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Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 05:05:00 -0700

The world of grey IT means both enterprise and consumer users frequently use popular social networking service Facebook on their devices. It makes sense, then, to stay safe while using it.

Manage Facebook Security settings

First things first: Always use a complex passcode with your account and do make sure to set up two-factor authentication.

Now that you’ve done that, you’ll find Facebook’s own privacy settings live inside Privacy Shortcuts in the iOS app. Get to these by tapping the three-line icon at bottom right of the Facebook app and scrolling down to Privacy Shortcuts. The first thing you should do is run Privacy check-up (at the top of the page). Facebook will guide you through your existing settings, change them for maximum privacy, and delete any Facebook apps you’ve forgotten about or no longer use.

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ComputerWorld Independent

March 13, 2018 admin

Just one, um, great idea after another

Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 03:00:00 -0700

Sysadmin pilot fish is approached by the IT director, who tells fish to create an account for the director that has the same capabilities as the lead programmer’s account.

“Seems he had some kind of beef with the lead programmer,” sighs fish. “But I created the account, set the privileges and gave him the user name and password.

“Three months later, he came into my office accusing me of not complying with his directive.

“I told him that I had indeed complied with his instructions, including showing him that the login capability worked as advertised.

“He told me he couldn’t perform a certain operation when he logged in. I explained that neither could the lead programmer. Only system administrators could.

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ComputerWorld Independent

March 13, 2018 admin

Turn Automatic Update off, temporarily, in anticipation of another round of pernicious patches

Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 15:14:00 -0700

Microsoft has given us two messed-up patching months back to back, with January leaving blue screens and pandemonium in its wake, and February hitting the latest version of Windows 10 particularly hard. For those of you with some experience in the patching game, it’s more of the same-old same-old.

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MalwareBytes Security

March 13, 2018 admin

Hancitor: fileless attack with a DLL copy trick

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 16:00:00 +0000

Evading detection when distributing payloads is a key part of an effective malware campaign. Hancitor shows that it has yet another trick up its sleeve for that.

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Microsoft Security

March 13, 2018 admin

Poisoned peer-to-peer app kicked off Dofoil coin miner outbreak

Credit to Author: Windows Defender Research| Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 22:27:06 +0000

On March 7, we reported that a massive Dofoil campaign attempted to install malicious cryptocurrency miners on hundreds of thousands of computers. Windows Defender Antivirus, with its behavior monitoring, machine learning technologies, and layered approach to security detected and blocked the attack within milliseconds.Windows 10 S, a special configuration of Windows 10 providing Microsoft-verified security,

Microsoft Security

March 13, 2018 admin

Invisible resource thieves: The increasing threat of cryptocurrency miners

Credit to Author: Windows Defender ATP| Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 12:57:36 +0000

The surge in Bitcoin prices has driven widescale interest in cryptocurrencies. While the future of digital currencies is uncertain, they are shaking up the cybersecurity landscape as they continue to influence the intent and nature of attacks. Cybercriminals gave cryptocurrencies a bad name when ransomware started instructing victims to pay ransom in the form of

ScadaICS Schneider

March 12, 2018 admin

Attracting Investors: What Colocation Providers Need to Know

Credit to Author: Guest Blogger| Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 15:58:33 +0000

Written By: Steve Wallage Steve Wallage, Managing Director of BroadGroup Consulting, is the featured speaker in the Digital International Colocation Club webcast taking place March 14 at 10:00 am ET. BroadGroup Consulting… Read more »

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ComputerWorld Independent

March 12, 2018 admin

IT beware: University finds new 4G security holes

Credit to Author: Evan Schuman| Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 10:25:00 -0700

IT has enough to worry about with traditional data breach issues, but now researchers from Purdue University and the University of Iowa have found quite a few new security holes in the popular 4G mobile networks.

The potentially worst hole detailed in the study is an authentication synchronization failure attack. The danger? It allows bad guys to read incoming and outgoing messages from an employee, permits “stealthy denial” of selected services and “location of history poisoning,” which simply means it can manipulate location ready to give false information to systems using location for identity authentication.

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