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Credit to Author: Bill McGee| Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 09:06:35 -0700

Given the very public explosion of ransomware, and an ever-growing list of other cyber threats, IT services providers are increasingly looking for ways to meet the insatiable demand for cybersecurity. In this article we will look at some of the trends and challenges facing the MSSP community. How has the cost and shortage of security talent empowered the MSS domain? There are two forces driving the growth of MSS – complexity and cost. The complexity of threats and regulations continues to grow, with no change in sight. On the cost side, there…

Kaspersky Security

May 25, 2017 admin

How GDPR will affect your business

Credit to Author: David Buxton| Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 13:00:56 +0000

GDPR is just around the corner. Is your business prepared for it? Learn how others see GDPR and how it will change the world.

MalwareBytes Security

May 25, 2017 admin

RoughTed: The anti ad-blocker malvertiser

Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 14:00:52 +0000

A look at RoughTed, a purveyor of ad-blocker aware malvertising responsible for a range of scams, exploits, and malware.

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Tags: ad-maven adware exploit kits exploits Magnitude malvertising PUPs RIG RoughTed scams tech support scams trojan

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ComputerWorld Independent

May 25, 2017 admin

IDG Contributor Network: The complexity of password complexity

Credit to Author: Sandra Henry-Stocker| Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 05:47:00 -0700

Deploying password quality checking on your Debian-base Linux servers can help to ensure that your users assign reasonable passwords on their accounts, but the settings themselves can be a bit misleading. For example, setting a minimum password length of 12 characters does not mean that your users’ passwords will all have twelve or more characters. Let’s stroll down Complexity Boulevard and see how the settings work and examine some settings worth considering.

First, if you haven’t done this already, install the password quality checking library with this command:

apt-get -y install libpam-pwquality

The files that contain most of the settings we’re going to look at will be:

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Security TrendMicro

May 25, 2017 admin

WannaCry Highlights Major Security Shortcomings Ahead of GDPR D-Day

Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 13:48:37 +0000

For all the panic it caused, WannaCry looks finally to have been contained by organisations round the globe. But this isn’t the time to forget about it and move on. There are valuable lessons to be learned about this attack, why it was so successful and what can be done to prevent it happening again….

MalwareBytes Security

May 24, 2017 admin

5 Unsettling cyberthreats

Credit to Author: William Tsing| Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 18:39:46 +0000

Cyberthreats are typically boring, repetitive, and require a reasonably predictable remediation process. Here are 5 cyberthreats that if you’re not frightened by, you should be.

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Tags: botnet cyberthreats ddos IoT law mirai Mirai botnet RATs vnc

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ComputerWorld Independent

May 24, 2017 admin

Appeals court gives Wikimedia thumbs up to sue NSA for 'Upstream' surveillance

Credit to Author: Darlene Storm| Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 08:26:00 -0700

Well, well, well, the NSA may not waltz away legally unscathed after spying on Americans’ private communications due to the dogged determination of the Wikimedia Foundation, the ACLU, the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University and eight other co-plaintiffs.

The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled to give Wikimedia a chance to legally challenge the NSA’s mass surveillance as being unconstitutional. The government has previously argued that the NSA’s Upstream warrantless spying is authorized under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Thanks to Upstream surveillance, the NSA sucks up and searches through American’s international internet communications.

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QuickHeal Security

May 24, 2017 admin

WannaCry ransomware recap: Some important facts you need to know

Credit to Author: Rajib Singha| Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 13:27:03 +0000

Ransomware is a malware that locks your computer making it inaccessible or it encrypts your data. It then demands you to pay a ransom for unlocking the computer or decrypting the data. This post talks about the file encrypting ransomware called WannaCry – the biggest ransomware attack in history! 1….

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