January 2020 – Page 28 – PossibleThreat Articles

Billion-dollar search engine industry attracts vultures, shady advertisers, and cybercriminals

January 6, 2020 0 Comments adfraud, advertisements, adware, extensions, hijackers, potentially unwanted programs, PUPs, results, search, search engine, search engine optimization, search engines, seo, seo poisoning, sponsored

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2020 20:04:21 +0000

We look at the ways in which criminals and vultures use less-than-honest tactics to fleece the search engine industry for a piece of its billion-dollar pie.

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Independent Krebs Security

The Hidden Cost of Ransomware: Wholesale Password Theft

January 6, 2020 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, alex holden, Hold Security, karen christianson, mark schafer, Ransomware, ryuk, sva consulting, The Coming Storm, vcpi

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2020 18:17:21 +0000

Organizations in the throes of cleaning up after a ransomware outbreak typically will change passwords for all user accounts that have access to any email systems, servers and desktop workstations within their network. But all too often, ransomware victims fail to grasp that the crooks behind these attacks can and frequently do siphon every single password stored on each infected endpoint. The result of this oversight may offer attackers a way back into the affected organization, access to financial and healthcare accounts, or — worse yet — key tools for attacking the victim’s various business partners and clients.

ComputerWorld Independent

Microsoft Patch Alert: December patches hang Win7 Pro endpoints and force Server 2012 reboots

January 6, 2020 0 Comments Microsoft, Microsoft Office, PCs, Security, Windows

Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2020 09:55:00 -0800

It was the kind of month admins dread: Mysterious problems on hundreds of machines, with no apparent cause or cure. Toss in the holidays, and we had a whole lot of Mr. and Ms. Grinches in the industry.

Fortunately, it looks like the problems have been sorted out at this point. Individual users had many fewer problems. Microsoft’s left and right hands still aren’t talking on the 1909 team, but what else is new…

Win7 hang on ‘Preparing to configure Windows’

Microsoft dropped a new Servicing Stack Update for Windows 7 on Dec. 10, and it gummed up the works for many. Here’s a good summary on Reddit from poster Djaesthetic:

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Security Sophos

Don’t fall for the “Start your 2020 with a gift from us” scam…

January 6, 2020 0 Comments courier, courier scam, phishing, Spam, Uncategorized

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2020 17:09:22 +0000

There is no free Macbook. There IS no free Macbook. There is NO free Macbook.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/6ku0_sae734″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

ComputerWorld Independent

Top 3 enterprise tech trends to watch in 2020

January 6, 2020 0 Comments Artificial intelligence, Blockchain, Collaboration, Internet of Things, networking, Security

Credit to Author: Michelle Davidson| Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2020 09:46:00 -0800

If blockchain felt more like hype than reality in 2019, prepare for that to change. Industry watchers expect 2020 to be the year the distributed ledger technology matures and we see use cases that go beyond cryptocurrency.

Areas where experts envision growth include data security, the supply chain and electronic health records.

“Someone’s gonna hit me, but I think blockchain as it relates to data security (think access management) is going to have some landmark use cases in 2020,” Siobhan Climer, science and technology writer at Mindsight, said during a recent IDG TECH(talk) Twitter chat.

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MalwareBytes Security

A week in security (December 30 – January 5)

January 6, 2020 0 Comments A week in security, CISO, malware, skimmer, TikTok, week in security, weekly roundup

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2020 17:20:25 +0000

A roundup of the previous week’s most notable security stories and events, including new web skimmer techniques, an explanation of edge computing, and more.

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A week in security

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Security TrendMicro

The Everyday Cyber Threat Landscape: Trends from 2019 to 2020

January 6, 2020 0 Comments Antivirus, computer security, Consumer, home network security, identity security, Mobile Security, password management, Privacy, Security

Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2020 13:15:04 +0000

The past 12 months have been another bumper year for cybercrime affecting everyday users of digital technology. Trend Micro blocked more than 26.8 billion of these threats in the first half of 2019 alone. The bad news is that there are many more out there waiting to steal your personal data for identity fraud, access…

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Security Sophos

Monday review – the hot stories of the holidays

January 6, 2020 0 Comments computer security, infosec, monday review, news, security news, weekly roundup, Weekly Summary

Credit to Author: Naked Security writer| Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2020 10:40:25 +0000

From ‘Greta Thunberg’ malware to Python 3, get yourself up to date with everything we've written since Christmas.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/TCSlQtPBF6o” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

ComputerWorld Independent

Amid privacy and security failures, digital IDs advance

January 6, 2020 0 Comments Blockchain, Emerging Technology, Financial Services Industry, Government IT, identity management, Privacy, Security

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2020 03:00:00 -0800

Frustration over a growing number of privacy and security failuresin recent years is driving the creation of digital identities controlled only by those whose information they contain.

Known as “self-sovereign identities,” the digital IDs will be used by consumers, businesses, their workers and governments over the next few years to verify everything from credit worthiness and college diplomas to licenses and business-to-business credentials.

“We are slowly graduating from crawling to walking. It takes one to two years ’til we have reliable capabilities to spark meaningful decentralized identity adoption,” said Homan Farahmand, a senior research director at Gartner. “A major non-technical hurdle is for organizations to learn the concept and take the necessary steps to appropriately adapt their business processes to decentralized identity ecosystems.”

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