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Credit to Author: Yaroslava Ryabova| Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 16:26:49 +0000
Many people assume that an HTTPS connection means that the site is secure. In fact, HTTPS is increasingly being used by malicious sites, especially phishing ones.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 14:16:11 +0000
Trend Micro has been named a Leader in the Gartner 2018 Magic Quadrant for Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDPS) again. We have improved our position in both Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute from last year, and we believe that placement in the Leaders’ quadrant illustrates our commitment to meeting the growing security…
Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 11:16:00 -0800
If you’re wondering whether your computer is susceptible to the latest bête noir, Meltdown and Spectre, you can take the official Microsoft patch and, after a suitable amount of technical drudgery, come away with a result that doesn’t answer much. Or you can try Steve Gibson’s new InSpectre and – with suitable caveats – see some meaningful results and a few hints about catching up.
Microsoft has a complex PowerShell script that details your machine’s exposure to the Meltdown and Spectre security flaws. Running that script on all but the simplest and most up-to-date systems turns into a hair-pulling exercise, and the results are coated in 10 layers of technical gobbledygook.
Credit to Author: Marcia Sequeira| Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 18:55:40 +0000
January often marks a fresh start for both organizations and individuals. For many, lots of time is put towards goal setting for the year and taking on new challenges. At Trend Micro, a goal of ours every year is to find new ways to give back to local communities so that we are not only…
Credit to Author: Issie Lapowsky| Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 13:00:00 +0000
Vacant buildings are more than just an economic threat. They’re also a public safety concern. And it turns out they have their own sort of gravitational pull.
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Credit to Author: Doug Bock Clark| Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 11:00:00 +0000
Megan Squire doesn’t consider herself to be antifa and pushes digital activism instead, passing along information to those who might put it to real-world use—who might weaponize it.
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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 07:33:00 -0800
I’ve seen a lot of bizarre Microsoft patches-of-patches, but the new patches for AMD processors are in a world of their own. The security-only, manually downloadable patches appear to be Meltdown/Spectre patches for machines that were bricked by other bad patches, earlier this month, but they’ve arrived with no instructions — and a strange circular logic.
Last week, Microsoft released two patches, with these official titles:
The Win7 KB article says:
Credit to Author: Anna Markovskaya| Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 14:22:28 +0000
The Skygofree Trojan comes with a powerful array of spyware features, some unique — like turning on audio recording by geolocation and stealing private messages.
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