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Windows 10 will soon shield important files from ransomware with new Controlled Folder Access feature – Digit

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Windows 10 will soon shield important files from ransomware with new Controlled Folder Access feature
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Microsoft is planning to add a new security feature to Windows 10 in the wake of recent global ransomware attacks such as Petya and WannaCry. The next Windows 10 Fall Creators update scheduled for September will add a new feature called Controlled …
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China ‘hacked’ South Korea to wreck Star Wars missile shield – The Register

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China 'hacked' South Korea to wreck Star Wars missile shield
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In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, FireEye's director of cyber-espionage analysis John Hultquist said his organization – which is bankrolled by the CIA – has detected attacks targeting the deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area …

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How to shield your company from cyber enforcement

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This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach.

A lot has changed in the world of cyber regulation. September 2015 saw the widely reported SEC administrative proceeding against RT Jones for violating the “Safeguard Rule” in failing to establish and implement written cyber protection policies. Next was Morgan Stanley. And this past March the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) brought a pre-emptive action against a company that hadn’t even had a breach.

At this stage, it’s safe to assume the list of regulators and their security requirements will continue to grow and fines and penalties will become more severe. In fact, just last week the New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) proposed new cyber guidelines for financial institutions.

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KrebsOnSecurity moves to Project Shield for protection against DDoS attack censorship

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Unless you are a bad guy intent upon nefarious schemes to exploit technology in order to make money, then you probably have a great amount of respect for security reporter Brian Krebs. The crimes, breaches and attacks he has exposed have been so stunning that it boggles the mind. If cyber thugs have a “most wanted” list, then Krebs is likely at, or very near, the top. Yet what kind of messed up world do we live in if criminals can exploit horribly insecure internet-of-things devices with such success that it can silence the voice of a journalist like Krebs?

He most recently ticked off allies of vDOS; Krebs wrote about the DDoS-for-hire company and the two teenagers allegedly behind it were arrested. Although it’s nothing new for his site, KrebsOnSecurity, to come under attack, like it did after his vDOS exposé, nearly two weeks later, Krebs’ site was hit “with the largest DDoS the internet has ever seen. 665 Gbps” (gigabits per second). Some of the POST request attacks included the string “freeapplej4ck,” referring to one of the alleged teenage owners of vDOS.

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