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Credit to Author: Jon Clay (Global Threat Communications)| Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 14:37:14 +0000

Ransomware has been an evolutionary malware family that continues to shift and change over the years. From the first fakeAV, to police ransomware, to the now oft-used crypto-ransomware, this threat just will not go away. Based on the latest trends, we predict this threat will grow in the second half of this year. At Trend…

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Security Sophos

July 9, 2019 admin

CVE-2019-0888: Use-After-Free in Windows ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)

Credit to Author: SophosLabs Offensive Security| Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 14:00:58 +0000

Details of the vulnerability we reported to Microsoft and was fixed in last month’s Patch Tuesday<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/-BE2g_tELic” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

Security TrendMicro

July 8, 2019 admin

Trend Micro Named Best Company To Work For In Taiwan

Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2019 16:34:08 +0000

Trend Micro prides itself on caring first about people – both in our external mission and internally with our employees. As this issue is close to the hearts of our executives, we are always very proud to be recognized by related awards. The HR Asia Awards Taiwan recently named Trend Micro as one of their…

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MalwareBytes Security

July 8, 2019 admin

How to securely send your personal information

Credit to Author: Seth Rosenblatt| Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2019 16:00:00 +0000

On its own, email is not safe for sending credit card or passport numbers. Here’s how to securely send personal information over the Internet.

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Privacy

Tags: data at rest data in transit email encryption end-to-end encryption personal information PII secure messaging signal whatsapp wire

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Microsoft Security

July 8, 2019 admin

Dismantling a fileless campaign: Microsoft Defender ATP next-gen protection exposes Astaroth attack

Credit to Author: Eric Avena| Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2019 16:00:51 +0000

Advanced technologies in Microsoft Defender ATP next-generation protection exposed and defeated a widespread fileless campaign that completely “lived off the land” throughout a complex attack chain that run the info-stealing backdoor Astaroth directly in memory

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MalwareBytes Security

July 8, 2019 admin

A week in security (July 1 – 7)

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2019 15:08:33 +0000

A roundup of cybersecurity news from July 1-7, including stalkerware, Bitcoin generators, app permissions, Chinese spyware, some giant leaks, and a new malware attack method.

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A week in security

Tags: bitcoin bitcoin generators cash generators china Equifax germany godlua ironpython openpgp permissions ryuk smart home stalkerware

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Security Sophos

July 8, 2019 admin

Kampf der Giganten: Apple tritt gegen Anmelde-Services von Facebook und Google an

Credit to Author: Jörg Schindler| Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2019 06:58:43 +0000

Die Apple World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) wartete mit einigen Überraschungen auf. Eine davon war ein neues Feature, das die Anmeldung für Apps und Websites privater gestalten soll: “Sign In with Apple”. Der neue Anmelde-Service soll unerwünschte Nebenwirkungen anderer Lösungen unterbinden. Bisher meldet man sich für Dutzende von Konten auf Websites mit einer Mail-Adresse und […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/Touja9JOGXo” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

Security Sophos

July 8, 2019 admin

Wenn der SQL-Server versucht, mit Ransomware zu erpressen

Credit to Author: Jörg Schindler| Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 09:43:19 +0000

Hacker haben verschiedene Möglichkeiten, in Systeme zu gelangen. Sie können etwa Schwachstellen und Exploits für ausgeklügelte Hackerangriffe verwenden, um vorhandene Sicherheitsüberprüfungen zu umgehen und Server dazu zu bringen, Schadsoftware auszuführen. Sie können aber auch versuchen herauszufinden, wie man ohne viel Aufwand über einen offiziellen Eingang und mit offiziellen Systembefehlen illegal und unbemerkt in fremde Systeme […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/E2_gv6Kanqc” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>