How To Do A Virus Scan
Whether you think you might have a virus on your computer or devices, or just want to keep them running smoothly, it’s easy to do a virus scan. How you perform the virus scan depends on the software you have, so we’ll go through a few options below. But first, ...
Fortnite: Why Kids Love It and What Parents Need to Know
Fortnite: Battle Royale is the hottest video game for kids right now. More than 125 million people have downloaded the game and it’s estimated that 3.4 million play it monthly. But while the last-man-standing battle game is a blast to play, it also has parents asking a lot of ...
A segurança da informação está em alerta vermelho
Quando ocorreu o ataque do WannaCry, tive interesse em iniciar uma investigação para saber a sua origem e como o ataque foi desenvolvido. O que encontrei foi que a exploração usada remonta os vazamentos de informações de um grupo hacker que aconteceram no ano passado e neste ano. Foram cinco ...
La seguridad de la información en alerta roja
Cuando tuvo lugar el ataque de WannaCry, me interesé en iniciar una investigación acerca de su origen y de cómo se desarrolló el ataque. Encontré que la explotación usada remonta a las fugas de información de un grupo hacker que sucedieron el año pasado y este año. Los hackers llevaron ...
DNSMessenger Revitalizes Fileless Malware, Uses Queries to Execute Attacks
This blog was written by Brett Kelsey. In early March, Cisco Systems’ Talos security team issued a detailed report on a newly discovered attack called DNSMessenger. The attack makes a skillful use of Windows PowerShell, DNS TXT and Microsoft Word macros to silently infect a victim’s computer without creating files. ...
Best practices for preventing Dridex infections
Mitigating the Dridex threat at multiple levels like file, registry, url and ip address can be achieved at various layers of McAfee security products. Browse the product guidelines available here (click Knowledge Center, and select Product Documentation from the Support Content list) to mitigate the threats based on the behavior described ...
Dridex Best Practices
Limiter et protéger votre entreprise contre les attaques de type Dridex peut se faire à différents niveaux d’interception : Fichiers, Registre, URL et IP, et celà à travers plusieurs technologies des gammes de produits McAfee. La protection contre ce type de codes malveillants extrêment volatile nécessite une approche multi niveaux et une ...
How Hackers Use Popular Shows to Infect Your Devices
If there’s one reasonable measurement of how popular a television series has become, it’s how often it’s illegally downloaded online. And for HBO’s hit series, Game of Thrones (GoT), episodes are stolen about as often as weddings are ruined in the series. That is to say: all of the time. ...
Product Coverage and Mitigation for CVE-2014-1761 (Microsoft Word)
On March 24, Microsoft released Security Advisory 2953095 for Microsoft Word. In-the-wild exploitation of this vulnerability has been observed across limited, targeted attacks. The flaw is a memory-corruption vulnerability that can be invoked when parsing specially crafted RTF files or data. Successful exploitation can give an attacker the ability to ...
