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Can You Trick Malware into Believing a Production System Is a Virtual Machine?

SecureWorld News

This question arises amidst the constant battle against threats posed by malware. By tricking the malware into identifying the environment improperly, security professionals could outsmart self-termination mechanisms utilized by certain strains. Malware employs complex and sophisticated techniques to detect virtualized environments.

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A series of patent lawsuits is challenging the history of malware detection

The Verge

Filed March 4th in the famously patentholder-friendly Western District of Texas court, the four lawsuits claim that techniques fundamental to modern malware detection are based on patented technology — and that the company’s competitors are infringing on intellectual property rights with their implementation of network security software.

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Microsoft warns of critical Windows DNS Server vulnerability that’s ‘wormable’

The Verge

Such a flaw could allow attackers to create special malware that remotely executes code on Windows servers and creates malicious DNS queries that could even eventually lead to a company’s infrastructure being breached. Windows DNS Server is a core networking component. a principal security program manager at Microsoft.

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What’s The Biggest Data Security Threat In Your Business? The Answer Might Surprise You

CTOvision

From digital espionage to terrifying malware to malicious or ignorant users, the notion that your servers are constantly being assailed by threats from all sides isn’t an unreasonable one to hold. You just need to answer a few questions: How large is my business, and how many devices do employees plug into my network? Complex malware.

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Black Hat USA 2021 Opens With Security Parallels To COVID Immunity

ForAllSecure

Moss, like a lot of us, said he has been thinking about comparisons of COVID with infosec. “The contagious disease spreads through some of the population, and some networks, and some systems are not maintained.” Today, you're not going to wake up the morning and cure memory corruption or off-by-one problems.”

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Ransomware 'Direct Threat' to Economy: Key Findings by U.S. Treasury

SecureWorld News

Ransomware analysis by Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. Data around the ransomware trends was analyzed by Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), a branch of the Treasury Department. FinCEN identified 68 ransomware variants reported in SAR data for transactions during the review period.

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- Can a City be Hacked to its Knees?

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

A City government does not hold the secrets to making a nuclear weapon in its digital vaults, nor do cities have active networks of foreign spies (with the possible exception of my friends in the Big Apple ) whose identity needs to be uncovered by foreign powers. Today I feel exactly the opposite. Cyberwar is real.

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