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Credit to Author: Joseph Pomianowski, Ling Liang Dong| Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2019 13:00:00 +0000
Opinion: There’s little data on the effectiveness of mental health reporting laws, and we’re being distracted from measures we know will save lives.
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The FortiGuard Labs SE team recently identified a new malicious spam campaign utilizing the well documented infostealer LokiBot. Learn more.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/fortinet/blog/threat-research/~4/jsXG7ovxyoY” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2019 16:47:56 +0000
The U.S. Secret Service is investigating a breach at a Virginia-based government technology contractor that saw access to several of its systems put up for sale in the cybercrime underground, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. The contractor claims the access being auctioned off was to old test systems that do not have direct connections to its government partner networks. In mid-August, a member of a popular Russian-language cybercrime forum offered to sell access to the internal network of a U.S. government IT contractor that does business with more than 20 federal agencies, including several branches of the military. The seller bragged that he had access to email correspondence and credentials needed to view databases of the client agencies, and set the opening price at six bitcoins (~USD $60,000).
Read MoreCredit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2019 16:01:30 +0000
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| A roundup of the latest cybersecurity news for the week of September 2 – 8, including TrickBot’s new trick, a social engineering toolkit, and how to keep remote workers safe. Categories: Tags: back to schoolback to school cybersecurityCapital One data breachchinacyber insurancedeepfakedeepfake for voicesfacebookiphone compromisePaige Thompsonransomwareremote workersromance scamscammersSocial Engineeringspear phishingtargeted attackstrickbotUyghur Muslims |
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Read MoreCredit to Author: Todd VanderArk| Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2019 16:00:37 +0000
Powerful automation capabilities help improve the effectiveness and efficiency of investigating and responding to Office 365 alerts.
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Read MoreCredit to Author: William Tsing| Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2019 15:36:11 +0000
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| Before organizations engage in gnashing of teeth over the “ignorant user” and the cost of training, think about how much email users encounter and whether corporate communications look like phishes themselves. Categories: Tags: anti-phishingbecBusiness Email Compromisecorporate communicationsemail communicationsemailsphishingphishing trainingtraining and awareness program |
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Read MoreCredit to Author: Prachi Sudame| Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2019 12:10:30 +0000
Quick Heal Security Labs recently spotted multiple Fake Antivirus Apps on Google Play Store. What’s more alarming, is that one of these fake AV Apps has been downloaded 100000+ times already. These Apps appear to be genuine Anti-virus/virus-removal Apps with names like Virus Cleaner, Antivirus security, etc., but do not…
Read MoreCredit to Author: Nikolay Pankov| Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2019 10:30:50 +0000
Cheats for multiplayer games are tantamount to malware, and their use in competitions to cybercrime.
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