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Credit to Author: Jean Taggart| Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 15:00:00 +0000

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Kaspersky Security

October 16, 2018 admin

SMS-based two-factor authentication is not safe — consider these alternative 2FA methods instead

Credit to Author: Alex Drozhzhin| Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 13:50:18 +0000

Why SMS isn’t the best choice for two-factor authentication, and what alternative types of 2FA you should consider.

ComputerWorld Independent

October 16, 2018 admin

Big browsers to pull support plug for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 encryption protocols in early '20

Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 04:06:00 -0700

The makers of the four biggest browsers all said Monday that their applications will drop support for the TLS (Transport Layer Security) 1.0 and 1.1 encryption protocols in early 2020.

“In March of 2020, Firefox will disable support for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1,” wrote Martin Thomson, principal engineer at Mozilla, in a post to a company blog.

Other browser developers, including Apple (Safari), Google (Chrome) and Microsoft (Edge and Internet Explorer) issued similar notices. All pegged early 2020 as the target for disabling support.

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QuickHeal Security

October 16, 2018 admin

Deep analysis of AZORult – The information exfiltrator

Credit to Author: Preksha Saxena| Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 10:35:50 +0000

While the current focus in the cyberspace is on Ransomware and Cryptominers there are other prevalent threat actors silently making their way into victim’s machine in order to comprise it for malicious purpose. During the daily threat hunting task,Quick Heal Security labs came across a blocked URL by Quick Heal’s…

ComputerWorld Independent

October 16, 2018 admin

Stats make iOS a hard OS to ignore

Credit to Author: Evan Schuman| Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 03:00:00 -0700

The latest version of Apple’s mobile operating system — iOS 12 — was released just a few weeks ago, and yet it’s already installed on 53% of relatively newer iPhones (introduced since September 2014) and 50% of all iPhones. Bottom line: It’s the fastest acceptance of any Apple OS.

This is more than a minimally interesting statistic. It illustrates the key difference between Apple mobile devices and Android mobile devices: Although there are more Android users on the globe, Apple’s users are much more of a community. That means many things from an Apple marketing perspective, but for IT, it means far greater security.

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Security Sophos

October 16, 2018 admin

Vi presentiamo Intercept X con EDR

Credit to Author: Sophos Italia| Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2018 05:15:12 +0000

Benvenuti nel futuro.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/rYR3K_b5-MI” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

Security Sophos

October 16, 2018 admin

Già scoperto il modo di aggirare il lock screen dell’iOS 12

Credit to Author: Sophos Italia| Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2018 05:33:16 +0000

iOS 12 di Apple è appena stato rilasciato e qualcuno ha già trovato il modo di eludere la sicurezza del suo lock screen<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/Xiu86I-5dVU” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

Security Sophos

October 16, 2018 admin

I gestori di password Android sono sensibili alle app di phishing

Credit to Author: Sophos Italia| Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2018 05:14:07 +0000

I ricercatori hanno scoperto che diversi importanti gestori di password di Android possono essere indotti con l’inganno ad inserire credenziali di accesso in false app di phishing.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/UXivpfhqvRU” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>