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Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 16:30:10 +0000
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Credit to Author: Bill Brenner| Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 19:32:23 +0000
It’s day 4 of RSA Conference 2017 as I write this. For me, the event ends with a flight home in a few hours. Before doing so, a review of the week is in order. Journalists often write preview stories for RSA, and we’re no exception. My preview appeared on Naked Security last week, and now it’s time […]
Credit to Author: Bill Brenner| Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 18:12:34 +0000
In the latest installment of live videos beaming directly from San Fransisco Sophos security scribe Bill Brenner chats to Mark Loman, director of engineering for next-generation tech at Sophos, about how nation-state attackers meticulously craft their attack code to evade the most advanced security products. (If you haven’t read our pre-RSA Conference Q&A with Mark, why not catch […]
Credit to Author: Greg Lambert| Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 09:52:00 -0800
After a short break since our Patch Tuesday Debugged analysis in January, it looks like we are going to have some delay with Patch Tuesday in February due to a last minute technical issue with the Microsoft release process.
Microsoft had previously indicated that it was going to change the update process for security-related fixes this month — and a bug discovered during this process change may have caused the delay. Chris Goettl from Ivanti, offers this: “In the hours since Microsoft announced it was going to postpone Update Tuesday I have had a number of people asking if this delay was related to Microsoft’s change to a cumulative update model. If it were just one update that was delayed I would agree, but with all updates being delayed I think it is more of a Windows Update Services infrastructure issue.” I would tend to agree.
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Credit to Author: Lucian Constantin| Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 09:08:00 -0800
Android applications that allow millions of car owners to remotely locate and unlock their vehicles are missing security features that could prevent tampering by hackers.
Researchers from antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab took seven of the most popular Android apps that accompany connected cars from various manufacturers, and analyzed them from the perspective of a compromised Android device. The apps and manufacturers have not been named.
The researchers looked at whether such apps use any of the available countermeasures that would make it hard for attackers to hijack them when the devices they’re installed on are infected with malware. Other types of applications, such as banking apps, have such protections.
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Credit to Author: Bill Brenner| Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 16:14:54 +0000
Couldn’t get to RSA? We’ve got you covered on all the juiciest presentations. In this Facebook Live presentation, Sophos principal research scientist Chester Wisniewski and channel SE John Shier use the food pyramid to show what they see as the proper balance of tools in the fight against online attackers. If you haven’t caught […]
Credit to Author: Jaikumar Vijayan| Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 04:51:00 -0800
Paying ransom to a cyber extortionist holding enterprise data hostage might seem like a poor idea in principle but sometimes it might the best, or even only, option for extricating your organization from a crisis.
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Credit to Author: Rommel Joven| Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 18:32:03 -0800
Given the popularity and success of ransomware, it is no surprise that malware authors have been developing more ransomware than ever before. Last year’s cost of ransomware attacks reached $1 billion, which not only shows how this affects businesses, but for cybercriminals the potential pay-out for cyber-extortion can be very lucrative. The rise of ransomware infections may also be attributed to the attractiveness growing availability of Ransomware-as-a-Service (Raas). Ransomware authors posts are now developing user-friendly…
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