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Announcing BrightCloud Cloud Service Intelligence

Cloud service and cloud application usage are both steadily rising throughout both enterprise and small-to-medium sized businesses. Organizations are increasingly turning to Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB) and other technology and security vendors to address cloud service risks, enforce security policies, and comply with regulations, even when cloud services are beyond their perimeter and out of their direct control. Webroot® BrightCloud Cloud Service Intelligence enables our partners to enforce data-centric security policies to prevent unwanted interactions with cloud services and associated applications by providing cloud application-specific threat intelligence. Through a suite of three components – Cloud Application Classification, Cloud Application Function, and Cloud Application Reputation – partners are able identify, classify, and control access based on the application’s classification, function, and reputation score. Benefits of BrightCloud Cloud Service Intelligence for

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‘Tis the Season – 12 Days of Gifts!12 Days of Gifts

Everyone loves gifts for the holidays. And Webroot and Carbonite customers are no different! We’re giving away a new gift every day during our special 12 Days of Gifts holiday promotion. All you have to do is follow, reply, share, retweet, like or sign up for a new account and you’ll be automatically entered. Here’s what we’re giving away: 12 Days Of Gifts: Day 1: Set of 4 figurines and group button Day 2: Notebook and pen Day 3: Tote bag and padfolio Day 4: Lunch bag Day 5: Glass cleaner and webcam cover Day 6: Socks Day 7: Power bank and PopSocket Day 8: Tech pouch Day 9: Sticky notes and fidget spinner pen Day 10: Hand sanitizer Day 11: Special edition gold MalwareWolf + button Day 12: Set of 4 figurines and group button To be eligible to enter all you have to do is: Sign up for a Webroot Community account. Leave a relevant comment about the subject matter to the “12 Days of Gifts” article (comment below) on the Community; or Leave a relevant comment about the subject matter to the

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OpenText Update on SolarWinds Orion Platform Sunburst Attack

Details OpenText™ has been following the SolarWinds Sunburst attack campaign closely since it was disclosed on December 13, 2020. To help reduce the risk to our customers, we continue to proactively review our systems to assess any potential impact of the issues described in the SolarWinds Security Advisory. As part of Webroot® BrightCloud® Threat Intelligence, we were able to ensure the reported indicators of compromise (IOCs) including URLs, IP addresses, and file hashes were marked as threats in our databases within 24 hours of being shared with the broader security community. This means our network of BrightCloud Threat Intelligence partners, our Webroot MSP partners and our Webroot end users are protected against these known malicious IOCs. Webroot Secure Anywhere is positioned to quarantine known malicious file hashes for removal. On December 14, Microsoft sinkholed the main C2 server used for communications for the threat campaign, "avsvmcloud[.]com". Following our sinkhole poli

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Webroot Named One of CRN's 25 Hottest Edge Security Companies

We are so proud to be named as one of CRN’s 25 Hottest Edge Security Companies! CRN recently named Webroot one of the hottest companies around. Find out how Webroot is securing the edge of tomorrow

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OpenText Announces $1M USD Donation to Fight Food Insecurity

COVID-19 has created significant challenges in communities around the world. Heading into the holiday season, we know that demand for food banks has increased, while at the same time it has been more challenging to hold food drives and campaigns. “Due to the pandemic, we’ve seen a 35% increase in need for food assistance — a need we project to continue into 2021 and beyond. In order to meet the increase in demand, we’ve had to purchase an enormous amount of food,” said Kim Da Silva, executive director of the Colorado-based Community Food Share. To play our part in addressing this issue, Webroot parent company OpenText will donate $1 million USD, roughly 4 million meals, to community foodbanks this Holiday Season. In lieu of holiday parties, each office has identified a local foodbank to receive these donations. “This donation will help us acquire, coordinate, and distribute safe and nutritious food to people in need in Waterloo Region and South Western Ontario, especially during a time

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Meet the Nastiest Malware of 2020Nastiest Malware

COVID-19 has absolutely dominated headlines this year, so it’s of no surprise that criminals have taken advantage of this to where most of the threat landscape this year is also heavily COVID-19 related. While this list may define payloads into different categories of malware, note that many of these bad actor groups contract work from others. This will allow each group to specialize on their respective payload and perfect it. This criminal underground community working together is what makes the threat landscape as nasty as ever. Ransomware continues to dominate headlines of breaches and the amount of devastation they cause. The average ransom payment is now over $175k and looks to clear $200k before the end of the year. Not only are most ransomware campaigns specifically targeting businesses over consumers, but some of them are now leaking your data if you decide not to pay the ransom. This is done so that if the victim tries to not pay the ransom and sweep it under the rug, they wil

