CTOvision

OCTOBER 3, 2013

DHS will expand cybersecurity intern program - “A U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) summer internship program for community college students focusing on cybersecurity was so successful, the department plans to ramp it up.” There are also many web services only available via IE (ugh). Via ComputerWorld, more here.

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Sean Daniel

NOVEMBER 27, 2014

I wanted to write something up on how you can self heal your Windows 8 PC (although most of this also works for Windows 7), or at least get you started in the right direction. These are terrible, and programs like Windows Defender , built right into Windows, if updated, will protect you against any of these.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Many of us in the community, myself included, have long said that anti-virus is dead and even a senior VP at Symantec has now admitted such. A file-less intrusion is one where intruders leverages programs already on the host (e.g., browsers, Office applications, and Windows utilities) to achieve their objectives.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2022

Instead of just targeting zero days in the Windows operating system- which it did -- it then infected Siemens Step7 systems, causing the fast-spinning centrifuges to tear themselves apart. Here’s Liam O'Murchu of Symantec on 60 Minutes : Wallace/ O'Murchu: i s one was a very large operation. Intelligence Agency? Essentially, yes.

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Galido

MAY 10, 2016

While previous malware programs may have caused secondary physical problems, Stuxnet was unique in that it targeted software that controls industrial systems. Instead of revealing the heartfelt confession of a secret admirer, as perhaps readers had hoped, the file unleashed a malicious program that overwrote the users’ image files.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 30, 2022

And I remember calling Symantec and reporting a serious bug in an early version of their password manager. ” But when we switched out a programming language from Python three to C sharp, we found out that that C sharp notebook actually runs us with privileges, not the local privilege Cosmos user.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 6, 2022

Vamosi: Years ago, someone at Symantec told me that more and more malware was written by 9-5 criminal hackers, working monday to friday. Hypponen: It's not the same amount of reward the Reward for Justice program is offering for terrorists so US government is taking cyber criminals know as seriously as a threat as they take terrorism.

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