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Antivirus Testing – VIPRE for your Home and Business

People often wonder, “What’s the best antivirus?” A lot of vendors will claim that their product is the best in the industry. The industry’s dirty secret is that much like a fighting game, there are tiers. If y...

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AA20-304A: Iranian Advanced Persistent Threat Actor Identified Obtaining Voter Registration Data

Original release date: October 30, 2020 Summary This advisory uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK®) version 7 framework. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise version 7 ...

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AA20-302A: Ransomware Activity Targeting the Healthcare and Public Health Sector

Original release date: October 28, 2020 | Last revised: October 29, 2020 Summary This advisory uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK®) version 7 framework. See the ATT...

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AA20-301A: North Korean Advanced Persistent Threat Focus: Kimsuky

Original release date: October 27, 2020 Summary This advisory uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK®) version 7 framework. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise version 7 ...

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Multi-Layered Protection: How to Secure Every Threat Vector

The notorious financial entrepreneur William Francis Sutton Jr. (aka Willie Sutton) is famously credited with explaining his penchant for robbing banks by simply replying, “Because that’s where the money is.” T...

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AA20-296B: Iranian Advanced Persistent Threat Actors Threaten Election-Related Systems

Original release date: October 22, 2020 Summary The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are warning that Iranian advanced persistent threat (APT...

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AA20-296A: Russian State-Sponsored Advanced Persistent Threat Actor Compromises U.S. Government Targets

Original release date: October 22, 2020 Summary This joint cybersecurity advisory uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK®) framework. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise ...

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The Formation and Development of Ransomware Operations

Guest Author: David Balaban. Extortion went cyber with the emergence of ransomware in 2006. The Archiveus Trojan broke new ground by leveraging asymmetric cryptography to lock down files in a victim’s “My Docu...

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Email Security: How to Secure Your #1 Threat Vector

People who triple-padlock their doors while leaving their windows open are ripe for burglary (and mockery), but ridiculing those folks is plainly hypocritical when so many businesses invest vast sums in endpoin...

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Endpoint Security: How to Get More Protection with Less Aggravation

To say the year 2020 has seen the world become a more chaotic place must rate as one of history’s greatest understatements. If radioactive fire-breathing lizards suddenly began plummeting from the sky, it’s a s...