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Credit to Author: Thomas Reed| Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 15:00:40 +0000

According to a report from Motherboard, a group of hackers calling themselves “Turkish Crime Family” is threatening to remotely erase devices belonging to hundreds of millions of Apple customers. They will do this on April 7, they say, if Apple doesn’t pay them a ransom.

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Security TrendMicro

March 23, 2017 admin

Why hardware configurations could be the downfall of the IoT

Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 16:16:22 +0000

Hardware configuration could leave your IoT devices vulnerable to attacks. Ignoring the configurations of your IoT devices puts your business at risk, making it important to secure your systems appropriately.

Security TrendMicro

March 23, 2017 admin

Pwn2Own 2017 – An Event for the Ages

Credit to Author: Brian Gorenc| Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 16:00:29 +0000

The 10th anniversary of Pwn2Own just successfully completed as the Zero Day Initiative spent $833,000 acquiring 51 different 0-day bugs. The event was filled with drama as vendors released their security patches the day before the contest, causing a number of entries to pull out immediately. Over the next three days, five additional entries would…

Security Wired

March 23, 2017 admin

The Clever ‘DoubleAgent’ Attack Turns Antivirus Into Malware

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 15:33:05 +0000

The bug potentially puts every Windows antivirus program at risk, but also hints at more fundamental problems with relying on AV. The post The Clever ‘DoubleAgent’ Attack Turns Antivirus Into Malware appeared first on WIRED.

Fortinet Security

March 23, 2017 admin

iSNS Server Memory Corruption Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Server

Credit to Author: Honggang Ren| Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 07:36:12 -0700

All users of vulnerable versions of the Microsoft Windows Server are encouraged to upgrade to the latest version of this software. Additionally, organizations that have deployed Fortinet IPS solutions are already protected from this vulnerability.

Security TrendMicro

March 23, 2017 admin

2016 Review of Vulnerabilities

Credit to Author: Jon Clay| Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 13:00:45 +0000

In our 2016 security roundup report, A Record Year for Enterprise Threats, we talked about the vulnerability landscape during the year and what trends we saw. Let’s look at some of the key aspects of what we saw in 2016. 1. Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) with support of their 3,000+ independent vulnerability researchers,…

Kaspersky Security

March 23, 2017 admin

Kaspersky AdCleaner: Anti-Banner for iOS

Credit to Author: John Snow| Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 13:00:06 +0000

Kaspersky AdCleaner is our ad-blocking tool for iOS. Use it to forget about banners, prolong battery life, and open websites faster!

Security TrendMicro

March 23, 2017 admin

The S In HTTPS

Credit to Author: Mark Nunnikhoven (Vice President, Cloud Research)| Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 12:00:37 +0000

If you’ve ever bought anything online, checked your bank accounts through the app, or logged on to your favorite social media network, you’ve used a technology called SSL/TLS. The S in HTTPS. SSL/TLS (just to keep it simple, I’ll refer to as SSL) is the technology used to encrypt the communication between your browser and…