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Webroot Recognized as One of Britain's Best

Great news! Webroot has been recognized as one of Britain’s Best by e-ChannelNews in the following categories: Best Channel Partner Support During the Pandemic Best IT Security Vendor Top 10 Cloud Vendors We couldn’t have done it without our valued Partners and supporters like you. So, thanks! We’re especially proud of this prestigious award because it’s the only industry award that’s 100% voted on by Britain’s channel partners. We want you to know that we value our partnership and appreciate the opportunity to help protect the environments you manage from numerous cyber threats. Thanks for your continued partnership. And for voting for us! 2020 Britain's 50 Best Managed IT Companies Awards Ceremony

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Cast Your Vote for Nastiest Malware 2020Nastiest Malware

Use the comment section below to vote for the nastiest malware of 2020 ! Go back to the Nastiest Malware Hub

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Nastiest Malware Q&A 2020Nastiest Malware

Welcome to this year’s Nastiest Malware Q&A with our security analyst, Tyler Moffitt. Today, he’ll be available to answer your questions on the latest malware featured in our latest Nastiest Malware lis t . For a quick refresher, you can check out our infographic too. To get answers to your questions, just ask away in the comments below. Go back to the Nastiest Malware Hub

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New Report – COVID-19 Clicks: How Phishing Capitalized on a Global CrisisCovid Clicks

3 in 10 workers worldwide have clicked a phishing link in the past year. In the US, it’s 1 in 3. With the massive increase in remote work due to COVID-19, there has also been an explosion in cybercriminal activity like phishing. Not only is phishing still prevalent, but it continues to be on the rise. In fact, more than 1 in 4 Americans has received a phishing email related to the pandemic. Why are people still clicking? For our new report, COVID-19 Clicks: How Phishing Capitalized on a Global Crisis , we surveyed 7,000 office workers in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia/New Zealand, Germany, France, Italy and Japan on their understanding of phishing, their email and click habits, and how their online lives have changed since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. We then worked with Dr. Prashanth Rajivan, assistant professor at the University of Washington and expert in human behavior and cybersecurity, to get his take on why phishing still works. According to Dr. Rajivan,

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11 Types of Phishing Attacks You Need to Know to Stay Safe

One of the more worrying findings of the 2020 Webroot Threat Report was a 640% year-over-year rise in the number of active phishing sites on the web. While these still make up a minor portion of all malicious sites, cybercriminals are clearly finding them profitable enough to be worth investing time and labor on. Phishing attacks are also diversifying considerably from what people often think of as the typical, email-based attack. To help our Community to be better identify the growing number of forms these attacks take, we’re beginning a series of posts describing them. We’ll begin with a typical phishing attack before elaborating on ten more subtypes including spear phishing, search engine phishing, business email compromise and more. But first, the good ol’ phishing we’ve come to know and loathe. Download the 11 Types of Phishing eBook Standard Phishing: Casting a Wide Net At its most basic, standard phishing is the attempt to steal confidential information by pretending to be an au

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New DRaaS Options Change the Game for Small and Midsize Businesses

In the last few years, businesses have been supplementing traditional backup and recovery with disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS). With DRaaS, servers and applications are replicated at a remote site that’s owned and maintained by a cloud service provider. The replicated environment can be used in an emergency if there’s a disruption to the production environment. DRaaS eliminates the infrastructure costs and maintenance responsibilities associated with owning a secondary datacenter. How DRaaS helps reduce cost IT departments everywhere are looking to stretch their budgets further and get more value out of their investments. This has led to a shift in spending from capital expenditures (capex) to operational expenditures (opex). With DRaaS, businesses can enjoy the benefits of highly resilient IT without owning the hardware or being responsible for maintenance. It can also alleviate IT teams from having to keep disaster recovery expertise on staff, depending on the level of managed

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Important Information on Updating to Mac WSA 9.1.3

To continue to benefit from the level of antivirus and internet security protection you currently receive from Webroot, please update to the latest version of Webroot Security (version 9.1.3 or later) before you install Big Sur. If you have already installed Big Sur, please update to Webroot Security (version 9.1.3 or later) as soon as possible to continue to receive real-time protection. For detailed instructions: How to check which version of Webroot SecureAnywhere is running on the mac How to Manually Update Webroot SecureAnywhere in a mac

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OpenText Advertising on a Bus in Toronto

Looking at the news and in Toronto is a Hub city for NHL teams to play there games and I saw OpenText on the side of the Bus! Cool!

