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January 9, 2019 admin

Guide to Developing a National Cybersecurity Strategy—a resource for policymakers to respond to cybersecurity challenges

Credit to Author: Angela McKay| Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 17:00:12 +0000

Multi-stakeholder collaboration helps to build better security policies in the recently released Guide to Developing a National Cybersecurity Strategy.

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Kaspersky Security

January 9, 2019 admin

SiliVaccine: Antivirus from North Korea

Credit to Author: Alex Perekalin| Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 15:40:52 +0000

Experts discovered lots of interesting things in the code of North Korean antivirus SiliVaccine.

ComputerWorld Independent

January 9, 2019 admin

Enterprise iPhones will soon be able to use security dongles

Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 07:25:00 -0800

Enterprise security professionals will be pleased to learn that it will soon be possible to enhance the already considerable device security of Apple’s iPhones with hardware-based physical authentication dongles using the Lightning port.

A highly secure proposition

Announced at CES 2019, the key fits on a keyring and comes from the authorization experts at Yubico. The hardware connects to iOS systems using the Lightning connection and is also equipped with USB-C for Macs. This is quite a big deal.

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Independent Krebs

January 9, 2019 admin

Patch Tuesday, January 2019 Edition

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 14:46:31 +0000

Microsoft on Tuesday released updates to fix roughly four dozen security issues with its Windows operating systems and related software. All things considered, this first Patch Tuesday of 2019 is fairly mild, bereft as it is of any new Adobe Flash updates or zero-day exploits. But there are a few spicy bits to keep in mind. Read on for the gory details.

ComputerWorld Independent

January 9, 2019 admin

Details, details

Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 03:00:00 -0800

It’s a few years after Y2K when the IT security team at this university gets a rude awakening, reports a pilot fish in the know.

“They discovered that persons unknown had hacked into a university server,” fish says. “It was being used to launch denial-of-service attacks against a victim somewhere outside the university.”

The team’s first job is finding the server — which turns out to be in the alumni office — and taking it offline.

Then they start digging into the security logs. That’s when they find out that the attackers have been making use of the server for more than a year.

And once they start checking on the IP addresses of whoever it is that has accessed the server, they discover it’s not just one or two hackers. It seems people from all over the world have been using this server to launch attacks.

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ComputerWorld Independent

January 9, 2019 admin

Mingis on Tech: As blockchain hype cools, a 'trough of disillusionment' for 2019?

Credit to Author: Ken Mingis| Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 03:00:00 -0800

Ok, so maybe blockchain isn’t ready yet to become the biggest new technology since the internet.

But the distributed ledger technology clearly made strides in 2018, when it was embraced by companies from Walmart to shipping bigwig Maersk to top tech venders like IBM, SAP, Oracle and Microsoft who see potential in blockchain-as-a-service. (Walmart’s vice president in charge of food safety, Frank Yiannas, compared his embrace of blockchain to a “religious conversaion.”)

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QuickHeal Security

January 9, 2019 admin

Ransomware displaced by cryptojacking as the most trending cyberthreat but it is not dead yet

Credit to Author: Sushmita Kalashikar| Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 10:23:23 +0000

For those of you who have experienced the worst of Ransomware attacks in the form of WannaCry and Petya and believe that the worst is over; you never know what may await you on the other side of this New Year. While the recent threat analysis reports by Quick Heal…

MalwareBytes Security

January 8, 2019 admin

Ryuk ransomware attacks businesses over the holidays

Credit to Author: Adam Kujawa| Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2019 19:49:45 +0000

Over the holiday, a little-known ransomware family called Ryuk caused serious damage to numerous organizations. The attacks leave a lot of questions unanswered. What do we know so far?

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