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Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 17:22:42 +0000

Google Chrome may be one of the more secure browsers but an increasing number of malicious extensions are being forced onto users. The one we analyze can hide itself and receive commands from a remote server in order to hijack the browser with incessant offers, fraud and even tech support scams.

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Fortinet Security

February 21, 2017 admin

FortiGuard Labs – Global Healthcare Threat Telemetry for Q4 2016

Credit to Author: Gavin Chow| Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 08:49:01 -0800

This Global Healthcare Threat Telemetry report examines the threat landscape of the global healthcare industry in Q4 2016. It is based on threat telemetry obtained by FortiGuard Labs’ research group from sensors located at 454 healthcare companies located in 50 countries around the globe. FortiGuard Labs, and its more than 200 researchers and analysts located around the world, logs over 400,000 hours of threat research every year by monitoring and analyzing threat telemetry gathered from over two million sensors. The resulting threat intelligence…

ComputerWorld Independent

February 21, 2017 admin

Verizon knocks $350M from Yahoo deal after breaches

Credit to Author: Grant Gross| Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 07:23:00 -0800

Verizon Communications will pay $350 million less for Yahoo after two major data breaches reported by the struggling internet pioneer.

Verizon will pay about $4.48 billion for Yahoo’s operating business, and the two companies will share any potential legal and regulatory liabilities arising from two major data breaches announced in late 2016. The companies announced the amended terms of the deal Tuesday.

In October, one news report had Verizon seeking a $1 billion discount after the first breach was announced.

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Kaspersky Security

February 21, 2017 admin

Forget books, time to burn the dolls

Credit to Author: Jeffrey Esposito| Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 14:00:00 +0000

Connected dolls pose a hacking risk.

ComputerWorld Independent

February 21, 2017 admin

Why robotics is key to cybersecurity's future

Chad Holmes, Principal of Ernst & Young LLP sits down with Neal Weinberg to talk about how cyber-robotics will help shape the future of cybersecurity.

ComputerWorld Independent

February 21, 2017 admin

True privacy online is not viable

Credit to Author: Evan Schuman| Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 03:00:00 -0800

Privacy-concerned consumers desperately want a magic bullet, some simple thing they can use that will protect their identities and their web activity. And although there are a plethora of offerings today that make such a claim — VPNs, privacy-focused browsers such as Tor, privacy search engines such as DuckDuckGo, quite a few services that claim to anonymize anyone’s activity — the practical realities of human behavior make such privacy claims bogus.

Let me stress that almost all of these services do indeed help a person remain anonymous from the casual, untrained observer (the typical roommate, spouse, co-worker, boss, etc.). But any consumer who thinks that these tools will thwart a law enforcement agent, motivated cyberthief or identity thief, or anyone who is willing to spend the time to track you down is in for unhappiness.

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Independent Securiteam

February 20, 2017 admin

Know your community – Steven Seeley

Credit to Author: Maor Schwartz| Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 06:30:14 +0000

You all know him from Twitter as “mr_me” (@steventseeley) we are proud to interview Steven Seeley! Vulnerability researcher, Ruxcon and HITB speaker, founder of Source Incite and a long time Wing Chun student!! Questions Q: How many years have you been working in the security field? A: I have been working in the industry since … Continue reading Know your community – Steven Seeley →

ComputerWorld Independent

February 20, 2017 admin

Hackers behind bank attack campaign use Russian decoy

Credit to Author: Lucian Constantin| Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 07:00:00 -0800

The hackers behind a sophisticated attack campaign that has recently targeted financial organizations around the world have intentionally inserted Russian words and commands into their malware in an attempt to throw investigators off.

Researchers from cybersecurity firm BAE Systems have recently obtained and analyzed additional malware samples related to an attack campaign that has targeted 104 organizations — most of them banks — from 31 different countries.

They found multiple commands and strings in the malware that appear to have been translated into Russian using online tools, the results making little sense to a native Russian speaker.

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