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Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 16:27:31 +0000

Mobile devices could be the biggest ransomware threat.

Microsoft never sends updates via email. Many folks don’t know that, which is why a new ransomware campaign masquerading as a Windows 10 update is so pernicious. You may have already gotten a fake notice saying “Install Latest Microsoft Update Now!” Or “Critical Microsoft Windows Update!”, with the body of the message asking you to…

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November 20, 2019 admin

Online Phishing: How to Stay Out of the Hackers’ Nets

Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 14:05:56 +0000

Despite the growing popularity of social media and messaging apps, email remains the preferred way to communicate online for millions of Americans. And the bad guys know it. Of the 28.6 billion cyber-threats Trend Micro blocked globally in the first half of 2019, over 24.3 billion were carried by email. That’s 91%. Many of these…

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November 8, 2019 admin

BlueKeep Attacks seen in the wild!

Credit to Author: Sameer Patil| Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 09:54:04 +0000

CVE-2019-0708, popularly known as BlueKeep, is a RDP pre-authentication vulnerability which allows attacker to compromise a vulnerable system without user’s interaction. This exploit is also wormable, meaning that it can spread to other vulnerable systems in a similar way as the WannaCry malware spread across the globe in 2017. Interestingly,…

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October 4, 2019 admin

Decrypting What Zero Trust Is, And What It Likely Isn’t

Credit to Author: Greg Young (Vice President for Cybersecurity)| Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2019 17:33:56 +0000

It’s always an indicator of confusion when instead of hearing “I want Q” I’m asked “what is Q?”. In this case the ‘Q’ is Zero Trust. I’ll try and give my best take on what I understand Zero Trust to be. History Repeats Let’s start with the background. Quite a while back the Jericho Forum…

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September 3, 2019 admin

This Week in Security News: Ransomware Campaigns Persist with WannaCry as Most Common

Credit to Author: Jon Clay (Global Threat Communications)| Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2019 17:36:02 +0000

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about how a total of 118 new ransomware families emerged in the first half of 2018, but only 47 new ones debuted in the first six…

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August 19, 2019 admin

How Do Threats Align With Detection And Solutions?

Credit to Author: Jon Clay (Global Threat Communications)| Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 14:05:16 +0000

There are many different threats targeting many different areas of a corporate network. Have you ever wondered how those threats are stopped? What threats impact which areas of a network? What technology detects and blocks those threats? I wanted to build an interactive graphic to answer those questions. This interactive infographic can help you understand…

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July 26, 2019 admin

This Week in Security News: Unpatched Systems and Lateral Phishing

Credit to Author: Jon Clay (Global Threat Communications)| Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 12:57:24 +0000

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about an attack against Elasticsearch that delivers backdoors as its payload. Additionally, read how cybercriminals are turning to hijacked accounts to perform lateral phishing attacks on…

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March 25, 2019 admin

Recognizing Women’s Empowerment as a Catalyst for Business and Change

Credit to Author: Jean-Pascal Tricoire| Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 02:32:51 +0000

At Schneider, we believe that great people make a great company. This drives our uncompromising commitment to inclusion and equity, and our goal of being the world’s leading socially responsible… Read more »

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