Collaborate Disseminate
This is your Shared Security Weekly Blaze for November 5th 2018 with your host, Tom Eston. In this week’s episode: Microsoft and Apple security Updates, Signal’s sealed sender and the Girl Scouts data breach. Silent Pocket is a proud sponso… Continue reading Microsoft and Apple Security Updates, Signal’s Sealed Sender, Girl Scouts Data Breach – WB41
Microsoft Windows built-in anti-malware tool, Windows Defender, has become the very first antivirus software to have the ability to run inside a sandbox environment.
Sandboxing is a process that runs an application in a safe environment isolated from … Continue reading Windows Built-in Antivirus Gets Secure Sandbox Mode – Turn It ON
When is a security
breach serious, less serious or not a breach at all?
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Our endpoint
protection tests have always included targeted attacks.
These allow us to gauge
how effectively anti-malware products, in use by millions of… Continue reading Latest security tests introduce attack chain scoring
The spam campaign mostly targets victims in Turkey and Germany. Continue reading Adwind RAT Scurries By AV Software With New DDE Variant
Security-testing company NSS Labs has filed an antitrust lawsuit against multiple prominent cybersecurity vendors, alleging that they conspired to restrict testing of their products. The suit, filed Tuesday in a U.S. district court in Northern California, claims NSS Labs has already “suffered substantial damages” from the alleged antitrust actions of CrowdStrike, Symantec and ESET, along with the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization (AMTSO). Unless an injunction is issued against the alleged conspiracy, the complaint says, “NSS Labs will suffer further injury, including irreparable injury such as permanent loss of market share.” The complaint alleges that the vendors used the AMTSO, a California-based forum for considering anti-malware testing methods, to violate U.S. and California antitrust laws. Specifically, the complaint holds, the defendants threatened not to do business with product testers that voted against the AMTSO standard, which NSS Labs opposed. CrowdStrike, ESET, NSS Labs, and Symantec are all AMTSO members. NSS Labs […]
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Cybersecurity company Cylance announced on Thursday that it’s making its consumer anti-virus product free until the November election in order to help political organizations protect sensitive data. While the company is primarily positioning the move as a way to protect political campaigns from cyberthreats, the free offer of Cylance Smart Antivirus applies all U.S. residents. The Irvine, California, company joins a number of others that have made some programs or services free for the sake of election security. Some offers have focused on state and local election systems, while others are marketed toward candidates and campaigns. People can sign up for Cylance’s offer between now and Nov. 9 — the week of Election Day — and the free service will expire on November 30. The product uses artificial intelligence to monitor a user’s system and detect and block malware. The election security offer covers three devices for free. That’s likely not enough to protect an entire political organization, but […]
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This post will detail the system requirements and considerations for planning an Azure File Sync deployment.
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What happens when your choice of security software handles an attack?
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It should be simple. You’ve clicked on the wrong link, opened a malicious email or installed something inadvisable. A threat is now attacking your PC and i… Continue reading Detected, blocked, quarantined, cleaned?
Referenced from Linux-Audit: To get ClamAV on CentOS installed, we have to use the EPEL repository (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux). Fortunately, the Fedora project provides this with an easy installation. Unfortunately the default configuration [… Continue reading Installing ClamAV on CentOS 7
When an online scam becomes too successful, the results can be farcical.
In the movie Small Time Crooks, Woody Allen leads an inept gang of would-be robbers who rent a store next to a bank. They plan to tunnel into the vault. As a cover, Allen’s girlfr… Continue reading Big Time Crooks