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How to harden AdwCleaner’s web backend using PHP

Credit to Author: Jérôme Boursier| Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2017 16:00:28 +0000

More and more applications are moving from desktop to the web, where they are particularly exposed to security risks. They are often tied to a database backend, and thus need to be properly secured, even though most of the time they are designed to restrict access to authenticated users only. PHP is used to develop…

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Trend Micro Listed as Best Global Taiwan Brands for 15 Consecutive Years

Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2017 14:00:37 +0000

For 15 consecutive years, Trend Micro has received the Best Global Taiwan Brands and named as second most valuable this year. The award is organized by the Industrial Development Bureau of Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs and Intrabrand, a global consultancy. Through continuous efforts to provide advanced technology and services in cyber security solutions, Trend…

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The Importance of Operational Technology (OT) Systems to Maintain a Secure Standard of Living in Today’s Modern Society

Credit to Author: Ronald Jules Hebert, Jr.| Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2017 13:45:59 +0000

The Operational Technology (OT) networks (such as industrial control and supervisory control and data acquisition systems [ICS/SCADA]) that run today’s modern society are a collection of devices designed to work together as an integrated and homogenous system. If one of these systems fails, it can have a catastrophic domino effect. For example, electricity requires telecommunications to transfer information on wheeling power from the electrical grid.

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Securing Customers’ Physical and Virtual Networks with a SIEM Platform

Credit to Author: Lief Koepsel| Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2017 13:45:59 +0000

To keep up with this threat landscape, your customers’ IT teams require security solutions that can provide real-time visibility into network activity and regulatory compliance, as well as automatically initiate a response to security events, to increase the overall efficiency of IT management teams. In order to effectively manage network security, compliance, and performance, your customers should consider implementing a SIEM (security information and event management) solution that features automation, scalability, and actionable intelligence

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Assisted Driving with Google – Today and Tomorrow

Credit to Author: William “Bill” Malik (CISA VP Infrastructure Strategies)| Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2017 13:00:21 +0000

I have two people I visit often: My college friend lives near Poughkeepsie, NY; my girlfriend is in central New Jersey. Getting to Poughkeepsie is simple – there is one major route from my place in Connecticut, with two variations covering the last few miles. Trips to New Jersey can follow multiple routes, bridging the…

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An emerging trend of DDE based Office malware – an analysis by Quick Heal Security Labs

Credit to Author: Aniruddha Dolas| Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2017 09:27:30 +0000

For the past few years, we have been seeing macro-based attacks through Object Linking Embedding (OLE)/Microsoft Office files. But, presently, attackers are using a different technique to spread malware through Office files – using a new attack vector called ‘Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE)’. DDE is an authorized Microsoft Office feature that provides several methods for transferring data between applications. Once the communication protocol is established, it doesn’t require user interactions…

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