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MY TAKE: What NortonLifeLock’s $8 billion buyout of Avast portends for consumer security

The Last Watchdog

This deal reads like to the epilogue to a book titled The First 20 Years of the Supremely Lucrative Antivirus Market. Way back in 1990, Symantec acquired Norton Utilities and made Norton the heart of its antivirus subscription offering. Related: The coming of ubiquitous passwordless access.

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Security Roundup August 2023

BH Consulting

The agency’s ninth Internet Organised Crime Assessment (IOCTA) 2023 report gives a law enforcement perspective on current cybercrime techniques. Her book, “The Privacy Leader Compass” is available to pre-order from 1 November. Its findings are valuable for security professionals too.

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Wannacry, the hybrid malware that brought the world to its knees

Security Affairs

The infection chain was divided into four stages : The malware was installed through a dropper, a program executed by opening an attachment to a deceptive e-mail, probably a fake pdf or doc file, or executed directly from the Internet, without user interaction, exploiting the exploit described in the point 4.

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What do Cyber Threat Actors do with your information?

Zigrin Security

Educate yourself and your employees about phishing techniques, social engineering, and the importance of maintaining strong security measures. Implement Firewalls and Antivirus Software Firewalls act as a barrier between your internal network and the external internet, monitoring and blocking unauthorized access.

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7 Cyber Security Courses Online For Everybody

Spinone

To protect personal information and feel safe while surfing the internet; 2. Security Awareness Training from Advisera Advisera offers lots of tools like books, courses, and guidelines for those who want to know more about compliance standards and become security-aware. The list will save your time and make a choice easier.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Surviving Stalkerware

ForAllSecure

I should also say that this when it does happen and again it's extremely, extremely rare when it does happen, It almost always involves some kind of social engineering. Vamosi: That's a gray area with the Internet of Things. Vamosi: What about the parents who just want to monitor their children's internet use.

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ChatGPT: Cybersecurity friend or foe?

Malwarebytes

For example, Malwarebytes asked ChatGPT to write the opening paragraph of a novel about an antiquated antivirus program that relies on signature-based detection to stop new and emerging threats. Here's what the program came back with: “The antivirus program blinked to life, its archaic interface flickering on the outdated CRT monitor.