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Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2018 14:00:57 +0000
Along with the upgrade of Mac OS X, its name has also changed to High Sierra. Due to Apple’s restrictions, some older Macs cannot be upgraded to the latest macOS High Sierra. You may want to install a completely new macOS. This article explains how to clean install the macOS High Sierra. First we need…
Credit to Author: Anna Markovskaya| Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2018 14:00:00 +0000
Harmless toy or a way to phish for personal data?
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Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2018 03:24:00 -0800
Amid the growing use of mobile devices for work by federal employees, U.S. defense and intelligence agencies are fast adopting biometrics and other alternative ways of computers, smartphones and tablets, according to a new report.
More than 90% of federal agency IT officials in an online survey said their organizations provide secure mobile access for work-issued devices, but less than 20% support workers’ personal devices to access most agency systems. Forty percent of those same officials voiced concern about securing personal devices, according to the online survey of federal government IT and cybersecurity officials.
Credit to Author: Bajrang Mane| Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2018 11:49:53 +0000
Cases of the “Lime ransomware” have been recently reported to Quick Heal Security Labs. Our research team has analyzed these cases deeply and found some useful information. This post shares this information to help users stay safe from ransomware attacks. ‘Lime’ is a newly discovered .net ransomware; it is also…
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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2018 11:57:00 -0800
Granted, February’s patches from Microsoft weren’t as malevolent as January’s patches, but they still managed to knock out lots and lots of PCs. That said, if you can tiptoe around the problems, now is a good time to get the latest versions of the latest patches installed.
The worst problem I see at this point involves clobbered USB connections on Win10 Fall Creators Update (version 1709) machines after installing the latest cumulative update, KB 4074588. To its credit, Microsoft has acknowledged the problem. But the only offered fix, a complex manual workaround, would drive a hardened MS-DOS junkie to drink.
Credit to Author: Jenny Erie| Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2018 19:00:28 +0000
Todays report, Critical Infrastructure Protection in Latin America and the Caribbean 2018, developed in partnership between Microsoft and the Organization of American States (OAS), demonstrates the value of regional cooperation in global efforts to increase the security of the online environment where it matters most. It acknowledges that rather than focusing on all politics is
Read MoreCredit to Author: Nathan Collier| Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2018 18:00:00 +0000
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| An app claiming to live stream the 2018 Winter Olympics had a short run on Google Play before being flagged for adware. Categories: Tags: adwareAndroidmobile adsolympicstriple m |
The post Mobile Menace Monday: Olympics app has more ads than games appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2018 17:00:00 +0000
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| Last week in infosec, cryptomining kept chugging along, exploits were spotted in the wild, and a massive DDoS attack targeted GitHub. Categories: Tags: filelessgerman governmentmalicious cryptominingtorrentweekly blog roundup |
The post Week in security (February 26 – March 4) appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
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