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Credit to Author: Marcin Kleczynski| Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 15:00:07 +0000

Today, I am happy to announce Malwarebytes Endpoint Protection, its equivalent for businesses. Malwarebytes Endpoint Protection is an advanced threat prevention solution for Windows endpoints featuring a cloud-based management console, delivered through a unified endpoint agent.

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Fortinet Security

June 15, 2017 admin

Higher Education: Critical Infrastructure and the Dark Cloud of Cyber Threats

Credit to Author: Susan Biddle| Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 13:29:00 +0000

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has identified 16 sectors that have been determined to be designated as critical infrastructure due to the debilitating effect on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination that would result from any of these sectors being compromised. Included in this list of 16 is the Government Facilities Sector, which covers, “a wide variety of buildings, located in the United States and overseas, that are owned or leased by federal, state, local, and tribal governments.”…

Security Wired

June 15, 2017 admin

Everyone Donald Trump Has Blocked on Twitter: A Running List

Credit to Author: Ashley Feinberg| Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 19:38:42 +0000

As President Trump continues to tune out his constituents, we’ll keep a running tally of who he blocks—and why.

Security Wired

June 15, 2017 admin

Robert Mueller Chooses His Investigatory Dream Team

Credit to Author: Garrett M. Graff| Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 12:05:15 +0000

They include top FBI agents, prosecutors, and people just as tenacious as Mueller himself.

Security Wired

June 15, 2017 admin

The Pentagon’s Strategic Capabilities Office Looks to Video Games For the Future of War

Credit to Author: Nicholas Thompson| Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 11:00:00 +0000

The DoD’s Strategic Capabilities Office wants to tap into the videogame industry for real-world innovations.

Security Wired

June 14, 2017 admin

Incarceration Is Skyrocketing in Rural America

Credit to Author: Issie Lapowsky| Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 04:01:00 +0000

Even as the president promises a crime crackdown, a deep data dive finds jail populations are soaring fastest in areas that backed him heavily.

Security Wired

June 14, 2017 admin

Crash Override Malware Took Down Ukraine’s Power Grid Last December

Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 12:00:00 +0000

In Ukraine, researchers have found the first real-world malware that attacks physical infrastructure since Stuxnet.

Fortinet Security

June 14, 2017 admin

WINS Server Remote Memory Corruption Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Server

Credit to Author: Honggang Ren| Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 16:19:29 +0000

Summary In December 2016, FortiGuard Labs discovered and reported a WINS Server remote memory corruption vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Server. In June of 2017, Microsoft replied to FortiGuard Labs, saying, "a fix would require a complete overhaul of the code to be considered comprehensive. The functionality provided by WINS was replaced by DNS and Microsoft has advised customers to migrate away from it." That is, Microsoft will not be patching this vulnerability due to the amount of work that would be required. Instead, Microsoft…