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SecurityTrendMicro

This Week in Security News: Spam Campaigns and Vulnerable Infrastructures

Credit to Author: Jon Clay (Global Threat Communications)| Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2018 13:00:26 +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, see how cybercriminals have learned to become more creative with malware through spam campaigns. Also, understand why securing energy and water should remain top priority in integration…

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ComputerWorldIndependent

Why Apple’s Siri is already an enterprise product

Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2018 08:36:00 -0700

The usual suspects love to spend time claiming Siri lags other voice assistants in some ways, but they don’t seem to understand that Apple’s voice assistant is an enterprise product.

Why is Siri an enterprise product?

This is what happens when you use a voice search tool: You activate the assistant, it listens to what you say, identifies that a request is being made and sends that request to the cloud to be resolved and responded to.

This all happens pretty quickly and after a short delay your response arrives, or an action takes place.

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SecurityTrendMicro

Threat Intelligence, the Dark Web and Information sharing: Supporting improved protection

Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2018 13:00:34 +0000

There are numerous different elements and obstacles that contribute to the challenges of data protection in the current threat environment. However, a leading issue is ensuring protection against the latest, emerging attack styles and breach strategies. After all, how can an organization ensure the security of its most critical information and assets if they don’t…

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QuickHealSecurity

Obfuscated Equation Editor Exploit (CVE-2017-11882) spreading Hawkeye Keylogger

Credit to Author: Pradeep Kulkarni| Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2018 06:17:45 +0000

Cyber-attacks through phishing emails are increasing and generally, attackers use DOC embedded macros to infiltrate victim’s machine. Recently Quick Heal Security Labs came across a Phishing e-mail sample which uses Microsoft’s equation editor exploit to spread Hawkeye keylogger. Cybercriminals use different techniques to steal confidential data. Now they are offering…

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