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Why Your Customers Need Modern UTM
The days of feeling secure by simply performing packet inspection at your network edge are long past. These SPI (stateful packet inspection) devices or firewalls were the first generation of network security that many of us first experienced in the ...
Voice from the Grave: High Number of Windows XP Users Were Just Unaware [Windows IT Pro]
http://windowsitpro.com/windows-xp/voice-grave-high-number-windows-xp-users-were-just-unaware
Microsoft drops Windows XP Support [CNN]
http://money.cnn.com/2014/04/08/technology/security/windows-xp
Word Vulnerability Under Active Attack Says Microsoft [Ars Technica]
Microsoft said yesterday (3/24/14), that users of Word 2010 (and to some extent, other versions) are under active attack "in the wild" (that is, in real life). There is a temporary "fix" available, see content of the linked article for ...
Meet Mask, possibly the most sophisticated malware campaign ever seen [Ars Technica]
Attackers used phishing and zero-days to infect Windows, Mac, and Linux users. by Dan Goodin - Feb 10 2014, 2:33pm MST Calling it the most sophisticated malware-driven espionage campaign ever discovered, researchers said they have uncovered an attack dating back ...
What Happened When One Man Pinged the Whole Internet [MIT Technology Review]
You probably haven’t heard of HD Moore, but up to a few weeks ago every Internet device in the world, perhaps including some in your own home, was contacted roughly three times a day by a stack of computers that ...
Washington Hospital Hit By $1.03 Million Cyberheist [Krebs on Security]
Organized hackers in Ukraine and Russia stole more than $1 million from a public hospital in Washington state earlier this month. The costly cyberheist was carried out with the help of nearly 100 different accomplices in the United States who ...
Hackers Empty $900K Bank Account [Bankrate]
In itself, a distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attack on a bank's website is little more than costly hooliganism. It essentially consists of hackers ordering a bunch of infected computers to "click" on a bank's website until it's too ...
Zero-day PDF exploit affects Adobe Reader 11 and earlier versions, researchers say [Computerworld]
IDG News Service - Researchers from security firm FireEye claim that attackers are actively using a remote code execution exploit that works against the latest versions of Adobe Reader 9, 10 and 11. Read The Full Article
