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NCSC warns of a surge in ransomware attacks on education institutions

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Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Recently Check Point researchers warned of a surge in the DDoS attacks against education institutions and the academic industry across the world.

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Microsoft’s case study: Emotet took down an entire network in just 8 days

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The virus avoided detection by antivirus solutions through regular updates from an attacker-controlled command-and-control (C2) infrastructure, and spread through the company’s systems, causing network outages and shutting down essential services for nearly a week.” Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – Emotet, malware).

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A new Zero-Day in Steam client impacts over 96 million Windows users

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“For example, disabling firewall and antivirus, rootkit installation, concealing of process-miner, theft any PC user’s private data — is just a small portion of what could be done. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” wrote Kravetz. Pierluigi Paganini.

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US govt agencies share details of the China-linked espionage malware Taidoor

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The CISA agency provides recommendations for system administrators and owners to enhance the level of security of their organizations: Maintain up-to-date antivirus signatures and engines. Enable a personal firewall on agency workstations, configured to deny unsolicited connection requests. Keep operating system patches up-to-date.

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US Govt agencies detail North Korea-linked HIDDEN COBRA malware

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CISA reports provide the following recommendations to users and administrators to strengthen the security posture of their organization’s systems: • Maintain up-to-date antivirus signatures and engines. Enable a personal firewall on agency workstations, configured to deny unsolicited connection requests. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Wireshark fixed three flaws that can crash it via malicious packet trace files

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Administrators are advised to run both firewall and antivirus applications to minimize the potential of inbound and outbound threats. Administrators can help protect affected systems from external attacks by using a solid firewall strategy. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Local privilege escalation bug fixed in CheckPoint ZoneAlarm

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Check Point released a security update to fix a vulnerability in its antivirus and firewall ZoneAlarm, the flaw could be exploited by attackers to escalate privileges on a system running it. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – ZoneAlarm, hacking).