Improve Your Security

[upnorth]

Quote : " Security Planner is a custom security advice tool from Citizen Lab. Answer a few questions, and it gives you a few simple things you can do to improve your security. It's not meant to be comprehensive, but instead to give people things they can actually do to immediately improve their security. I don't see it replacing any of the good security guides out there, but instead augmenting them.

The advice is peer reviewed, and the team behind Security Planner is committed to keeping it up to date.

Note: I am an advisor to this project. Bruce Schneier. "


Quote : " Most of us have probably read advice or tips from different information security awareness campaigns. Growing concern over ransomware and other malicious worms have more organizations mounting anti-spear phishing efforts around the office. In fact, one of the better-known groups in this space, the National Cyber Security Alliance, and its Stay Safe Online website, grew out of a cooperative effort by the private sector nearly a decade ago to counter spear phishing. Despite a number of other advocacy and research groups who have also created education or awareness campaigns for online and information safety, several flaws have limited the programs' impact. First, many of these programs about online safety aim toward such broad audiences that the advice becomes too voluminous to follow. Second, traditional security awareness campaigns are difficult to adjust as quickly as the most common threats change. And third, existing security awareness campaigns haven't benefited from the kind of broad, interdisciplinary research that's starting to make inroads into the cybersecurity debate.

That may change, however, with the launch of Security Planner, a simple-to-use guide featuring expert advice that's relevant to the way you work and play online. It's a project of the The Citizen Lab, an interdisciplinary research and policy group based at the University of Toronto. Citizen Lab has gained attention for its evidence-based research on topics such as cyberwarfare and use of commercial spyware by governments to target dissidents. "

Source : Security Planner: Why this new online safety advice tool looks promising

 

[Jacques33]

Interesting, thanks!
When originally discovered on November 22, 2017, the iGotYou crypto threat was in a sort of evaluation state and didn’t encrypt anything except the contents of the Test folder on its author’s C drive. Security analysts have gotten resourceful enough to spot malware in pre-propagation period, which is good news. The bad news is, things have changed ever since as the culprit has been seen in the wild and victims get their valuable files locked down in multiple different locations. These include hard disk partitions, removable drives and network drives. When this perpetrating program affects a file, it stains it with the .iGotYou extension, hence the name of the baddie.

 

[Jacques33]

There are blackmail viruses that stand out from the rest – ones like the professionally tailored and highly prevalent Cerber, Locky or CrySiS. On the other hand, there are mainstream ransom Trojans that cannot boast massive distribution but do cause a great deal of problems to those infected. The new iGotYou ransomware https://soft2secure.com/knowledgebase/igotyou-ransomware undoubtedly falls into the latter cluster.