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Credit to Author: Natasha Hellberg (Senior Threat Researcher)| Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 20:11:58 +0000
Today Trend Micro’s FTR team released more papers on our our continued investigation into our exposed world. Already having looked at the Exposed US, we now turn our attention to Europe, looking not only at Western European capitals, but deeper into three of its largest countries – Germany, France, and the United Kingdom. Once again…
Credit to Author: Issie Lapowsky| Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 17:19:04 +0000
The FCC’s net neutrality public comment period was overrun with bots, making it all but impossible for any one voice to be heard. That’s not how this is supposed to work.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Marvin the Robot| Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 14:00:46 +0000
A new study by Kaspersky Lab showed how insecure smart devices really are. We explain how to cope.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Rajib Singha| Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 09:40:57 +0000
If you weren’t careful with your incoming emails, then it’s time you should. Attackers have released 12.5 million emails hiding a ransomware called the Scarab malware. And Necurs botnet, the world’s largest email spam botnet, is being used in this attack. First, what is a botnet? A group of computers…
Read MoreCredit to Author: Rajib Singha| Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 09:40:57 +0000
If you weren’t careful with your incoming emails, then it’s time you should. Attackers have released 12.5 million emails hiding a ransomware called the Scarab malware. And Necurs botnet, the world’s largest email spam botnet, is being used in this attack. First, what is a botnet? A group of computers…
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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 13:29:00 -0800
Hard to imagine in this age of privacy scandals, but HP is installing a telemetry client on its customers’ computers — and it isn’t offering any warning, or asking permission, before delivering the payload.
Dubbed “HP Touchpoint Analytics Service,” HP says it “harvests telemetry information that is used by HP Touchpoint’s analytical services.” Apparently, it’s HP Touchpoint Analytics Client version 4.0.2.1435.
There are dozens of reports of this new, ahem, service scattered all over the internet. According to Günter Born, reports of the infection go all the way back to Nov. 15, when poster MML on BleepingComputer said:
Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 19:25:39 +0000
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Read MoreCredit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 18:35:42 +0000
– by Zaid Al Hamami co-founder of IMMUNIO Today I am thrilled to announce that IMMUNIO has been acquired by Trend Micro. Our journey started 4 years ago, when Mike Milner and I were frustrated with how difficult it was to secure a web application that we had been developing. One had to accept real…