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Credit to Author: Wendy Zamora| Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 14:00:37 +0000
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| Phishing has evolved from the days of the Nigerian prince, taking on many forms and mediums. Learn how to detect today’s sophisticated phishing attempts. Categories: Tags: Nigerian princephishingsmishingsms phishingSocial Engineeringspear phishing |
The post Something’s phishy: How to detect phishing attempts appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
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Credit to Author: Cynthia Hseih| Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 12:50:00 +0000
The emerging trend towards security automation is becoming essential for cloud deployment. Traditionally, businesses configure a Web Application Firewall with static policies to address unchanging, known-bad threats. Unfortunately, it can be tricky to get them all right in Public Cloud environment. With a growing number of attack variants, more rules you add the more potential there is to run into false positives. FortiWeb’s integration with the Azure Security Center now allows customers to take a reactive policy approach to web security…
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Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 09:21:04 +0000
Is ransomware really the worst sort of cyberattack you can experience? Or is it more of a “worst among equals,” given all the other sorts of malware out there too?<img alt=”” border=”0″ src=”https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=news.sophos.com&blog=834173&post=40271&subd=sophos&ref=&feed=1″ width=”1″ height=”1″ /><img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/EYsGO5DwAkE” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Sophos Italia| Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 05:10:12 +0000
Il mouse collegato al computer e la tua mano potrebbero dirci molto più di quanto sospetti sulla tua identità. Ciò potrebbe essere una cosa buona, come recentemente osservato dai ricercatori in Italia, o fastidiosa come quelli della comunità Tor hanno sottolineato un po’ più di un anno fa. La cosa buona. I ricercatori italiani (Monaro, […]<img alt=”” border=”0″ src=”https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=news.sophos.com&blog=834173&post=40178&subd=sophos&ref=&feed=1″ width=”1″ height=”1″ /><img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/7GPhWUQ_2sg” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
Read MoreCredit to Author: Rajib Singha| Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 07:53:29 +0000
AVLab is an independent organization that conducts tests on security software for corporate networks and individual user devices. These tests are conducted by using malicious software, tools, and bypassing security techniques that are used in real cyberattacks. In April 2017, AVLab conducted a ‘Protection test against drive-by download attacks’. What…
The post Quick Heal Total Security receives BEST+++ certification from AVLab appeared first on Quick Heal Technologies Security Blog | Latest computer security news, tips, and advice.
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Credit to Author: Honggang Ren| Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2017 07:00:00 +0000
In our last blog in this series, we discussed FortiGuard Labs’ participation in Google’s second annual Capture The Flag (CTF) competition. In this blogpost, I want to share how I solved another challenge, called“ASCII Art Client”. ChallengeDescription For this challenge, participants were given two files: a binary file aart_client and a network capture aart_client_capture.pcap. File1: aart_client File2: aart_client_capture.pcap The goal of the challenge was: This client displays nice…
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2017 15:24:16 +0000
Several times a week my cell phone receives the telephonic equivalent of spam: A robocall. On each occasion the call seems to come from a local number, but when I answer there is that telltale pause followed by an automated voice pitching some product or service. So when I heard from a reader who chose to hang on the line and see where one of these robocalls led him, I decided to dig deeper. This is the story of that investigation. Hopefully, it will inspire readers to do their own digging and help bury this annoying and intrusive practice.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 15:00:00 +0000
Researchers built a proof-of-concept system to show that Uber and Lyft don’t actually need to know where you are.
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