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Credit to Author: Eric Quesnot| Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 13:00:26 +0000

Operating expenses represent the majority of a building’s lifecycle costs, sometimes exceeding 80%. Energy and maintenance are a big part of these costs. Considering that 30% of the energy used… Read more »

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Microsoft Security

September 12, 2018 admin

Office VBA + AMSI: Parting the veil on malicious macros

Credit to Author: Microsoft Secure Blog Staff| Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 16:02:43 +0000

As part of our continued efforts to tackle entire classes of threats, Office 365 client applications now integrate with Antimalware Scan Interface (AMSI), enabling antivirus and other security solutions to scan macros and other scripts at runtime to check for malicious behavior. Macro-based threats have always been a prevalent entry point for malware, but we

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MalwareBytes Security

September 12, 2018 admin

The many faces of omnichannel fraud

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 15:00:00 +0000

There’s a new kind of fraud out there, and it’s after organizations that have embraced omnichannel, a strategy that focuses on improved user experience. We take a look at what omnichannel is, the kinds of fraud that can affect businesses using this approach, and how they can protect themselves—and their clients.

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Kaspersky Security

September 12, 2018 admin

Making two-factor authentication much stronger in two easy steps

Credit to Author: Sarah Pike| Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 14:18:31 +0000

Speaking of two-factor authentication — as we often do — did you know some convenient settings render it utterly useless? Let’s do it right.

QuickHeal Security

September 12, 2018 admin

CVE-2018-8440 – Task Scheduler ALPC Zero-Day Exploit in the Wild

Credit to Author: Sameer Patil| Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 13:30:14 +0000

The recent zero-day vulnerability CVE-2018-8440 in Windows Task Scheduler enables attackers to perform a privilege elevation on targeted machines. Microsoft has released a security advisory CVE-2018-8440 on September 11, 2018 to address this issue. According to Microsoft, successful exploitation of this vulnerability could run arbitrary code in the security context…

Security Sophos

September 12, 2018 admin

Sophos Email: Delivering on security and visibility

Credit to Author: Rich Beckett| Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 10:09:19 +0000

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Independent Krebs

September 11, 2018 admin

Patch Tuesday, September 2018 Edition

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 20:35:27 +0000

Adobe and Microsoft today each released patches to fix serious security holes in their software. Adobe pushed out a new version of its beleaguered Flash Player browser plugin. Redmond issued updates to address at least 61 distinct vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and related programs, including several flaws that were publicly detailed prior to today and one “zero-day” bug in Windows that is already being actively exploited by attackers.