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Credit to Author: Greg Young (Vice President for Cybersecurity)| Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 13:22:58 +0000

Real enterprises are messy places. One messy reality is that enterprises don’t manage all their endpoints. A smart colleague turned me onto using the % of endpoints and servers managed as a prime security metric. On one end of the spectrum are places like universities that maybe manage 10% of the endpoints on their network….

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Security Wired

August 18, 2019 admin

A Brief History of Vanity License Plates Gone Wrong

Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2019 11:00:00 +0000

The stories might sound unbelievable, but they’re all real—and a cautionary tale for anyone who wants to get clever at the DMV.

Security Wired

August 17, 2019 admin

Facebook’s Voice Transcripts Were More Invasive Than Amazon’s

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2019 13:00:00 +0000

The Capital One hacker, a Bluetooth vulnerability, and more of the week’s top security news.

Security Wired

August 16, 2019 admin

How Facebook Catches Bugs in Its 100 Million Lines of Code

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 21:03:59 +0000

For the past four years, Facebook has quietly used a homegrown tool called Zoncolan to find bugs in its massive codebase.

Security TrendMicro

August 16, 2019 admin

Innovate or Die?

Credit to Author: William “Bill” Malik (CISA VP Infrastructure Strategies)| Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 15:13:14 +0000

The recent series of IT acquisitions and IPOs highlight a simple economic fact: companies that fail to keep up with the fast-paced innovation of technology can easily become targets for acquisition. Mark Twain put it this way: History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes. As a former Gartner analyst, I find it irresistible to comment…

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August 16, 2019 admin

This Week in Security News: Phishing Campaigns and a Biometric Data Breach

Credit to Author: Jon Clay (Global Threat Communications)| Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 14:05:21 +0000

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about ever-increasing amounts of phishing campaigns and how Trend Micro caught 2.4 million attacks of this type — a 59% increase from 1.5 million in the…

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August 15, 2019 admin

Kostya and Me: How Sam Patten Got Ensnared in Mueller’s Probe

Credit to Author: Sam Patten| Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 21:43:49 +0000

A political consultant crosses paths with Konstantin Kilimnik, Paul Manafort, and Cambridge Analytica, then becomes part of the Russia investigation.

ComputerWorld Independent

August 15, 2019 admin

Microsoft warns of Visual Basic, VBA and VBScript 'procedure call' errors after August patches

Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 05:28:00 -0700

August is going to be a perilous patching month.

We’re tracking down credible reports of the Server 2012 R2 Monthly rollup breaking RDP logins, a conflict between the Win10 1903 cumulative update and last month’s version of Outlook 365, confusion about Win7 patches being branded as “IA64 only,” dealing with the lack of telemetry (!) in the August Win7 Security Only patch, much mayhem trying to install SHA-2 signed patches (including the Win7 Monthly Rollup) on systems using Symantec Endpoint Protection, even more confusion over the difference between Symantec Endpoint Protection and Norton Security Suite, and lots of the usual installation failures and rollbacks.

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