Find out more about the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) of a recently discovered Ryuk ransomware variant to ensure that you can detect and protect against it.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/fortinet/blog/threat-research/~4/0XMR6CReb3c” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2020 10:26:55 +0000
Concerns over cybersecurity risk and possible spying by China have already brought about bans from DHS, DoD, TSA, and the State Department.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/JZyyYvFBZdk” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Over the past several weeks, FortiGuard Labs has been observing a significant increase in both legitimate and malicious activity surrounding the Coronavirus. Read more.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/fortinet/blog/threat-research/~4/3qB4Tkd5qQU” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 13:12:27 +0000
The bill, which would undercut Section 230 protections for online publishing, presents itself as a way to stop online child abuse.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/SqOImXCXz8A” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Mike Elgan| Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 11:14:00 -0700
The Covid-19 crisis is the Black Swan event of our lifetime. Here's how to hold it all together (while keeping employees apart).
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Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 06:26:00 -0700
If you or your employees are working from home while our governments lurch awkwardly through the current crisis, then there are several security considerations that must be explored.
Enterprises must consider the consequences of working from home in terms of systems access, access to internal IT infrastructure, bandwidth costs and data repatriation.
What this means, basically, is that when your worker accesses your data and/or databases remotely, then the risk to that data grows.
While at normal times the risk is only between the server, internal network and end user machine, external working adds public internet, local networks and consumer-grade security systems to the risk mix.
Credit to Author: Greg Lambert| Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 11:41:00 -0700
This is a big update to the Windows platform for the Microsoft March Patch Tuesday release cycle. Consisting of 115 patches, mostly to the Windows desktop, with almost all of the critical issues relating to browser-based scripting engine memory issues, this will be a difficult set of updates to release and manage.
The testing profile for the Windows desktop platform is very large, with a lower than usual exploitability/risk rating. For this month, we do not have any reports of publicly exploited or disclosed vulnerabilities (zero-days), so my recommendation is to take your time, test the changes to each platform, create a staged rollout plan and wait for future (potentially) imminent changes from Microsoft.
Credit to Author: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols| Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2020 07:47:00 -0700
Yesterday, on Patch Tuesday, as I was finishing up the column that follows lamenting the sorry state of Windows 10 patches and providing copious examples of things gone very wrong, a big, fat example landed in my lap (but happily not in my laptop). Word emerged that Microsoft had accidentally leaked news about a new Server Message Block (SMB) bug with a maximum severity rating, a.k.a. SMBGhost. The leak also said that this bug wasn’t patched in that day’s releases.
Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 16:33:29 +0000
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| In part 2 of our series on child identity theft, we examine the signs their PII might be compromised and how to reclaim your child’s identity if it is. We also list ways to protect their data and ID in the future. Categories: Tags: child identity fraudchild identity theftfamiliar fraudidentity compromiseidentity fraudidentity theftnew account fraudpersonally identifiable informationreclaim child identityreclaim identity |
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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2020 07:06:00 -0700
It’s always a good idea to pause Windows updates just before they hit the rollout chute. This month, we’re facing two extraordinary issues that you need to take into account. Wouldn’t hurt if you told your friends and family, too.
Take last month’s Windows patches. Please. We had one patch, KB 4524244, that slid out on Patch Tuesday, clobbered an unknown number of machines (HP PCs with Ryzen processors got hit hard), then remained in “automatic download” status until it was finally pulled on Friday. We had another patch, KB 4532693, that gobbled desktop icons and moved files while performing a nifty trick with temporary user profiles. Microsoft never did fix that one.