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Credit to Author: Greg Johnson| Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2018 20:35:42 +0000
In 2008 I was the product marketing manager for a mining-industry MES package called Ampla (still going strong today). In those days, we would focus on the relationship between people,… Read more »
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 12:00:00 +0000
German researchers say that a flaw in WhatsApp’s group-chat feature undermines its end-to-end encryption promises.
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Credit to Author: Louise Matsakis| Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 01:10:10 +0000
A new report from Human Rights Watch sheds light on a troubling law enforcement practice called “parallel construction.”
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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 09:22:00 -0800
Welcome to another banner Patch Tuesday. Microsoft yesterday released 56 separately identified security patches for every supported version of Windows, Office, .Net, Internet Explorer and Edge. Out of that monstrous pile, only one patch cures a currently exploited problem — a flaw in Word’s Equation Editor that should have been fixed in November.
If you’re a “normal” user, your first priority shouldn’t be Microsoft’s patches, notwithstanding the fabulous PR job performed on Meltdown and Spectre’s behalf. Assuming you don’t open random Word docs with dicey embedded equations, your main concern right now should be getting your antivirus house in order.
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 16:07:35 +0000
Microsoft on Tuesday released 14 security updates, including fixes for the Spectre and Meltdown flaws detailed last week, as well as a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Office that is being exploited in the wild. Separately, Adobe pushed a security update to its Flash Player software.
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Credit to Author: Carl Cayton| Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 13:45:59 +0000
While organizations are adopting new technologies and services, cybercriminals are developing sophisticated methods of attack to target new attack vectors, exploit unforeseen vulnerabilities, and gain access to user data and other network resources. With this increased threat landscape and growing sophistication of cyberattacks, visibility into existing security measures, and identifying those places where there may be gaps is especially important.
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Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 05:03:00 -0800
Microsoft last week took the unprecedented step of requiring customers to have up-to-date antivirus software on their personal computers before it would hand over a critical security update.
“This was unique,” said Chris Goettl, product manager with client security and management vendor Ivanti. “But there was a danger here.”
Goettl was talking about the emergency updates Microsoft issued last week to bolster Windows’ defenses against potential attacks leveraging the vulnerabilities labeled Meltdown and Spectre by researchers. Operating system and browser makers have shipped updates designed to harden systems against the vulnerabilities, which stemmed from design flaws in modern processors from companies such as Intel, AMD and ARM.
Credit to Author: Rajib Singha| Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 13:37:12 +0000
If our readers can recollect, Quick Heal Security Labs had released an important advisory about an Android banking Trojan that is known to target about 232 banking apps. As a continuation of the post, here we will help you understand how you can protect yourself from this malware by following…
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