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Bad Rabbit Update: Webroot Protects You
Webroot customers are protected from the Bad Rabbit malware that is affecting computers across Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, a few surrounding Eastern-European countries, as well as Japan.
Although Webroot customers are protected against Bad Rabbit, we recommend all users to maintain good cyber hygiene:
- Limit Admin account usage to only employees who need it.
- Don’t use easily guessable passwords.
- Update Windows – Ransomware authors take advantage of unpatched systems.
- Backup your data. Ransomware is crippled entirely if you have a backup copy of your data.
Read the full report.
Getting enterprise-scale cloud security right
As enterprises shift to hybrid cloud platforms it is easy for the security stance of the organization change without anyone really noticing.
Cloud strategy is not really very different from broader technology strategy. Keeping it secure means choosing the right partners, the right management tools and staying abreast of the evolving threat landscape.
Computer Business Review has tips for your Organization.
What happens when cybercriminals start to use machine learning?
Over the last few years, machine learning threat detection and defense company Darktrace has been something of a rising star in the cybersecurity industry. Its core unsupervised machine learning technology lend it the reputation of being one of the best in AI-enabled security.
Computerworld UK met with the director of cyber analysis at Darktrace, Andrew Tsonchev, at the IP Expo show in London's Docklands late last month to conduct an interview on the risks of. machine learning.
Check out the interview to learn the risks ahead.
Google Chrome May Add a Permission to Stop In-Browser Cryptocurrency Miners
Google Chrome engineers are considering adding a special browser permission that will thwart the rising trend of in-browser cryptocurrency miners.
"We cannot, realistically, fingerprint and block this pattern of computation," said Adam Langley, a Chrome engineering working on the Chromium project. "[w]eb sites will be able to outrun us by mutating the code. Blocking the loading of these scripts is thus something for extensions."
Get the full rundown from Bleeping Computer.
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FBI Asks Businesses to Share Details About DDoS Attacks
The FBI has made an appeal to organizations victimized by DDoS attacks to share details and characteristics of those incidents. Victims are also asked to share descriptions of losses incurred through the attack, and if a ransom was paid, to share the cryptocurrency wallet address or email address used for remittance.
The FBI encourages device owners and manufacturers to take a number of steps to secure their devices, including changing default usernames and passwords, isolating IoT devices onto a protected network, and keeping devices current with regard to patches and feature updates.
Read the full scoop from Threatpost.
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