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| White Paper: Palo Alto Networks Exploit kits, which first became popular in 2006, are used to automate the exploitation of vulnerabilities on victims' machines, most commonly while users are browsing the web. Over the past decade they have become an extremely popular means for criminal groups to distribute mass malware or remote access tools (RAT), because they lower the barrier to entry for attackers and can enable opportunistic attacks at scale. Read More ▶ |
| Here's how the holiday season is heating up for hackers. Read More ▶ |
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| U.S. lawmakers are pushing for a government probe into whether Russia may have interfered with the presidential election by hacking high-profile political targets. Read More ▶ |
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| Last week's report by the nonpartisan Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity recommended training 100,000 new cybersecurity professionals and increasing federal R&D funding for cybersecurity by $4 billion over the next decade -- but that's not enough to address the current shortfall, experts say Read More ▶ |
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| A hacker in Turkey has been trying to encourage distributed denial-of-attacks by making it into a game, featuring points and prizes for attempting to shut down political websites. Read More ▶ |
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| Make sure your backup files really work -- test them! -- or else they will be no use to you in this situation. Read More ▶ |
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| U.S. and U.K. spy agencies have been monitoring in-flight mobile phone users for years, according to new revelations from the trove of documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. Read More ▶ |
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| Last week, Visa, MasterCard and American Expressed delayed the EMV migration deadline for gas stations from October 2017 to October 2020 -- but that doesn't mean that gas stations can now relax their EMV upgrade plans Read More ▶ |
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| White Paper: Palo Alto Networks Your network is more complex than ever before. Your employees are accessing any application they want, using work or personal devices. Oftentimes, these applications span both personal and work-related usage, but the business and security risks are often ignored. Prospective employees are asking about application usage policies before accepting a job. Read More ▶ |
| When it comes to managing indirect reports, there's no substitute for experience. Here’s how two project management veterans have found success. ▶ |
| Over time, as Windows 10 is patched repeatedly, installer files can become outdated or orphaned and occupy a lot of disk space. Two utilities can help with that. ▶ |
| This 49-page report features advice from IT executives at the U.S. Postal Service, Hunter Douglas, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Nationwide Insurance and more for using digital technologies to become more agile, more flexible and more profitable. Purchase the report here. ▶ |
