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Credit to Author: Joyce Huang| Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2017 12:00:15 +0000
In September, we announced our new email security technologies powered by XGen™ and a new product, Smart Protection for Office 365. One key technology introduced was our new AI based Email fraud, or Business Email Compromise (BEC), detection technique. A user receiving a BEC email will have a difficult time telling whether it is fake…
Credit to Author: Jeffrey Esposito| Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 13:00:34 +0000
5 cybersecurity basics that will help you stay safe at work.
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Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2017 10:00:00 +0000
While an electromagnetic pulse attack could cause plenty of trouble, don’t expect one to come from North Korea.
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Credit to Author: Michael deAgonia| Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2017 02:57:00 -0700
With just a glance, Face ID can unlock Apple’s new iPhone X, giving owners a new authentication paradigm for the first time since the arrival of Touch ID with the iPhone 5. Face ID – that’s Apple’s name for the technology – uses a complex front-facing camera system and accompanying software to unlock the iPhone and authenticate purchases and payments with a mere glance.
The futuristic-seeming tech is one of the iPhone X’s main selling points, along with its “Super Retina” OLED screen, slimmer, bezel-less form factor and improved camera. But it also raises questions about whether the technology is as easy and secure to use as the tried-and-true fingerprint-based Touch ID.
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Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 17:06:00 -0700
Apple on Tuesday patched both macOS and iOS against serious vulnerabilities in the Wi-Fi Protected Access II (WPA2) protocol used to secure wireless networks.
Information about the flaws, dubbed “Krack” by their Belgian discoverer, made news earlier in the month when security researcher Mathy Vanhoef announced weaknesses in WPA2 that could allow criminals to read information transmitted over a Wi-Fi network thought to be encrypted.
Krack, said Vanhoef, stood for “Key Reinstallation Attacks.”
The macOS 10.13.1 and iOS 11.1 updates addressed the Krack vulnerabilities, as well as a slew of others. The Mac update fixed a whopping 148 flaws, while the iPhone and iPad update quashed 20 bugs. The bulk of the macOS patches – 90 of the total – plugged holes in “tcpdump,” an open-source network packet analyzer that’s baked into the operating system.
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Credit to Author: Ed Cabrera (Chief Cybersecurity Officer)| Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 14:30:57 +0000
This last week of National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM), we focus on critical infrastructure (CI). For many years now we have discussed and seen the result of poorly designed and protected control system networks. I wrote on this very topic back in 2016. Now the threat landscape has evolved further and the attack surface…
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 11:00:00 +0000
As the Trump administration reups an anti-hacking agreement with China, security researchers say China is inching its toes up to that red line.
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