CSO Magazine

MARCH 16, 2022

SIEM software (pronounced ‘sim’; the ‘e’ is silent) collects and aggregates log and event data generated throughout the organization’s technology infrastructure, from host systems and applications to network and security devices such as firewalls and antivirus filters.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 15, 2022

“This case involves patented technologies that helped to revolutionize, and have become widely adopted in, the fields of malware detection, network security, and endpoint protection” and are used in security products such as Webroot SecureAnywhere AntiVirus, it continued. To read this article in full, please click here

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Here’s how the malware execution sequence would appear to a Windows user: The “Windows NT is not supported” message shown in the screenshot, however, is a false error thrown by the malware in an attempt to fool both antivirus products and the end-user. The malware dropped by lib2.exe explains Castro.

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CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2021

When Anton Chuvakin, then a Gartner Analyst, first coined the term endpoint detection and response (EDR) in 2013, most enterprises raced to replace antivirus (AV) with EDR.

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Antivirus 94

CSO Magazine

JUNE 2, 2023

In a separate report, Russian antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab said that several dozen of its senior employees and upper management were targeted as part of the operation, although unlike the FSB, the company did not attribute the attack to any specific state.

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 1, 2021

To date, combatting it involves upgrading antivirus and endpoint detection and response (EDR) software, while educating users not to click on “suspicious” attachments or links. Phishing has been around for 20 years, and it will continue as long as there is money to be made. We’ve been failing miserably.

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CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Microsoft quickly released an Exchange On-premises Mitigation Tool (EOMT) along with automatic mitigation included in Microsoft Defender Antivirus and System Center endpoint protection. The recent zero-day attacks on Exchange showed that many firms weren’t up to date in patching and Microsoft realized that many were behind in updating.

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CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The response is often to throw scanning engines and antivirus products at workstations, but all that does is delay boot up times and logging into the network. Instead of a somewhat nice and tidy domain tucked behind a series of firewalls and defenses, it is now connected to the same network as Alexa devices.

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CSO Magazine

MAY 18, 2022

I've never felt a need for a Linux antivirus program. I've been running the Linux desktop since the great desktop debate was between C Shell and Bash. But, that's not to say that I thought I could get away without Linux desktop or server security. Far from it!

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 30, 2022

We hope that our antivirus or endpoint protection software alerts us to problems. I remember the infamous email-based computer worm , the “ILOVEYOU virus,” that infected fellow IT friends back in 2000. Those victims should have known better than to click on an email that said ILOVEYOU, but they did and had to clean up afterwards.

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CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2022

“The most notable tool delivered by the attackers was a user-mode module that gained the ability to read and write kernel memory due to the CVE-2021-21551 vulnerability in a legitimate Dell driver,” security researchers from antivirus firm ESET said in a recent report. This is the first ever recorded abuse of this vulnerability in the wild.

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Antivirus Manufacturing Software 81

CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Sure Click Enterprise’s isolation approach far exceeds the capabilities of detection and blocking technologies such as antivirus, whitelisting, web gateways, and sandboxes.

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Antivirus Technology 68

CSO Magazine

JULY 6, 2022

Rather than installing malicious software on your network that antivirus software might flag, attackers use the code already there to launch attacks. Living off the land is not the title of a gardening book. It’s the goal of attackers going after your network.

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2022

The targets included industrial plants, design bureaus, research institutes, and government ministries, agencies, and departments, according to researchers from antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab, which investigated the attack campaign.

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Antivirus Government 73

CSO Magazine

JULY 20, 2022

I’ve seen many a phishing lure come in via web links, pretend cloud services, and other techniques that bypass traditional antivirus and file filtering. Because many of these attacks come via email, but not necessarily as email attachments, evaluate whether your phishing protection and user education are appropriate.

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Antivirus Phishing Education 72

CSO Magazine

MAY 18, 2022

At $3 per user per month, it takes the place of your traditional antivirus solution that you may have deployed in your office. Defender for Business makes it easier to deploy EDR in a reasonable fashion and in an affordable package. You can onboard workstations using a script, Intune or Group Policy.

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Antivirus 68

CSO Magazine

JUNE 14, 2022

Those of you working in security in the early 2000s may remember installing independent firewall and antivirus software on every endpoint. One of those was the insistence on best-of-breed security technologies. Best-of-breed technologies were then combined as part of another time-honored principle—defense-in-depth.

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Firewall Antivirus Technology Software 68

CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

As these tools are not malicious, they’re not likely to be flagged by traditional antivirus products,” the researchers wrote. To read this article in full, please click here

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Phishing Malware Social Engineering Retail 76

SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

For example, would you use antivirus alone as an endpoint security solution? While it is a well-established business practice to consolidate vendors, it is not a good security best practice to rely on one technology to mitigate the threats from an attack vector. The answer is definitely not.

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SC Magazine

MAY 3, 2021

said Dan Meacham, vice president of global security and corporate operations and CSO/CISO at film production company Legendary Entertainment. For instance, Stebila praised one of its past antivirus providers for being was to work “within the limitations of our yearly fiscal CAPEX vs OPEX budget.”.

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Software Engineering Media CISO 59

eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Russian software engineer Eugene Kaspersky’s frustration with the malware of the 80s and 90s led to the founding of antivirus and cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky Lab. Graham Cluley started as a videogame developer and antivirus programmer three decades ago before serving in senior roles at Sophos and McAfee.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 13, 2019

The work duties call for them to open and deal with business documents, “and at the same time the CSO actually may be directing them to think twice before they open any document,” Grafi says. “So, Employees today receive mixed messages. So, the challenge becomes productivity versus security.”. Effective attacks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Increasingly, traditional sandboxing and antivirus software aren’t enough. Wes Spencer, VP, External CSO, ConnectWise. As insider threats have increased by 47% this year, users may also think they are communicating with a colleague when the account has actually been taken over by an adversary. Let’s admit it.

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