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Throwback Thursday: See if you can wriggle out of this one

Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 06:00:00 -0800

It’s several years ago during a major virus outbreak — if you know your history of computer viruses, you can narrow it down — and a user at a remote site calls this pilot fish to complain that her computer won’t let her get any work done.

“I asked her if she had called the local technician — who worked for me — and she replied that she had called him numerous times but he had not picked up his phone,” says fish. “I told her I would take care of it.”

Fish calls his tech, who says he has spoken to the user each time she called and explained to her that he’ll help her as soon as he can, but he’s finishing work in another area.

That satisfies fish, who goes back to his own work. And soon he gets a message from his tech, sent from the irate user’s email account, reporting that the tech checked the user’s PC, found a virus and removed it, and updated the PC’s virus definitions. Case closed.

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QuickHealSecurity

KKNPP Attack: Tracking the DTrack!

Credit to Author: Quick Heal Security Labs| Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 06:11:58 +0000

The recent cyber-attack on Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP) has been confirmed by the officials and yet again security of critical infrastructure has become the talk of the cyber world. The officials mentioned that there is no damage to control systems of the plant as the core processing controls are…

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QuickHealSecurity

The infamous Spyware – Pegasus, The NSO Group and The WhatsApp snooping saga

Credit to Author: Prachi Sudame| Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 07:41:18 +0000

The Indian media is abuzz these days with several news and allegations around snooping on several Indian citizens through a spyware named Pegasus, allegedly delivered through WhatsApp. It’s reported widely that Facebook Inc., the parent company of popular messaging app -WhatsApp, reached out to few users from India (and other…

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MalwareBytesSecurity

SMBs lack resources to defend against cyberattacks, plus pay more in the aftermath

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 21:41:35 +0000

We take a look at the top challenges and threats to SMBs today, and recommend ways they can easily shore up their defenses.

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SecuritySophos

Sophos identifica 15 aplicaciones en la Play Store de Google que utilizan adware para ocultarse

Credit to Author: Naked Security| Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 07:55:21 +0000

Desde hace años, los desarrolladores de aplicaciones móviles incluyen dentro de su programación un código publicitario, como una forma de ayudar a sufragar los costes del desarrollo de dicha app. Sin embargo, algunos desarrolladores simplemente utilizan las aplicaciones como una plataforma abusiva desde la que introducir anuncios en los dispositivos móviles de los usuarios. Recientemente, [&#8230;]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/B2Oy8PVRVNs” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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MalwareBytesSecurity

Cyber insurance: here to stay, whether we like it or not

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 15:00:00 +0000

We take a look at the many reasons people and businesses make use of cyber insurance, and ask if it’s as bad as (some) make it out to be.

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