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Credit to Author: Jon Clay (Global Threat Communications)| Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 15:48:46 +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, Apex One™ enters as the evolution of Trend Micro’s endpoint security solution for enterprise. Also, learn about Java Usage Tracker’s new weakness and the conditions that enabled…

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ComputerWorld Independent

October 19, 2018 admin

Policies and paper trails — our new best friends

Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 03:00:00 -0700

This IT pilot fish works with lots of sensitive data — and that means really sensitive, such as child abuse investigations.

“Until a few years ago, I had access to all that data, so I could write ad-hoc reports against it,” says fish. “We ‘systems’ people were given access to everything, so we could troubleshoot application problems for the users.

“Then one day I was called into the CEO’s office. He told me that according to the logs, I did a search against the Child Welfare data for a particular family on a date and time six months earlier — and wanted to know why I did the search.”

As best fish can recall, he was doing the search to troubleshoot a particular report that one caseworker was trying to run. To do that, he used his own workstation to duplicate the steps that the caseworker took to get to the error.

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Security Wired

October 18, 2018 admin

The Mysterious Return of Years-Old APT1 Malware

Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2018 04:01:00 +0000

Security researchers have discovered a new instance code associated with APT1, a notorious Chinese hacking group that disappeared in 2013.

ComputerWorld Independent

October 18, 2018 admin

How to use the Shodan search engine to secure an enterprise's internet presence

Shodan, a search engine for all ports within the internet, can help enterprises identify and lock down security vulnerabilities. Senior writer J.M. Porup and content producer Juliet Beauchamp talk through the security scenarios.

Security Wired

October 17, 2018 admin

Helm Wants You to Control Your Own Data Again

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 13:00:00 +0000

Helm hopes to make running your own private, encrypted server easy for everyone.

ComputerWorld Independent

October 17, 2018 admin

Microsoft Patch Alert: October’s been a nightmare

Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 10:30:00 -0700

This month’s bad patches made headlines. Lots of headlines. For good reason.

You have my sympathy if you clicked “Check for updates” and got all of the files in your Documents and Photos folders deleted. Even if you didn’t become a “seeker” (didn’t manually check for updates) your month may have been filled with blue screens, odd chicken-and-egg errors, and destroyed audio drivers — and Edge and your UWP (“Metro” Store) apps might have been kicked off the internet.

You didn’t need to lift a finger.

Worst Windows 10 rollout ever

Hard to believe that Windows 10 version rollouts could get any worse, but this month hit the bottom of a nearly bottomless barrel. Some folks who clicked “Check for updates” wound up with a brand spanking new copy of Win10 version 1809 — and all of the files in their Documents, Pictures, Music, Videos and other folders disappeared. I have a series of articles on that topic, arranged chronologically:

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Security TrendMicro

October 17, 2018 admin

It’s Everyone’s Job to Ensure Online Safety at Work

Credit to Author: Jon Clay (Global Threat Communications)| Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 13:05:17 +0000

As part of our effort to support National Cyber Security Awareness Month I wanted to provide information on the need for everyone within a business to be aware of their role in keeping the organization safe from cyber attacks. Let’s discuss some of the areas where we see existing organizations employees may be lacking in…

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MalwareBytes Security

October 16, 2018 admin

How to build your own motion-activated security camera

Credit to Author: Jean Taggart| Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 15:00:00 +0000

Attention makers! Are you looking for a challenging project that not only gets your gears grinding but helps to keep you secure while traveling? Welcome to the build-your-own security camera tutorial.

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