MicrosoftSecurity

Voice of the Customer: The Walsh Group found that Azure Active Directory gives them a competitive edge

Credit to Author: Sue Bohn| Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 17:00:02 +0000

The Voice of the Customer blog series is designed to help you by sharing stories from real customers who are solving their identity and security challenges using Azure AD.

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MalwareBytesSecurity

Flurry of new Mac malware drops in December

Credit to Author: Thomas Reed| Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 16:00:00 +0000

Multiple new pieces of Mac malware have appeared in December, all distributed through different means, but all opening backdoors on infected computers.

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SecurityTrendMicro

2019 Security Predictions Report Released

Credit to Author: Greg Young (Vice President for Cybersecurity)| Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 13:05:01 +0000

What Makes For Really Good Security Predictions Each year Trend Micro releases its annual Security Predictions Report. Good security predictions are very difficult to develop, and companies and consumers need to be selective about the security advice they take. What makes a good security prediction? Four key aspects: 1. It is the prime directive that…

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ComputerWorldIndependent

And that was actually the CLEAN version!

Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 03:00:00 -0800

It’s more than a few years back, and this oilfield services company is implementing a new email filter, says a pilot fish working there.

“It was part of an email security product,” fish says. “The filter could identify emails containing language that was not considered business appropriate.

“We’d had HR incidents involving inappropriate language in the past, especially from field hands emailing to office staff — it gave a new meaning to ‘crude oil workers’ — so it was decided we should enable the feature with its default settings and give it a run.

“Only a few hours later we received an alert that a message had been identified with inappropriate language.

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IndependentKrebs

How Internet Savvy are Your Leaders?

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 20:40:05 +0000

Back in April 2015, I tweeted about receiving a letter via snail mail suggesting the search engine rankings for a domain registered in my name would suffer if I didn’t pay a bill for some kind of dubious-looking service I’d never heard of. But it wasn’t until the past week that it become clear how many organizations — including towns, cities and political campaigns — actually have fallen for this brazen scam.

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