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IMPORTANT: Operating System Support Changes

By the end of 2020, Webroot will change the operating systems we support for our Consumer Antivirus & Internet Security, plus our Webroot Business Endpoint Protection. Please see the list below. If you do not update your current operating system(s), although you will still be protected by Webroot, you will not receive Webroot feature updates and the risk of malware infection can increase. To continue to benefit from the level of antivirus, internet security and endpoint protection you currently receive from Webroot, please update your operating system(s) to the most current version your device provider offers. Windows 7 32- and 64-bit (all Editions), Windows 7 SP1 32- and 64-bit (all Editions) Windows 8 32- and 64-bit Windows 8.1 32- and 64-bit Windows 10 32- and 64-bit macOS 10.12 (Sierra®) macOS 10.13 (High Sierra®) macOS 10.14 (Mojave®) macOS 10.15 (Catalina®) For a look at the operating system requirements across all of our products, please visit our System Requirements page. If yo

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Add some sizzle to your summer with the MSP Summer Treat Wave!

Have you heard about the MSP Summer Treat Wave? Free stuff every day. A grand prize pack worth $1500. And some of the best channel sponsors around! If you’re an MSP, you won’t want to miss out. Here are the details. Prizes: Win a daily prize for 10 days straight! Be entered for a chance to win the grand prize pack worth $1,500 in summer gear! Includes sweet summer swag like a Yeti cooler bag, wireless projector, Bluetooth speaker, Bose audio sunglasses and a lot more! How it works: Every day from July 13 to July 24, you’ll unwrap a free gift from one of the channel sponsors. Gifts might be an e-book, a gift card, or a marketing resource – there are all kinds of cool and helpful items available.All treats will be sent out on July 31. The grand prize pack is worth $1,500 in summer swag, like a Yeti cooler bag, wireless projector, Bluetooth speaker, Bose audio sunglasses and more. You’ll get one entry for the grand prize, which will be drawn on July 28. How to enter: Sign up here anytime

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MSPs – Don’t miss the Summer Treat Wave!

We’re excited to participate in a special summer promotion especially for MSPs: MSP Summer Treat Wave. And it starts in just a few days. Here’s what you need to know. Prizes: Win a daily prize for 10 days straight! Be entered for a chance to win the grand prize pack worth $1,500 in summer gear! Includes sweet summer swag like a Yeti cooler bag, wireless projector, Bluetooth speaker, Bose audio sunglasses and a lot more! How it works: Each day for 10 days, you’ll unwrap a special free gift from one of the channel sponsors. It might be an e-book, a gift card, or a marketing resource – there are all kinds of cool and helpful items available. But you won’t know what you’re getting until the day arrives! So, check back frequently to see what’s been unwrapped. All treats will be sent out on July 31. The grand prize pack is worth $1,500 in summer swag, like a Yeti cooler bag, wireless projector, Bluetooth speaker, Bose audio sunglasses and more. When you enter, you’ll have a chance to win the

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Working or Studying From Home? We’ve Got a Handy New Playbook for ThatWFH

At any given moment, some brilliant hacker is out there inventing new and creative ways to breach systems, steal data, and cause trouble. In particular, cybercriminals love to take advantage of current events (such as COVID-19), so they can increase the likelihood of their own success by capitalizing on people’s fear, trust, sense of urgency, and general desire to find information. Here’s an example of what we’re talking about. During March and April of this year, our in-house threat intelligence showed that at least 20,000 new websites were created with COVID-19, Coronavirus, or closely related terms in their domain name. According to our data, at least 2% of those websites are malicious. On top of that, our data also shows major spikes in targeted phishing campaigns that pretend to offer info on COVID-19, personal protective equipment (PPE) such as masks, government health advice, and more. As more people work, study, and interact online, we all need to take some cyber-safety steps t

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[BETA] Android Mobile 2020

We’re happy to announce that tomorrow, we will be launching a new Android Mobile Beta! Throughout this beta, you’l be working with our product team by testing out new mobile functionality, features, and designs. All you need is an Android 7 phone or newer. That’s it! If this sounds like you, here’s how you can join: Complete this quick survey Request access to the beta group here Only those who have completed the survey in full and have agreed to the NDA will be granted access to this private group .

