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Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 10:34:00 -0700

Microsoft today will deliver the final security update for Windows 10’s first feature upgrade, the version released in November 2015.

Windows 10 1511 — Microsoft labels its feature upgrades in a yymm format — will receive its last security patches, then fall off Microsoft’s support list. The company had announced 1511’s retirement several times in the past, notably in a support lifecycle fact sheet on Microsoft’s website.

Today is also October’s “Patch Tuesday,” the month’s release of security updates for Microsoft’s products. The company has tied the end of support for Windows 10’s feature upgrades to Patch Tuesdays. The next in line after 1511, last year’s 1607 — aka “Anniversary Update” — has been tentatively scheduled to drop out of support in March 2018. If true, Microsoft will undoubtedly call it quits on March 13, 2018, another Patch Tuesday.

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Security TrendMicro

October 10, 2017 admin

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of October 2, 2017

Credit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2017 14:55:49 +0000

Have you ever read something online and you read a word as something else? Sometimes the weight of our eyelids makes our eyes deceive us after hours staring at a computer screen. As I stated to read a Zero Day Initiative blog published this week by Simon Zuckerbraun, instead of reading the word “Chakra,” which…

Security TrendMicro

October 10, 2017 admin

Cybersecurity in the Workplace is Everybody’s Business

Credit to Author: William “Bill” Malik (CISA VP Infrastructure Strategies)| Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 13:00:04 +0000

What can individual users do to preserve cybersecurity at work? Your organization is spending on cybersecurity tools, you have an awareness program, and if you look you will find that there are standards and procedures for choosing and maintaining products to help keep information secure. But what can an individual do? Remember – you are…

Security TrendMicro

October 10, 2017 admin

Bargains and brotherhood: The underground Digital Souks of the Middle East

Credit to Author: Rik Ferguson (VP, Security Research)| Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 12:00:29 +0000

The release of our report “Digital Souks: A glimpse into the Middle Eastern and North African underground” marks the 12th in our Cybercriminal Underground Economy Series (CUES). Having previously published several papers covering the Japanese, French, German, North American, Chinese, Russian and Brazilian undergrounds this is the first report of its kind focusing on this…

ComputerWorld Independent

October 10, 2017 admin

Duck! Windows and Office patches are coming

Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 04:30:00 -0700

If you’re running Windows, do yourself a favor and put Automatic Update on a temporary hold. Then wait and see if anything comes bursting apart at the seams.

Last month, there was good reason to install specific patches shortly after they were released — at least if you couldn’t train yourself to avoid the “Enable Editing” button in Word. But by and large, if you could avoid that button, there were myriad reasons why waiting a bit before installing the September patches paid off.

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Security Wired

October 10, 2017 admin

Hacking North Korea Won’t Stop Its Nuclear Program

Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 11:00:00 +0000

Security researchers say penetrating North Korea’s hacking operations and even its domestic intranet is possible. But not enough to stop its nuclear threat.

QuickHeal Security

October 9, 2017 admin

A fileless malware uses a unique technique – an analysis by Quick Heal Security Labs

Credit to Author: Quick Heal Security Labs| Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 05:39:51 +0000

Spam email campaigns have increased with the use of multiple random techniques which improve the efficiency of payload distribution to spread malware to more number of users. These attacks have been randomly observed to have increased rapidly in numbers; similar techniques, observed first time in mid-2014, were used in the…

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Security Wired

October 8, 2017 admin

Donald Trump’s Nuclear Rhetoric Echoes Richard Nixon’s ‘Madman’ Theory, But Won’t End Well

Credit to Author: Jeremi Suri| Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2017 11:00:00 +0000

The ongoing war of words between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un echoes Richard Nixon’s Vietnam rhetoric. It won’t play out any better today than it did then.