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TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of April 17, 2017

Credit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 18:23:45 +0000

I’ve never been one to adopt the latest fashion trends, aside from what I wore growing up in the 1980s. I wore shoulder pads, blue eyeliner, designer jeans, and even parachute pants. While I continue to rock my 80s hair to this day, other trends I thought were long gone are making a comeback. (Shoulder…

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FortinetSecurity

Protecting Higher Education Data in Today’s Digital World

Credit to Author: Susan Biddle| Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 08:10:25 -0700

The proliferation of global network connectivity thanks to technological advances and a growing number of connected devices has had a number of positive impacts on today’s higher education institutions. From cloud services to the Internet of Things (IoT), students and faculty are now able to stay connected while outside the classroom or laboratories to improve learning and research. However, all of this private information sharing has also opened the doors to increased cybercriminal activity targeting higher ed. Any exchanged information,…

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QuickHealSecurity

DNS Hijacking – a trend carried by Adware

Credit to Author: Threat Research Labs| Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 14:56:19 +0000

Adware have always known to be the most annoying group of malware since the beginning. Disrupting user’s browsing experience by showing countless advertising banners and redirecting them to websites without their consent. If that isn’t troublesome enough, getting rid of them is another big challenge in several cases. Gone are…

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QuickHealSecurity

Cosmos Bank website compromised with RIG Exploit Kit which drops Cerber Ransomware

Credit to Author: Pradeep Kulkarni| Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 13:22:25 +0000

Update: The incident has been taken care of by Cosmos Bank and its website (URL) is now clean and safe to use. Compromising popular websites has become a common strategy for attackers to spread infection in a widespread fashion. Attackers exploit unpatched vulnerabilities present on web servers in order to compromise…

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SecuritySophos

Protecting the treasure trove

Credit to Author: gailferreirasophos| Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 09:27:20 +0000

Ransomware has been on the computer security radar for some time now but are you aware that it’s increasingly targeting servers? Servers are the treasure trove of an organization’s data and the applications that access it. As senior vice president and general manager of Sophos’ Enduser and Network Security Groups Dan Schiappa explains, “Servers are [&#8230;]<img alt=”” border=”0″ src=”https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=news.sophos.com&#038;blog=834173&#038;post=33352&#038;subd=sophos&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1″ width=”1″ height=”1″ /><img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/tW15Xcj4ApE” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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