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Bidding Open on DHS’ $6B Security Hub, House report stresses sharing

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” “The suppliers will provide a centralized way for government agencies to procure hardware, software and consulting services for continuous monitoring and real-time threat detection.” ” Symantec believes that they have found at least 1200 malicious apps in the last seven months. Via Net Security, more here.

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Understanding the Security Risks of New Cloud Software

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Cloud computing provides businesses with quality solutions for their IT needs, as well as substantial cost savings over purchasing and maintaining their own hardware and software. The code they use is designed to escape detection by common anti-malware solutions and can lie dormant for days or weeks until an opportunity presents itself.

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Browser Isolation: The Missing Piece in Your Security Puzzle

SecureWorld News

Cyberattacks such as malware infiltration and vulnerability exploitation continue to make headlines, attacking companies of various sizes. This ensures that any potential malware will be completely localized and neutralized, never hitting the endpoint. Malvertising, where harmful code is inserted into legitimate ad networks.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Industrial Control Systems

ForAllSecure

They also had a piece of malware called killdisk position on the systems so that when the systems rebooted, it would kick off deleting all the files and deleting all the systems. It was a masterful piece of malware, carefully crafted to achieve a specific goal. When they did that. We have challenges for their skins also.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: The Fog of Cyber War

ForAllSecure

These are not groups of individual hackers sitting around the table late at night as it was in teh early days of malware writing. Hypponen: Alright, original sea change for monetizing malware was 2003. That's when we started seeing the cooperation between spammers and malware writers. I remember meeting Mikko in 2006.