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Credit to Author: Leah MacMillan| Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2019 15:00:23 +0000

Art and cybersecurity are not two worlds usually seen sharing the same orbit. But at Trend Micro we believe there’s a vision, a mastery of skill and a passion which unites both. It’s an approach we’ve spent the past three decades honing as serious barriers have emerged to challenge IT efforts to support the business….

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March 6, 2019 admin

The NSA Makes Ghidra, a Powerful Cybersecurity Tool, Open Source

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2019 02:54:10 +0000

No one’s better at hacking than the NSA. And now one if its powerful tools is available to everyone for free.

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March 6, 2019 admin

Clever Tool Uses Apple’s Videogame Logic Engine to Protect Macs

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2019 22:20:28 +0000

A new Mac security service called GamePlan uses a system’s own indicators, and some videogame magic, to keep a lookout.

ComputerWorld Independent

March 5, 2019 admin

Microsoft to start selling Windows 7 add-on support April 1

Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2019 12:06:00 -0800

Microsoft plans to start selling its Windows 7 add-on support beginning April 1.

Labeled “Extended Security Updates” (ESU), the post-retirement support will give enterprise customers more time to purge their environments of Windows 7. From Windows 7’s Jan. 14, 2020 end of support, ESU will provide security fixes for uncovered or reported vulnerabilities in the OS.

Patches will be issued only for bugs rated “Critical” or “Important” by Microsoft, the top two rankings in a four-step scoring system.

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ComputerWorld Independent

March 5, 2019 admin

Huawei’s possible lawsuit, ransomware readiness, old malware resurfaces | TECH(feed)

The ongoing battle between the U.S. and Huawei could soon go to court as Huawei reportedly prepares to sue the U.S. government. Plus, 2019 will see ride sharing companies going public… but which will be first? And as a decade-old malware resurfaces in enterprise networks, a report questions if the world is ready for the next large-scale ransomware attack.

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March 5, 2019 admin

Backstory: An Alphabet Moon Shot Wants to Store the Security Industry’s Data

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2019 21:10:34 +0000

Alphabet-owned Chronicle has announced Backstory, an effort to store network intelligence data and help trace cybersecurity incidents back to their roots.

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March 5, 2019 admin

States Need Way More Money to Fix Crumbling Voting Machines

Credit to Author: Issie Lapowsky| Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2019 12:00:00 +0000

“We are driving the same car in 2019 that we were driving in 2004, and the maintenance costs are mounting,” one South Carolina election official told researchers.

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March 5, 2019 admin

Google Reveals “BuggyCow,” a Rare MacOS Zero-Day Vulnerability

Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2019 22:24:24 +0000

Google’s Project Zero researchers find a potentially powerful privilege escalation trick in how Macs manage memory.