cybersecurity – Page 77 – Computer Security Articles

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2018 17:06:28 +0000

Both artificial intelligence and machine learning are being adopted in cybersecurity. But before they achieve mainstream traction, it’s important to discuss their impact to the industry.

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Kaspersky Security

March 8, 2018 admin

International Women’s Day at the North Pole

Credit to Author: Ilijana Vavan| Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2018 14:57:46 +0000

An expedition to the North Pole celebrates women’s rights and gender equality

Microsoft Security

March 7, 2018 admin

Behavior monitoring combined with machine learning spoils a massive Dofoil coin mining campaign

Credit to Author: Windows Defender Research| Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2018 21:58:45 +0000

Just before noon on March 6 (PST), Windows Defender AV blocked more than 80,000 instances of several sophisticated trojans that exhibited advanced cross-process injection techniques, persistence mechanisms, and evasion methods. Behavior-based signals coupled with cloud-powered machine learning models uncovered this new wave of infection attempts. The trojans, which are new variants of Dofoil (also known

Microsoft Security

March 1, 2018 admin

FinFisher exposed: A researcher’s tale of defeating traps, tricks, and complex virtual machines

Credit to Author: Windows Defender ATP| Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 22:37:20 +0000

Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection (Office 365 ATP) blocked many notable zero-day exploits in 2017. In our analysis, one activity group stood out: NEODYMIUM. This threat actor is remarkable for two reasons: Its access to sophisticated zero-day exploits for Microsoft and Adobe software Its use of an advanced piece of government-grade surveillance spyware FinFisher, also

ScadaICS Schneider

February 27, 2018 admin

How Oil and Gas Executives Can Balance Digitization Investments with Cybersecurity Risk Mitigation

Credit to Author: Gary Freburger| Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 13:00:53 +0000

According to a recent PwC information security survey, the number of cyber incidents has increased at a compound annual rate of 66% since 2009. As the frequency has risen, so… Read more »

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MalwareBytes Security

February 15, 2018 admin

Physician, protect thyself: healthcare cybersecurity circling the drain

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 16:00:00 +0000

Study after study reveals that healthcare cybersecurity breaches are on the uptick. In this blog series, we’ll look into the reasons why healthcare cybercrime is trending, understand the motivations of threat actors behind it, and discuss what the healthcare industry can do to care for itself and the people they swore to protect.

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Tags: byod cybersecurity EHR electronic health record health apps health care healthcare healthcare cybersecurity HIPPA mHealth security training

ScadaICS Schneider

February 14, 2018 admin

How the IIoT Is Delivering on the Promise of Asset Performance Management, Part 4

Credit to Author: John Boville| Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 18:34:57 +0000

Part 1 of this 4-part series introduced ways in which increasing digitization might improve plant operations. Part 2: how IIoT can improve the productivity of reactive, preventive, predictive and proactive… Read more »

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Microsoft Security

February 14, 2018 admin

How artificial intelligence stopped an Emotet outbreak

Credit to Author: Windows Defender ATP| Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 14:43:26 +0000

At 12:46 a.m. local time on February 3, a Windows 7 Pro customer in North Carolina became the first would-be victim of a new malware attack campaign for Trojan:Win32/Emotet. In the next 30 minutes, the campaign tried to attack over a thousand potential victims, all of whom were instantly and automatically protected by Windows Defender