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Credit to Author: Emily Dreyfuss| Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 20:29:12 +0000
Terrorists use social media to recruit, but they also depend on you and the media to use it to amplify their message. The post Think Before You Tweet In the Wake of an Attack appeared first on WIRED.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 14:00:15 +0000
A new study raises questions about the deterrence value of harsh sentencing for dark web crimes. The post The Silk Road Creator’s Life Sentence Actually Boosted Dark Web Drug Sales appeared first on WIRED.
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Credit to Author: Douglas Jose Pereira| Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 12:23:43 -0700
A major challenge facing security vendors today is that most solutions and products are developed based on knowledge of previous threats that already exist. This makes many security solutions reactive by their very design, which is not a tenable strategy for facing the volume of new attacks and strategies arising today. This arms race of identifying new threats, then reacting has been the primary strategy since the dawn of malware: A new virus is identified and then security vendors write the antivirus signature to block it; a polymorphic virus…
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Credit to Author: John Welton| Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 09:37:21 -0700
We regularly do deep dive Q&A pieces with our executives to share the leadership perspectives at Fortinet. Read below for an interview with Phil Quade, Fortinet's CISO.
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Credit to Author: Tiziana Carboni| Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 13:15:23 +0000
Nei giorni scorsi un numero elevato di organizzazioni a livello mondiale è stato colpito da un nuovo attacco informatico, il ransomware Wanna, conosciuto anche come WannaCry, WCry, WanaCrypt, WanaCrypt0r and Wana DeCrypt0r. Le linee telefoniche e i sistemi informatici del Servizio Sanitario Nazionale inglese (NHS) sono stati presi in ostaggio e da lì si è […]<img alt=”” border=”0″ src=”https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=news.sophos.com&blog=834173&post=34626&subd=sophos&ref=&feed=1″ width=”1″ height=”1″ /><img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/K0L0wsId7Yg” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Sophos Italia| Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 09:27:30 +0000
Nel giugno del 2015 qualcuno collegato all’Università di Plymouth inviò accidentalmente un foglio elettronico contenente gli stipendi, le pensioni e le indennità di 245 membri del personale senior all’indirizzo e-mail errato. L’errore fu segnalato al Commissario per l’informazione del Regno Unito (ICO) e fu affermato che il file era stato eliminato dal destinatario. Finché, dunque, […]<img alt=”” border=”0″ src=”https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=news.sophos.com&blog=834173&post=34396&subd=sophos&ref=&feed=1″ width=”1″ height=”1″ /><img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/Covk7NWhXBw” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
Read MoreCredit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 14:00:26 +0000
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| This article explains how Chrome users are at risk of spilling their Microsoft Authentication credentials by simply visiting the wrong site. Categories: Tags: Adylkuzzchromemicrosoft authenticationransomwarescfShell Command FileSMBWanaCryptWindows Explorer |
The post Stealing Windows credentials using Google Chrome appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Maria Krasnoshchekova| Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 13:00:45 +0000
Learn what antivirus warning messages mean now so you can respond properly if something dangerous happens.
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