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A week in security (April 30 – May 6)

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 07 May 2018 17:18:15 +0000

A roundup of security news from April 30 – May 6, including Necurs malspam, Spartacus ransomware, Twitter passwords, and cybersecurity studies.

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And thanks so much for your input, boss!

Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 03:00:00 -0700

It’s 1999, and in this IT department the big crisis isn’t Y2k, says a pilot fish there — it’s the Melissa virus.

“We were infected, and we were all called into the Emergency Operations Center to devise a strategy to determine the extent of infection and how to mitigate the effects,” fish says.

“The server admins were coming up with methods to clean up any servers that were affected. The desktop group was trying to figure out how many desktops were infected. We in the network group were trying to come up with a way to block traffic from the virus, both inbound and outbound, at the firewalls.

“Everything was moving as well as could be expected, but we had to give an update to senior leadership on progress.

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Watch out for Gmail’s new Confidential Mode

Credit to Author: Mike Elgan| Date: Sat, 12 May 2018 03:00:00 -0700

Most email can either be secure or easy to use. You can have one but not both.

That’s why people are so excited about a new feature in Google’s Gmail. It’s called Confidential Mode, and it’s an easy way to make email more private.

Confidential Mode lets you add an “expiration date” to emails. Once that date arrives, the email is no longer viewable by the recipient.

Messages marked as Confidential can’t be copied, forwarded, printed or downloaded.

And you can revoke access at any time.

Sounds great, right? Well, not so fast. There are a lot of “gotchas” in the new Confidential Mode that you need to know about.

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