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Credit to Author: Tony Tulathimutte| Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 10:00:51 +0000
They are young but not selfish. Brilliant but not dorky. Engaged but not political. The current class of college-age hackers will shape our future. The post Meet the Brilliant Young Hackers Who’ll Soon Shape the World appeared first on WIRED.
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Credit to Author: Dario Durando & David Maciejak| Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 12:08:43 -0700
For us at FortiGuard, it always sounds like a bad idea for people to share malware source code, even if it is for academic or educational purposes. For example, on GitHub we can currently find more than 300 distinct repositories of ransomware, which gives you some idea about the attention that this form of malware receives. Although ransomware has the highest profile in the threat landscape at the moment, that does not mean that other threats have disappeared. Android is the most wide spread OS on mobile devices, covering around 80% of the…
Read MoreCredit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 19:45:58 +0000
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| The HoeflerText campaign is known for a fake font download that delivers the Spora ransomware. But did you know it also uses special characters in the dropper’s file name? Categories: Tags: chromeeitestfonthoeflertextmalwareransomwareSpora Ransomware |
The post A story of fonts by the EITest HoeflerText campaign appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Ed Cabrera (Chief Cybersecurity Officer)| Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 18:51:15 +0000
At Trend Micro we have a long history of partnering with law enforcement whenever called upon. We believe that the skills and resources of the private sector can offer allow law enforcement to surge and scale on any particular threat. Combatting the threat posed by transnational cyber criminal groups is ultimately a shared responsibility and…
Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 17:34:51 +0000
Machine learning could provide valuable cyber security protections against ransomware.
Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 15:00:50 +0000
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| In this series, we will be using the below flowchart to follow the process of determining which adware we are dealing with. The idea is to give you an idea of how many different types of adware are around for Windows systems. Categories: Tags: ad fraudadwarecacheextensionspotentially unwanted programsPUP |
The post Adware the series, part 1 appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Susan Biddle| Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 07:48:48 -0700
A number of Fortinet employees recently joined with thousands of attendees at the 2017 HIMSS conference in Orlando, Florida. These individuals were on hand to discuss the latest healthcare innovations, and to share information about Fortinet’s products and services with HIMSS17 attendees. We had a chance to sit down with several Fortinet Health IT and Security experts to hear what they had to say about the current healthcare security landscape and the products that Fortinet offers to combat evolving threats. Watch the videos (below)…
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Credit to Author: Bill Brenner| Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 17:29:38 +0000
Adversarial relationships between vendors and security researchers used to be common. Researchers would report a bug and the vendor – not all but certainly more than a few – would drag its feet in patching the problem. Then, the researcher would make the findings public and the vendor would criticize them for releasing information attackers could […]<img alt=”” border=”0″ src=”https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=news.sophos.com&blog=834173&post=33460&subd=sophos&ref=&feed=1″ width=”1″ height=”1″ /><img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/mNdfmUH8YgY” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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