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Email-based attacks exploit unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft Word

11

Apr

2017

Attackers have been exploiting an unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft Word for the past few months to compromise computers and infect them with malware.
The first report about the attacks came Friday from antivirus vendor McAfee after the company’s researchers analyzed some suspicious Word files spotted a day earlier.

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Antivirus headaches that compromise browser security

07

Apr

2017

MIAMI — Google is one company that lives and dies in the web, so for many reasons, they need to care — a lot — about browser security. That was the focus of engineering lead for Chrome Security at Google, Justin Schuh’s keynote speech at this year’s Infiltrate 2017 conference. There are three main reasons why Google needs to care.

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Report: 30% of malware is zero-day, missed by legacy antivirus

06

Apr

2017

“We’re gathering threat data from hundreds of thousands of customers and network security appliances,” said Corey Nachreiner, CTO at WatchGuard Technologies. “We have different types of malware detection services, including a signature and heuristic-based gateway antivirus. What we found was that 30 percent of the malware would have been missed by the signature-based antiviruses.”

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