What's Lurking Out There?! Viruses, Malware, Ransomware??
I am just baffled at some of the viruses and ransomware I came to know about recently, thanks to spiceworks! such as the Cryptolocker. What else do you many of IT professionals come across that are...
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heh. The really hard ones are those we haven't come across yet! And they multiply endlessly.
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We got hit with WORM_VOBFUS and that felt like the end of the world. Cryptolocker makes that look tame.... *cringes*.....
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Still seeing things like Zeus banking trojan compromising company bank accounts (stealing credentials etc). It recently got a shot in the arm with a new propagation technique that leverages Facebook....
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There are known knowns; there are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns; that is to say, there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns – there...
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I still run into variants of the Zeroaccess Trojan on a fairly regular basis, even on AV protected machines. While not hard to remove, it often breaks Windows updates and deletes Windows services,...
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I'm seeing more people looking beyond traditional AV. Assume the machine is or soon will be compromised. If that's the case how do you immunize data from coming to harm? It's not always possible, but...
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Ramesh (Authentic8) wrote: I'm seeing more people looking beyond traditional AV. Assume the machine is or soon will be compromised. If that's the case how do you immunize data from coming to harm?...
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Ramesh (Authentic8) wrote: it seems like we need to move beyond an endpoint-centric point of view. You've got it right there. I've written the odd article or two about this very thing. "Trusted...
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GUIn00b wrote: Of all the national reports, news media frenzies, etc. of all of the notorious worms/viruses/trojans/etc., how many of them were NOT targeting Microsoft technology? -.^ Yep it's a good...
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Conrad (AlienVault) wrote: because endpoints were NEVER meant to be trusted. Exactly. We started our product development with this as the foundational assumption and built from there.
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Wow- there is alot for me to learn. With Spiceworks being around- it should be easy.
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Ramesh (Authentic8) wrote: GUIn00b wrote: Of all the national reports, news media frenzies, etc. of all of the notorious worms/viruses/trojans/etc., how many of them were NOT targeting Microsoft...
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GUIn00b wrote: Ramesh (Authentic8) wrote: GUIn00b wrote: I think security is an on-going battle no matter what. Can you think of any major risks to having such a large share of the market on a single...
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Ramesh (Authentic8) wrote: In this scenario, Yeah, every scenario warrants its own evaluation. And yes, there are browser exploits that could steal a bank account username and what have you. There's...
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And the vector through which the device most likely gets owned is the browser.
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You need a multi-layer approach to avoid these things. My opinion is that ANY company that is not scanning for Viruses at their gateway is acting irresponsibly at this point. It isn't expensive to do...
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