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Credit to Author: sophosbenelux| Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 15:15:34 +0000

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Security Sophos

May 12, 2017 admin

Webinars you’ve been waiting for!

Credit to Author: sophosbenelux| Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 15:30:03 +0000

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Security Sophos

May 12, 2017 admin

Data Protection Day, GDPR én Sophos

Credit to Author: sophosbenelux| Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 16:54:02 +0000

Bedrijven spelen een belangrijke rol in de bescherming van privacy. Tijdens Data Protection Day (zaterdag 28 januari aanstaande) worden bedrijven nog eens extra aan herinnerd om concrete plannen te maken ten aanzien van General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Vanaf mei 2018 treedt de nieuwe Europese verordening in werking en zijn alle organisaties die persoonsgegevens verwerken […]<img alt=”” border=”0″ src=”https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=news.sophos.com&blog=834173&post=791&subd=sophos&ref=&feed=1″ width=”1″ height=”1″ /><img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/zpTkpon3kgI” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

ComputerWorld Independent

May 10, 2017 admin

Microsoft finally bans SHA-1 certs in IE and Edge

Credit to Author: Lucian Constantin| Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 09:08:00 -0700

The Tuesday updates for Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge force those browsers to flag SSL/TLS certificates signed with the aging SHA-1 hashing function as insecure. The move follows similar actions by Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox earlier this year.

Browser vendors and certificate authorities have been engaged in a coordinated effort to phase out the use of SHA-1 certificates on the web for the past few years, because the hashing function no longer provides sufficient security against spoofing.

SHA-1 (Secure Hash Algorithm 1) dates back to 1995 and has been known to be vulnerable to theoretical attacks since 2005. The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology has banned the use of SHA-1 by U.S. federal agencies since 2010, and digital certificate authorities have not been allowed to issue SHA-1-signed certificates since Jan. 1, 2016, although some exemptions have been made — for example, for outdated payment terminals.

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Kaspersky Security

April 19, 2017 admin

Drone gone in 11 milliseconds

Credit to Author: Alex Perekalin| Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 13:00:42 +0000

Drones are a part of the Internet of Things, which is widely known to be vulnerable. SEO title: How to hijack a drone

Security Wired

April 12, 2017 admin

Suing to See the Feds’ Encrypted Messages? Good Luck

Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 23:37:55 +0000

Conservative watchdog Judicial Watch is suing the EPA for staffers’ Signal messages. It may hit the encrypted limits of federal transparency. The post Suing to See the Feds’ Encrypted Messages? Good Luck appeared first on WIRED.

ComputerWorld Independent

April 4, 2017 admin

A free decryption tool is now available for all Bart ransomware versions

Credit to Author: Lucian Constantin| Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2017 10:00:00 -0700

Users who have had their files encrypted by any version of the Bart ransomware program are in luck: Antivirus vendor Bitdefender has just released a free decryption tool.

The Bart ransomware appeared in June and stood out because it locked victims’ files inside ZIP archives encrypted with AES (Advanced Encryption Standard). Unlike other ransomware programs that used RSA public-key cryptography and relied on a command-and-control server to generate key pairs, Bart was able to encrypt files even in the absence of an internet connection.

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MalwareBytes Security

April 4, 2017 admin

Your ISP, browsing history, and what to do about it

Credit to Author: William Tsing| Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2017 17:17:02 +0000

In late March, Congress approved a bill lifting restrictions imposed on ISPs last year concerning what they could do with information such as customer browsing habits, app usage history, location data, and Social Security numbers. Given that the repealed restrictions hadn’t yet come into effect, the immediate impact of the new bill is somewhat unclear. But given what typically happens with massive stores of aggregated, location-specific customer data, the prognosis is not good.

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