viele sogenannte Next-Gen-Lösungen haben eine Problem: App-Traffic. Eine kürzlich […]<img alt=”” border=”0″ src=”https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=news.sophos.com&blog=834173&post=45084&subd=sophos&ref=&feed=1″ width=”1″ height=”1″ /><img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/k0903I6KczQ” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Jörg Schindler| Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 15:40:11 +0000
Immer mehr Akteure wollen am Bitcoin-Hype mitverdienen – und ahnungslose Webseitenbesucher sind in diesem Fall die Leidtragenden: Seit September 2017 beobachten wir, dass bei dem Besuch vieler Webseiten die Prozessorlast des eigenen Rechners aus zunächst unerfindlichen Gründen auf 100% hochschnellt. Der Grund dafür ist, dass beim Besuch der Webseite eine in JavaScript geschriebene Anwendung des […]<img alt=”” border=”0″ src=”https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=news.sophos.com&blog=834173&post=44640&subd=sophos&ref=&feed=1″ width=”1″ height=”1″ /><img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/qdKSYPassl4″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
Read MoreCredit to Author: Amar Patil| Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 09:51:57 +0000
2017 was the year of ransomware and cryptocurrency miners but we are still seeing infectors posing a prominent attack vector. Although old, infectors still remain a significant threat to users. In 2017, we observed a few old infector families making new versions of their old code, though no new prominent…
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Credit to Author: Louise Matsakis| Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 23:30:53 +0000
A state-linked hacking group is once again trying to discredit antidoping investigators.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Jérôme Boursier| Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 14:00:00 +0000
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| In the days since Meltdown and Spectre have been made public, we’ve tracked which elements of the design flaw, known as speculative execution, are vulnerable and how different vendors are handling the patching process. Categories: Tags: Google Project ZeroIntelMeltdownprocessorSpectrevulnerabilities |
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Read MoreCredit to Author: William “Bill” Malik (CISA VP Infrastructure Strategies)| Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 14:01:44 +0000
Securing the Internet of Things is difficult. One reason is the Internet of things consists of three different groups of technology. Each group has radically different architectural constraints. Securing each group requires a distinct approach. IoT 0.9 The primitive group contains all legacy Operational Technology (OT) and Industrial Control Systems (ICS) that use some form…
Credit to Author: Nirav Shah| Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 13:45:59 +0000
As network leaders assess their SD-WAN options, however, what is often missing from their deliberations is how to adequately address security risks. SD-WAN vendors are increasingly embedding security features into their offerings, but these tend to be basic, Layer 3 network controls and not the robust security functions that these environments require.
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