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Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 14:00:23 +0000

Maintaining protection over an enterprise’s critical data, systems and assets is a continual uphill battle. Not only are chances good that the business’s digital footprint is growing through new applications, but hackers are also constantly bolstering their capabilities to silently breach platforms and maintain a presence under the radar of the IT team. In the…

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ComputerWorld Independent

January 29, 2019 admin

Apple’s Group FaceTime: A place for spies?

Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 05:30:00 -0800

Apple has disabled Group FaceTime following discovery of a flaw that could potentially let people hear audio from other people’s devices without permission. What’s going on and what can you do about it?

The bug, in brief

A 9to5Mac report based on a video published to Twitter by @BmManski revealed that this flaw lets a user listen to audio captured using another person’s device before they accept or reject the call requesting a FaceTime chat. The problem only affects iOS devices running iOS 12.1 or later (pending an update).

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ComputerWorld Independent

January 29, 2019 admin

The race to lock down industrial control systems | Salted Hash Ep 44

Guest host Juliet Beauchamp and CSO senior writer J.M. Porup talk about the challenges around securing the systems and networks used to control industrial plants and infrastructures.

QuickHeal Security

January 28, 2019 admin

Anatova, A modular ransomware

Credit to Author: Shriram Munde| Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 06:09:49 +0000

While everyone was engaged in new year celebrations, malware authors were busy creating new ransomware for 2019. Quick Heal Security Labs has discovered the first ransomware of 2019 — Anatova ransomware. During our analysis, we found that Anatova is not just ransomware but a modular one. By modular ransomware we…

QuickHeal Security

January 28, 2019 admin

Mongolock Ransomware deletes files and targets databases

Credit to Author: Shriram Munde| Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 05:30:20 +0000

Ransomware has become one of the most dangerous cyber-attack methods because of the different techniques it uses to encrypt the files and evade the detection of security software to earn money. Also, at a time, it’s not limited to encrypting user’s files but also deletes the files and formats the…

MalwareBytes Security

January 28, 2019 admin

A week in security (January 21 – 27)

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 18:00:14 +0000

A roundup of last week’s security news from January 21 to 27, including Modlishka, Crytekk, PUPs, and the State of Malware report.

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Security Sophos

January 28, 2019 admin

DHCP, Edge, Office, Hyper-V Receive Critical New Year Updates

Credit to Author: Andrew Brandt| Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 17:30:52 +0000

Just connecting to a (malicious) wireless network could lead to Bad Things Happening, but none of the patched bugs have been seen in the wild (yet!)<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/a-RO7S2VeRA” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

ComputerWorld Independent

January 28, 2019 admin

Sharding: What it is and why many blockchain protocols rely on it

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 03:00:00 -0800

As blockchains are being rolled out in an increasing number of pilot programs for everything from cross-border financial transactions to supply chain management, one persistent issue remains: a lack of scalability.

As more computers join the peer-to-peer network, the efficiency of the whole system typically degrades.

Scalability has already been identified as an issue with cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and Ethereum’s Ether. If a distributed ledger is to achieve adoption by financial technology (FinTech) companies and compete with payment networks hundreds of times faster, it must find a way to boost scalability and throughput and address latency problems.

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