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Credit to Author: Justin Foster| Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 12:00:45 +0000

This year’s Black Hat® conference is right around the corner. Now, amazingly, in its 20th year, Black Hat is one of the world’s top gathering of information security professionals. Friends in the industry refer to this as “Security Summer Camp” and it’s true, between the training, briefings, arsenal, and business hall, Black Hat is chocked…

MalwareBytes Security

July 20, 2017 admin

Terror EK actor experiments with URL shortener fraud

Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 21:25:39 +0000

We catch up with a small player in the exploit kit scene.

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Tags: AdFly Angler EK Astrium EK exploit kits malware mlavertising spam tech support scam Terror EK

Kaspersky Security

July 20, 2017 admin

Explainer: Bitcoin mining

Credit to Author: Alexey Malanov| Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 15:57:01 +0000

Who is mining cryptocurrency such as bitcoins — and where have all the graphics cards gone?

Fortinet Security

July 20, 2017 admin

Byline: It’s Time to Get Serious About Web Application Security

Credit to Author: John Maddison| Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 12:58:00 +0000

As application-focused threats continue to evolve, both in number and sophistication, a single web application security device is typically not enough to defend the entire, distributed network. Instead, organizations need to consider investing in a multi-pronged web application security approach that can tie different devices together, and leverage and share intelligence across a variety of other security and network devices. It’s also increasingly important to have a centralized, unified console, such as a FortiWeb Web Application Firewall.

Security Sophos

July 20, 2017 admin

Invincea receives perfect score from SC Magazine

Credit to Author: geftic| Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 11:24:59 +0000

Invincea gets 5 stars in SC Media’s 2017 Endpoint Security Group Test.<img alt=”” border=”0″ src=”https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=news.sophos.com&blog=834173&post=40703&subd=sophos&ref=&feed=1″ width=”1″ height=”1″ /><img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/aujNpPox_SQ” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

Security Wired

July 19, 2017 admin

Trump’s Election Integrity Committee Made All the Wrong Points

Credit to Author: Issie Lapowsky| Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 21:38:08 +0000

If you want to fix voting, don’t investigate fraud. Improve the outdated, insecure tech.

MalwareBytes Security

July 19, 2017 admin

Adware the series, the final: Tools section

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 15:00:46 +0000

The final episode of our adware series talks specifically about the tools that we use in identifying adware and the places where it lurks on a system.

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Security Wired

July 19, 2017 admin