Computer Safety & News

https://www.pcmag.com/news/seagate-confirms-worlds-largest-hard-disk-drive-on-track-for-december Seagate’s first hard drives with heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) are set to arrive later this year.  According to the company’s product roadmap, the first HAMR drives on order will include the world’s largest hard disk drive capacity at 20TB, TechRadar Pro reports, and we can expect to see it in December. While we were previously made aware that […]

From the Microsoft Ignite 2020 conference, below are u-tube videos capturing the keynote and conference highlights

Microsoft is centering on naming conventions of “Microsoft Defender” for it’s suite of enterprise protection products: https://redmondmag.com/articles/2020/09/28/microsoft-rebrands-enterprise-security-solutions.aspx Security Product Name Changes — Here are those new enterprise security product name changes, per an announcement by Rob Lefferts, corporate vice president for Microsoft 365 security: Microsoft 365 Defender (previously Microsoft Threat Protection). Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (previously Microsoft […]

CISA has issued special awareness regarding increased activity by this stealth malware which captures USER-ID & PSWD information as user keys this information https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/alerts/aa20-266a LokiBot—also known as Lokibot, Loki PWS, and Loki-bot—employs Trojan malware to steal sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, cryptocurrency wallets, and other credentials. The malware steals credentials through the use of […]

This Harvard Business Review article focuses on how to maintain & build rapport while wearing a MASK during the virus pandemic .. and to add one more recommendation is to dress well for video conferences, with a professional setting, and that mask also looks professional as possibly solid color  https://hbr.org/2020/09/how-to-build-rapport-while-wearing-a-mask?ab=hero-subleft-1 Nonverbal communication in the workplace […]

SANS ISC shares an in-depth list of Best Security Practices for Azure cloud based Microsoft Exchange 365 protection https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Securing+Exchange+Online+Guest+Diary/26600/ The shared security model adopted by most cloud service shifts a portion of securing data to the customer. Microsoft is no different in this respect, and they have published their security support matrix here:https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/security/fundamentals/shared-responsibility. In this […]

A new release of this key network tracing & monitoring tool has been released to patch a security vulnerability: https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Wireshark+327+Released/26604/ Wireshark version 3.2.7 was released.  It has vulnerability and bug fixes.   One of the vulnerabilities (CVE-2020-25862) can be abused to cause a crash in the TCP dissector.