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SophosLabs malware forecast points to rising IoT threats, more ransomware

Credit to Author: Bill Brenner| Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 12:46:34 +0000

SophosLabs has released a malware forecast to coincide with the start of RSA Conference 2017. Typically, our research papers focus on Windows, which has traditionally been the largest battleground. While some of the report does indeed look at Microsoft-specific challenges, we decided to focus more on the increasing malware threats directed at platforms where the […]

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SecurityTrendMicro

The Server Compute Evolution Continues…as does Trend Micro’s Market Leadership in Server Security

Credit to Author: Steve Neville| Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 13:00:42 +0000

IDC, a leading global market intelligence firm, believes that organizations need to have access to security that moves at the speed of business. In fact, one of IDC’s leading security practice analysts had this to say about securing workloads across the hybrid cloud: “Multiple techniques are essential to defend against the sophistication of today’s threats….

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FortinetSecurity

Byline: Solving IoT Security – Pursuing Distributed Security Enforcement

Credit to Author: Ken McAlpine| Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2017 09:49:47 -0800

For many of us in the Security Industry, the possibility of using Internet of Things (IoT) devices as a launchpad for an attack has been mostly theoretical. However, information obtained after the massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against the services offered by DYN.com appears to show that the threat is real and immediate. The definition of IoT is often a little vague. Generally speaking, I consider any device with an IP address associated with it to be some sort of an IoT device, though not all of them are problems. The ones…

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