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June’s Patch Tuesday – On the Way!
Itâs time for another episode of Microsoft Patch Tuesday! Tell âem what theyâve won, Bob! A new caaaarrrrr! Wait. Thatâs not right. Sorry.
NSA Has Large Disks
One of the hottest buzz of the moment certainly is the breaking news about NSA collecting phone records of Verizon subscribers. According to court order, Verizon has been asked to provide NSA daily information for all its phone records between April 25th and July 19th
Microsoft Hits Citadel Hard
Late last week, Microsoftâs Digital Crimes Unit, working with the FBI and the U.S. courts, took a huge chunk out of the capabilities of the Citadel botnet. Citadel is a ZeuS variant that is responsible for infecting what is believed to be millions of computers across the globe in the hopes of stealing financial information through key logging and form grabbing and using that information to steal money from the bank accounts of infected victims.
Phishing – Alive and Well
Last week I was getting caught up on the usual deluge of emails, and one caught my eye. Iâll admit, at first glance, I almost clicked without thinking.
Dr.Jekyll or Mr.Hyde?
We recently had a company contact us regarding an email they received from their bank. The companyâs access to their online banking account was blocked by its bank due to fraudulent activity observed through its account
New NSS Labs Report: IE’s Browser Security Bests Others
Microsoftâs Internet Explorer 10 is the most secure web browser according to the results of a mid-May 2013 NSS Labsâ analysis. Apple Safari 5, Google Chrome 25/26, Internet Explorer 10, Mozilla Foxfire 19 and Opera 12 were all evaluated against malware downloads and socially engineered malware. Results show that Chromeâs malware download protection improved significantly, up to more than 83 percent from a 70 percent performance in NSSâ October 2012 analysis, Browser C…
The Honeywords Solution
Itâs rare that a week goes by without headlines of data breaches or malware attacks â or the introduction of a solution to stop them in their tracks. The latter is increasingly important, thanks to a rash of exploits on LivingSocial, eHarmony, Sony and Evernote â all part of a long, growing list of high-profile targets. The latest, greatest remedy is what researchers at MIT and RSA have dubbed âhoneywordsâ â a new way to deter hackers from leveraging data…
Tufin Talks ‘Magic’ in Network Security Abstraction
Thereâs no shortage of reports on the latest network security breaches. Each incident holds its own valuable security lesson but itâs beneficial to recognize the incremental successes paving the way to progress. Thatâs exactly what Reuven Harrison of Fortinetâs solution partner Tufin did in a blog published last week.
1,000 malicious Android samples per day
âIs mobile malware really an issue?â is probably among the most frequent questions my friends ask me regarding my work. I usually like to answer indirectly with a graph as below: Figure 1. Evolution of malicious Android samples.