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Interesting article regarding the importance of home network security as a factor in overall corporate network security in the age of work from home and remote access

NSA Releases New Best Practices for Securing Home Networks Even in the comfort of your own home, poor network security can open doors to a cyber criminal, leading to a company-wide data breach.

Stay vigilant and aware of emerging threats and changing tactics.

Chinese Hackers Deploy Fake News Site To Infect Government, Energy Targets The threat actors would frequently pose as an employee of the fictional media publication “Australian Morning News” and provide a URL to their malicious domain. If a target clicked the URL, they’d be sent to the fake news site and be served up the ScanBox malware.

ACS stands with Ukraine.

This mostly affects home routers

https://www.technewsworld.com/story/85356.html?rss=1

The following routers can be infected:

Linksys E1200
Linksys E2500
Linksys WRVS4400N
Mikrotik RouterOS for Cloud Core Routers: Versions 1016, 1036, and 1072
Netgear DGN2200
Netgear R6400
Netgear R7000
Netgear R8000
Netgear WNR1000
Netgear WNR2000
QNAP TS251
QNAP TS439 Pro
Other QNAP NAS devices running QTS software
TP-Link R600VPN

FBI Declaws Russian Fancy Bear Botnet The FBI has disrupted a network of half a million routers compromised by the group of Russian hackers believed to have penetrated the DNC and the Hillary Clinton campaign during the 2016 elections, according to reports. The hacker group, known as "Fancy Bear," has been using a malware program called...

Something to be aware of as it is a real threat.

Serious flaw in WPA2 protocol lets attackers intercept passwords and much more KRACK attack is especially bad news for Android and Linux users.

Interesting article about malware and ransomware

What Common Misconceptions Do People Have About Malware? What common misconceptions do most people have about malware/ransomware? This question was originally answered on Quora by IBM Security.

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http://www.securityweek.com/alarming-numbers-behind-business-email-compromise-scams

The Alarming Numbers Behind Business Email Compromise Scams | SecurityWeek.Com Business email compromise (BEC) attacks have resulted in $2.3 billion being stolen from 17,642 victims in at least 79 countries from 2013 to 2015.

Be very careful what you open and what you click on

http://www.zdnet.com/article/new-phishing-attack-knows-your-address-and-brings-ransomware/?tag=nl.e589&s_cid=e589&ttag=e589&ftag=TREc64629f

Meet the new ransomware that knows where you live | ZDNet The carefully-crafted and user-specific emails contains a link that tries to trick the user into installing a new kind of malware.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/3004441/microsoft-windows/microsoft-surreptitiously-reissues-botched-patch-kb-3097877-for-windows-7.html

Microsoft surreptitiously reissues botched patch KB 3097877 for Windows 7 The new, fixed patch has the same KB number as the old, bad patch that crashed Outlook and busted network logon