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FortiGuard Labs has been monitoring a new release of the malware known as Predator the Thief, labeled as version 3.3.4. Read more about its latest set of capabilities in this analysis.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/fortinet/blog/threat-research/~4/XhRhMuXC-MM” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2020 18:17:21 +0000
Organizations in the throes of cleaning up after a ransomware outbreak typically will change passwords for all user accounts that have access to any email systems, servers and desktop workstations within their network. But all too often, ransomware victims fail to grasp that the crooks behind these attacks can and frequently do siphon every single password stored on each infected endpoint. The result of this oversight may offer attackers a way back into the affected organization, access to financial and healthcare accounts, or — worse yet — key tools for attacking the victim’s various business partners and clients.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2020 20:04:21 +0000
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| We look at the ways in which criminals and vultures use less-than-honest tactics to fleece the search engine industry for a piece of its billion-dollar pie. Categories: Tags: adfraudadvertisementsadwareextensionshijackerspotentially unwanted programsPUPsresultssearchsearch enginesearch engine optimizationsearch enginesSEOseo poisoningsponsored |
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Read MoreCredit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2020 17:38:33 +0000
Trend Micro Apex One™ as a Service You have heard it before, but it needs to be said again—threats are constantly evolving and getting sneakier, more malicious, and harder to find than ever before. It’s a hard job to stay one step ahead of the latest threats and scams organizations come across, but it’s something…
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Credit to Author: Louise Matsakis| Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2020 17:00:24 +0000
Forget Portal. This year, Facebook is marketing itself as a privacy crusader.
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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2020 09:55:00 -0800
It was the kind of month admins dread: Mysterious problems on hundreds of machines, with no apparent cause or cure. Toss in the holidays, and we had a whole lot of Mr. and Ms. Grinches in the industry.
Fortunately, it looks like the problems have been sorted out at this point. Individual users had many fewer problems. Microsoft’s left and right hands still aren’t talking on the 1909 team, but what else is new…
Microsoft dropped a new Servicing Stack Update for Windows 7 on Dec. 10, and it gummed up the works for many. Here’s a good summary on Reddit from poster Djaesthetic:
Credit to Author: Michelle Davidson| Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2020 09:46:00 -0800
If blockchain felt more like hype than reality in 2019, prepare for that to change. Industry watchers expect 2020 to be the year the distributed ledger technology matures and we see use cases that go beyond cryptocurrency.
Areas where experts envision growth include data security, the supply chain and electronic health records.
“Someone’s gonna hit me, but I think blockchain as it relates to data security (think access management) is going to have some landmark use cases in 2020,” Siobhan Climer, science and technology writer at Mindsight, said during a recent IDG TECH(talk) Twitter chat.