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Planned Maintenance Outage: Saturday, June 27News

On Saturday, June 27th at 10 a.m. BST, Webroot will begin performing planned maintenance. The maintenance window is scheduled to last for 120 minutes. During this period, all console access will be unavailable. All other Webroot services will be working as normal, including scanning and protecting your devices. We apologize for any inconvenience caused by this essential maintenance window. Customers trying to log into the console will see the following message: Again, we apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and thank you for your patience. To stay up to date with the latest updates, be sure to subscribe to https://status.webroot.com/

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It’s Here! Welcome to the Webroot Evasion Shield

It’s coming folks! We’re starting the rollout of the new Webroot® Evasion Shield. This critical security layer uses brand new, patented Webroot technology to detect, block, and quarantine evasive script attacks—including file-based, fileless, obfuscated, or encrypted threats—to help businesses become more resilient against advanced cyberattacks. The shield will also prevent malicious behaviors from executing in PowerShell, JavaScript, VBScript, and more, which are often used to launch evasive attacks. Get an overview of how it works in the video below. Who’s going to get the new shield? Every Webroot Business Endpoint Protection customer will benefit from the new shield. It doesn’t cost extra and you don’t have to install it separately. However, please make sure all your endpoints are using the 9.0.28.00 version of the Business Endpoint Protection agent or higher. Earlier agent versions will not fully support Evasion Shield malicious script protection. Will the new shield start protect

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NEW: Privacy and Security with DNS over HTTPS (DoH)

DNS has been around since 1983 and has worked brilliantly at resolving all internet domain requests for both IPv4 and the newer IPv6 address spaces. However, DNS was not built with privacy or security in mind, as it communicates all requests in clear text. To make DNS more secure for users, the new DNS over HTTPS (DoH) protocol encrypts the requests using the same HTTPS encryption used when connecting to a secure website. All the major web browsers are beginning to support DoH, but this incredible privacy enhancement can also bring some security drawbacks. What exactly is DNS over HTTPS (DoH)? DoH is an initiative to prevent eavesdropping and manipulation of DNS request data by third parties, whether for malicious purposes, governmental control, or commercial reasons. DoH adds encryption to these requests, thereby hiding them from prying eyes and ensuring the privacy and security of the overall connection. Why is DoH a problem for IT security? Adding privacy can come at a cost. From a

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Webroot Security Awareness Training Named “A Strong Performer” in Forrester ReportReport

We received some great news from a very well-respected analyst report and couldn't wait to share. As you know, we like to preach the good news of security awareness training around here. We've seen firsthand how it can help stem one of the most common sources of cybersecurity breaches around: user error. That's why we're proud to announce we were named "A Strong Performer" in Security Awareness Training Solutions by the leading independent research firm Forrester in The Forrester Wave™: Security Awareness And Training Solutions, Q1 2020. Here's what the report had to say about the importance of security awareness training for organizational success and overall cyber resilience: "Organizations with strong security cultures have employees who are educated, enabled, and enthusiastic about their personal cybersafety and that of their employer. Successful vendors help CISOs create and foster a good security culture, making security part of the vision and values of everyone in the organizati

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Protect & Streamline Event: June 17-18, 2020

I wanted to bring your attention to a great event Webroot will be participating in alongside our trusted partner Auvik Networks. In the true spirit of the day, it's an all-virtual event but will feature TONS of helpful and informative talks for today's IT leaders. From the event organizers: "Our world is changing fast. Businesses rely on IT teams now more than ever to help them adapt and thrive—but that’s a tall order when you’re dealing with finite resources and tough decisions of your own. Get ready to rise to the challenge with the help of IT leaders and industry experts at the Protect & Serve Summit." Event Details: Protect & Serve Summit for IT Leaders Day 1: Managing Business Risk | June 17 Day 2: Streamlining IT Operations | June 18 Webroot Session Empower the Remote Workforce |Cameron Stone, Channel Account Manager, Webroot June 17 | 12-12:50 p.m. MT Description: You can count on cybercriminals to capitalize on a real-world crisis like COVID-19 to launch new and more deceptive

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To Live and Love in the Time of Corona

Hello Webroot Community, Below is an excerpt of a recent blog post from OpenText CEO and CTO, Mark Barrenechea, that I wanted to share with you. You can read the full post here. As we approach 100 days of quarantine or shelter in place, I wanted to take an inventory of what we know, what we need to know, and how to live and love in the time of Corona. Humanity is at a critical juncture, and our individual decisions will decide between life or death, recession or depression, and potential social unrest or greater harmony. It is a time for empathy. It is a time to live and love, to give and grieve. What do we know, and how should we live and love in the time of COVID-19, are the subjects I want to explore (a tip of the hat to Gabriel Garcia Marquez for his Love in the Time of Cholera). Before I begin, let our hearts be with our friends and colleagues that are still trapped in the COVID-19 storm, including India, Philippines, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Russia and elsewhere. May you pass throug

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