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Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2018 15:00:50 +0000

One of the best ways for organizations to shore up their data security efforts and work toward more proactive protection is by examining trends within the threat environment. Taking a look at the strategies for attack, infiltration and infection currently being utilized by hackers can point toward the types of security issues that will continue…

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October 22, 2018 admin

Safeguarding the Nation’s Critical Infrastructure

Credit to Author: William “Bill” Malik (CISA VP Infrastructure Strategies)| Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 14:43:06 +0000

In May of 1998, President Clinton issued Presidential Decision Directive 63: Protecting America’s Critical Infrastructures. This Directive proposed steps to enact the recommendations of the President’s Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection, published in October 1997. Twenty years on, how are things going? The US Federal government has identified critical infrastructure sectors and associated each with…

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MalwareBytes Security

October 8, 2018 admin

A week in security (October 1 – 7)

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2018 16:31:56 +0000

A roundup of the security news from October 1–7 including National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, LoJack, fileless malware, and BYOS.

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September 28, 2018 admin

Millions of accounts affected in latest Facebook hack

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2018 19:39:11 +0000

Facebook announced earlier today that its social network had been breached, resulting in 40 million accounts that were directly impacted. Learn more as the Facebook breach story develops.

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MalwareBytes Security

September 26, 2018 admin

Buggy implementation of CVE-2018-8373 vulnerability used to deliver Quasar RAT

Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2018 17:13:26 +0000

A threat actor implements a newer vulnerability exploited in Internet Explorer to serve up the Quasar RAT and diversify the portfolio of attacks.

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Tags: anti exploit CVE-2018-8174 CVE-2018-8373 exploit Indicators of compromise IOC IOCs pastebin patch Quasar rat remote administration tool virustotal vulnerabilities vulnerability

MalwareBytes Security

September 21, 2018 admin

Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) vulnerabilities

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2018 15:00:00 +0000

The Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) is an essential element of online authentication. But are you aware of all the known vulnerabilities? And, more importantly, have you patched them?

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Tags: authentication brute force denial of service exploits mailserver sasl Simple Authentication and Security Layer vulnerabilities

Kaspersky Security

September 21, 2018 admin

Mobile beasts and where to find them — part three

Credit to Author: Leonid Grustniy| Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2018 10:42:17 +0000

Let’s talk about mobile malware that can empty your bank account or spy on you.

Security Sophos

September 19, 2018 admin

Microsoft’s September patches fix a raft of serious bugs

Credit to Author: Andrew Brandt| Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2018 18:00:07 +0000

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