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Credit to Author: Steven Carlini| Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 16:00:00 +0000

It’s been well publicized that Microsoft fends off more than 7 trillion cyberthreats per day, and allocates over $1 billion each year to cybersecurity for its cloud data centers. While… Read more »

The post Ways to Improve Your Data Center Cybersecurity That Most People Don’t Think of Until It’s Too Late appeared first on Schneider Electric Blog.

Security Wired

January 16, 2019 admin

A ‘Fortnite’ Vulnerability Exposed Accounts to Takeover

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 14:00:00 +0000

Epic Games has since patched the attack, which would have allowed attackers to view account info, listen in on in-game conversations, and more.

Security Wired

January 16, 2019 admin

As the Government Shutdown Drags on, Security Risks Intensify

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 12:00:00 +0000

From potential nation state hacks to a brain drain, the shutdown has done nothing good for cybersecurity.

Security Wired

January 16, 2019 admin

Facebook’s ’10 Year Challenge’ Is Just a Harmless Meme—Right?

Credit to Author: Kate O’Neill| Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 23:39:04 +0000

Opinion: The 2009 vs. 2019 profile picture trend may or may not have been a data collection ruse to train its facial recognition algorithm. But we can’t afford to blithely play along.

Security Wired

January 16, 2019 admin

How GPS Tracking Technology Can Curb Domestic Violence

Credit to Author: Gianmarco Raddi| Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 19:49:00 +0000

Opinion: GPS-monitored violent offenders are 95 percent less likely to commit a new crime. We need to implement an integrated, nationwide domestic violence program that tracks domestic abusers.

MalwareBytes Security

January 16, 2019 admin

The Advanced Persistent Threat files: APT10

Credit to Author: William Tsing| Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 17:00:00 +0000

While security companies are getting good at analyzing the tactics of nation-state threat actors, they still struggle with placing these actions in context and making solid risk assessments. So in this series, we’re going to take a look at a few APT groups, and see how they fit into the larger threat landscape—starting with APT10.

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Tags: advanced persistent threat advanced persistent threats aerospace APT APT10 APTs china Chinese Ministry of State Security construction engineering FireEye MSS PlugX Poison Ivy scanbox sogu telecoms threat actors

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Microsoft Security

January 16, 2019 admin

Step 3. Protect your identities: top 10 actions to secure your environment

Credit to Author: Debbie Seres| Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 17:00:18 +0000

The Top 10 actions to secure your environment series outlines fundamental steps you can take with your investment in Microsoft 365 security solutions. In todays installment, Step 3. Protect your identities, youll learn how to define security policies to protect individual user identities against account compromise and protect your administrative accounts.

The post Step 3. Protect your identities: top 10 actions to secure your environment appeared first on Microsoft Secure.

Microsoft Security

January 16, 2019 admin

The evolution of Microsoft Threat Protection, January update

Credit to Author: Debraj Ghosh| Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 17:00:16 +0000

Learn about the top feature updates for Microsoft Threat Protection in January.

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