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Join us for Sophos' Upcoming Event: Today’s Threat Landscape – How to Stay Safe

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Michelle Drolet

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How to Expose Cyber-Attacks and Combat Threats

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Michelle Drolet

Published by Michele Drolet, CEO of Towerwall Proper analysis will flag suspicious behavior and allow the IT department to assess the threat and take action to close it down Cybercriminals are employing more sophisticated techniques all the time and far too many companies and organizations still don't have the protection they really need to safeguard their systems. The prevalence of targeted attacks and advanced persistent threats (APTs) is disturbing. The risk is that security is breached,false

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Towerwall's Michelle Drolet on Fox 25 to Present MassBay Scholarship Foundation with $10,000 Donation

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Michelle Drolet

Boston News, Weather, Sports | FOX 25 | MyFoxBoston We are delighted to provide $10,000 to the MassBay Scholarship Foundation so the next generation can become cyber security experts. To learn more about the MassBay Foundation and the Information Security Summit Scholarship, click here.

How Can you Expose Targeted Attacks and Combat APTs?

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Michelle Drolet

Cybercriminals are employing more sophisticated techniques all the time and far too many companies and organizations still don’t have the protection they really need to safeguard their systems. The prevalence of targeted attacks and advanced persistent threats (APTs) is disturbing. The risk is that security is breached, typically through manipulation of employees using a technique such as spear phishing, and existing security systems are unable to detect the attack. Data can be harvested forfalse

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Critical fixes for Office, Outlook and IE in September Patch Tuesday

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Michelle Drolet

Windows admins will have their hands full with the large number of security updates in this month's Patch Tuesday. There are fixes for 47 vulnerabilities in 13 bulletins for September's Patch Tuesday cycle. Four of this month's bulletins are critical. This year's total for bulletins is up to 79, a considerable increase from 62 at the same time last year. One critical bulletin this month addresses a remote code execution vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook, which can be exploited if users openfalse

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Phone 5S Phishing Mail Arrives in time for launch.

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Michelle Drolet

While millions of mobile users are anticipating the launch of the new iPhone (5S and 5C), cybercriminals are already making their move to distribute spam that promise to give away the said devices for free, in the guise of a contest. We saw samples of spammed messages that attempted to spoof an Apple Store email notification. The said message informs recipients that they won the latest iPhone 5S mobile phones and iPad. Figure 1. Fake Apple email To get these prizes, they are asked to go to afalse

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10 Things I Know About... Mobile Security

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Michelle Drolet

10. Malware Is On The Rise The threat of malware on mobile platforms is growing steadily as more cybercriminals target mobile devices in increasingly sophisticated ways.

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Read the EDA's Report on Malware Infections

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Michelle Drolet

Read the EDA's Report on Malware Infections - Malware Infections on EDA’s Systems Were Overstated and the Disruption of IT Operations Was Unwarranted Click here to read.

Four Steps to Respond & Recover from Sophisticated Security Attacks

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Michelle Drolet

Great information in SC Magazine’s latest whitepaper report, ‘Four steps to respond and recover from sophisticated security attacks’, it discusses the four proactive steps that you can – and should – take now to help keep your organization safe. Click here to view more details: http://bit.ly/131uu2J As we all know, cyber-attacks are becoming more sophisticated every year. At the same time, IT resources are moving outside the firewall and enterprises are distributing their applications and datafalse

New LinkedIn E-Mail Scam

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Michelle Drolet

Hi all, there is an e-mail scam doing the rounds. The message is an invite from some random person you won’t know with a link (how original). If you get such a message don’t use the link, check your LinkedIn account as if it’s a legit request it will be there waiting for approval. Even if it is legit, make sure you vet all invite requests carefully. I have had several dodgy requests from what I believe to be bogus profiles who are likely up to no good. LinkedIn is about the quality of yourfalse

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