Computer Safety & News

Microsoft has just released version 5.0 of the EMET security tool http://blogs.technet.com/b/msrc/archive/2014/07/31/general-availability-for-enhanced-mitigation-experience-toolkit-emet-5-0.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2014/07/30/announcing-emet-v5.aspx   First, the new Attack Surface Reduction (ASR) mitigation provides a mechanism to help block specific modules or plug-ins within an application, in certain conditions. For example, customers can now configure EMET to prevent their browser from loading Java plug-ins on external […]

Malwarebytes warns of phishing scam circulating that has an FB-like address that attempts to capture personal and even credit card information http://blog.malwarebytes.org/fraud-scam/2014/07/enter-details-here-to-enable-your-account/   Here’s one in-the-wild phishing campaign that we spotted homing in on users. Unfortunately, we couldn’t trace back the origin of this campaign; however, it’s highly likely that it started off as an […]

Widespread vulnerabilities discovered in client control software affecting smartphone platforms will be shared at next weeks conference http://www.darkreading.com/mobile/new-mobile-phone-0wnage-threat-discovered/d/d-id/1297686 Rogue cellular towers and phony base stations long have been a tradition of researchers at Black Hat and DEF CON, who test and demonstrate how they can intercept or manipulate cellphones, but a team of researchers has […]