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Antivirus software is critical to ensure information security of organizational networks and resources. By establishing an antivirus policy, organizations can quickly identify and address malware and virus threats, as well as detect and appropriately respond to incidents.

The U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency has added three security vulnerabilities to its 'Known Exploited Vulnerabilities' catalog, one impacting Google Chrome and two affecting some D-Link routers. Two days after disclosing CVE-2024-4761 Google announced that another vulnerability in Chrome's V8 engine has been exploited in the wild, but CISA has yet to add it to the KEV catalog.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has charged two arrested Chinese nationals for allegedly orchestrating a pig butchering scam that laundered at least $73 million from victims through shell...

How a GRC consultant passed the CISSP exam in six weeksAsk any IT security professional which certification they would consider to be the "Gold standard" in terms of prestige, credibility, or difficulty, and almost invariably they will answer: the CISSP. BLint: Open-source tool to check the security properties of your executablesBLint is a Binary Linter designed to evaluate your executables' security properties and capabilities, utilizing LIEF for its operations. OWASP dep-scan: Open-source security and risk audit toolOWASP dep-scan is an open-source security and risk assessment tool that leverages information on vulnerabilities, advisories, and licensing restrictions for project dependencies.

The threat actors behind the Windows-based Grandoreiro banking trojan have returned in a global campaign since March 2024 following a law enforcement takedown in January. The large-scale phishing...

A ransomware operation targets Windows system administrators by taking out Google ads to promote fake download sites for Putty and WinSCP. WinSCP and Putty are popular Windows utilities, with WinSCP being an SFTP client and FTP client and Putty an SSH client. System administrators commonly have higher privileges on a Windows network, making them valuable targets for threat actors who want to quickly spread through a network, steal data, and gain access to a network's domain controller to deploy ransomware.

Concerns about the privacy of library reading material date back to the early 20th century, explained Dorothea Salo, academic librarian and library-school instructor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, to The Register. Library privacy became national news in 2005 when George Christian, then executive director of Library Connection, a Connecticut library consortium, received a National Security Letter from the FBI. The Feds, under the US Patriot Act, demanded library patron information without a warrant and imposed a lifetime gag order that forbade disclosure of the NSL. Christian and three colleagues, who became known as the Connecticut Four, refused to comply and a district court eventually found the gag order unconstitutional, prompting the government to drop its demand.

The banking trojan "Grandoreiro" is spreading in a large-scale phishing campaign in over 60 countries, targeting customer accounts of roughly 1,500 banks. In January 2024, an international law enforcement operation involving Brazil, Spain, Interpol, ESET, and Caixa Bank announced the disruption of the malware operation, which had been targeting Spanish-speaking countries since 2017 and caused $120 million in losses.

In January 2024, an international law enforcement operation involving Brazil, Spain, Interpol, ESET, and Caixa Bank announced the disruption of the malware operation, which had been targeting Spanish-speaking countries since 2017 and caused $120 million in losses. IBM X-Force noticed several new features and significant updates in the latest variant of the Grandoreiro banking trojan, making it a more evasive and effective threat.

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