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How to Build a Mobile-First Security Strategy

Ivanti

Not surprisingly, this has created an escalating vulnerability gap: more mobile devices means more mobile threats — and more blind spots as IT and security teams scramble to identify all those devices as they connect to their networks.

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Even North Korea has an antivirus program—but it’s used for spying

The Parallax

Researchers announced on May 1 that when they inspected the ingredients of the North Korean antivirus software for Windows computers, they found a mix of spyware and old code stolen from an antivirus vendor. Jaku is a known spyware-botnet combination, spread over BitTorrent.

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Technology Context From the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR)

CTOvision

They do what it takes to get in, including devising very sophisticated phishing schemes, creating spyware, placing code in RAM, leaving hacker tools, installing rootkits and continually adjusting/re-placing spyware. 92% of attacks studied in this research can be described and categorized by nine basic attack patterns of: Crimeware.

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Hear From A Customer: Making the Everywhere Workplace a Reality

Ivanti

Rico Roodenburg, Senior Workplace Management Engineer at Syntrophos, is responsible for designing physical and virtual workplaces. This prevents potentially dangerous executables containing viruses, spyware, and malware from contaminating the corporate network. Integration. Help was on the way. So that’s it?

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9 Types of Phishing and Ransomware Attacks—And How to Identify Them

Ivanti

is a social engineering tactic that uses deception to steal an end user’s credentials and other personal information. The most common phishing delivery tactics are email and attachments, text and multimedia messages, telephone and malicious advertisement networks. What is phishing? Learn more.

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A Brief History of the Internet’s Biggest BGP Incidents

Kentik

During the leak, a large portion of the internet’s traffic was redirected to AS7007, where it overwhelmed its networking equipment and was dropped. Large-scale origination leaks like these have become less frequent in recent years due to increases in the automation of router configuration in topologically-central networks.

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AI Applications in Cybersecurity with Real-Life Examples

Altexsoft

You can classify a binary file into categories like legitimate software, adware, ransomware, and spyware. For instance, you can develop profiles of every application inside your organization’s network by analyzing data from endpoints. Network security. The Impact of AI on Cybersecurity.