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One, employees are working from their home networks and sometimes from their home computers. Employees working from home are going to save data on their own computers, where they aren't protected by the organization's security systems.
Ransomware operators of DoppelPaymer and Maze malware stated that they will not target medical organisations during the current pandemic. Laurence Abrams, who runs the security news site Bleeping Computer, reports that he made contact with "The operators of the Maze, DoppelPaymer, Ryuk, Sodinokibi/REvil, PwndLocker, and Ako Ransomware infections to ask if they would continue targeting health and medical organizations during the outbreak."
Ransomware operators of DoppelPaymer and Maze malware stated that they will not target medical organisations during the current pandemic. Laurence Abrams, who runs the security news site Bleeping Computer, reports that he made contact with "The operators of the Maze, DoppelPaymer, Ryuk, Sodinokibi/REvil, PwndLocker, and Ako Ransomware infections to ask if they would continue targeting health and medical organizations during the outbreak."
Google has announced the rollout of two new non-negotiable security features for Android users who have also enrolled in the company's Advanced Protection Program. On Wednesday, Google said that the company is now automatically turning Google Play Protect on for all devices with a Google Account enrolled in Advanced Protection and will require that it remain enabled.
Obscured by a long list of Microsoft patches and some fuss about a missing SMB fix, the answer is Adobe, which normally times its update cycle to coincide with the OS giant's monthly schedule. It's mostly a practical convenience - admins and end-users get all the important client patches at once, which includes Adobe's ubiquitous Acrobat and Reader software.
Facebook is denying that a recent content moderation glitch has anything to do with workforce issues, but it's also saying that automated systems are to blame for being overzealous in stamping out misinformation. On Monday, Facebook had put out an industry statement saying that it was joining Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Reddit, Twitter, and YouTube to scrub misinformation contained in posts about COVID-19.
If each of your security controls is a segment of your overall security strategy, you can't have one segment be an extremely weak one. The security solutions in your environment, the intelligence sources at your disposal, the infrastructure your company utilizes is going to be constantly changing, and a lot of times those decisions are not made by the CISO. Acquisitions, mergers, and partnerships are driven by the business, which will force the security team to adapt and integrate with a whole variety of security apparatus, and you need to be leveraging a platform that supports the largest variety of integration points but also the most diverse set of use cases because what you need today is not what you'll need tomorrow.
Can you tell me what is Cymatic's approach to web security and what differentiates you in the marketplace? We built a web application defense platform that's able to identify, basically calculate risk, and also really understand users from inside of the web application.
As the world comes to grips with the coronavirus pandemic, the situation has proven to be a blessing in disguise for threat actors, who've taken advantage of the opportunity to target victims with scams or malware campaigns. Now, according to a new report published by Check Point Research today and shared with The Hacker News, hackers are exploiting the COVID-19 outbreak to spread their own infections, including registering malicious Coronavirus-related domains and selling discounted off-the-shelf malware in the dark web.
As the world comes to grips with the coronavirus pandemic, the situation has proven to be a blessing in disguise for threat actors, who've taken advantage of the opportunity to target victims with scams or malware campaigns. Now, according to a new report published by Check Point Research today and shared with The Hacker News, hackers are exploiting the COVID-19 outbreak to spread their own infections, including registering malicious Coronavirus-related domains and selling discounted off-the-shelf malware in the dark web.