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via www.infosecurity-magazine.com FEC Votes to Use Campaign Funds for CybersecurityThe Federal Election Committee (FEC) has voted that lawmakers are allowed to use leftover campaign funds to guard personal email accounts and devices from cyber threats….
Continue ReadingDecember was another month of significant development for Microsoft Threat Protection capabilities. As a quick recap, Microsoft Threat Protection is an integrated solution securing the modern workplace across identities, endpoints, user data, cloud app…
Continue Readingvia www.infosecurity-magazine.com Cyber-Criminal Gets 20 Months After Using Home-Made Fraud DeviceA convicted cyber-criminal once dubbed “the acid house king” has been sentenced to 20 months behind bars for a new fraud campaign which saw him use a biza…
Continue Readingvia www.infosecurity-magazine.com ICO Slaps 200K Fine on Nuisance Text BizThe Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined a London-based company 200,000 for sending millions of nuisance texts to unsuspecting consumers.Tax Return Limited sent a st…
Continue ReadingA large portion of today’s malware infections use malicious Office documents as a first-stage payload. Typically, the user is tricked into enabling macros or disabling some security protection, after which the next-stage payload is downloaded and execu…
Continue ReadingWe live in an era where cyber-attacks come part and parcel with doing business. Companies are routinely hit with attacks big and small and as a result their customers are feeling the impact as well. While your company may not have suffered a major secu…
Continue ReadingBuilding off of the “101” article written here , let’s continue on with the roadmap to becoming a security researcher. In the previous article I explained the many interpretations of what this role consists of versus the “white hat hacker” nomenclature…
Continue ReadingCybercriminals continue to stress-test Windows, and our protective technologies continue to detect their attempts and prevent exploitation. It is not the or even the second discovery of this kind over the past three months. This time, our systems detec…
Continue ReadingMicrosoft announces Windows DNS Server Heap Overflow Vulnerability, users dissatisfied with patch details.
11th December was Microsoft’s December 2018 Patch Tuesday, which means users had to update their computers to be protected from the latest threa…
Continue ReadingMicrosoft released security updates for its products Dec. 11, fixing 38 vulnerabilities including a privilege escalation flaw in the Windows kernel that has been exploited by cyberespionage groups since October. The zero-day vulnerability, tracked as C…
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