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How to Configure a Router to Use WPA2 in 7 Easy Steps

eSecurity Planet

If implemented and configured properly, WPA2 is stronger and more resistant to potential attacks than predecessor technologies like WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) and WPA. But in the meantime, WPA2 with a good firewall setting and antivirus software on your devices is pretty good security. If not, WPA2 will do for now.

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Sandboxing: Advanced Malware Analysis in 2021

eSecurity Planet

Antivirus protection isn’t enough to protect against today’s advanced threats. Malware isn’t going away and even advanced monitoring and antivirus software can’t always catch what a malicious program will do when executed. Antivirus software is notable for its ability to scan programs being transferred, downloaded, and stored.

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Purple Lambert, a new malware of CIA-linked Lambert APT group

Security Affairs

Experts from Kaspersky explained that in February 2019, multiple antivirus companies received a collection of malware samples, some of them cannot be associated with the activity of known APT groups. . Symantec believes Longhorn is a North American hacking group that has been active since at least 2011.

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Breach Exposes Users of Microleaves Proxy Service

Krebs on Security

” Microleaves has long been classified by antivirus companies as adware or as a “potentially unwanted program” (PUP), the euphemism that antivirus companies use to describe executable files that get installed with ambiguous consent at best, and are often part of a bundle of software tied to some “free” download.

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Mariposa Botnet Author, Darkcode Crime Forum Admin Arrested in Germany

Krebs on Security

Škorjanc and his hacker handle Iserdo were initially named in a Justice Department indictment from 2011 (PDF) along with two other men who allegedly wrote and sold the Mariposa botnet code. An advertisement for the ButterFly Bot. “TM passed this information on to Brian Krebs.”

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I’m joining Microsoft’s Threat Protection division to bring what’s needed to threat intelligence…

DoublePulsar

and we haven’t yet nailed how to implement and secure technology. I finished Skyrim in 2011 and haven’t recovered yet). an antivirus tool which a decade ago was the laughing point of the security industry, but now sits well regarded as a tool across millions of organisations and home PCs. Me, by the way… like, badly?—?I

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Mobile malware evolution 2020

SecureList

In 2020, Kaspersky mobile products and technologies detected: 5,683,694 malicious installation packages, 156,710 new mobile banking Trojans, 20,708 new mobile ransomware Trojans. Individuals who generate that many installation packages are obviously not worried about antivirus software. The year in figures. Trends of the year.

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