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Webroot CEO Mike Potts Doubles Down on MSPs
When Mike Potts succeeded Dick Williams as Webroot CEO in September, the endpoint security company vowed to maintain its aggressive focus on MSPs. But that’s not all. Potts also wants to accelerate Webroot’s transformation into a total security platform provider.
The journey requires Potts to extend from his enterprise heritage — and dive deep into the MSP-centric SMB sector. Fortunately, he has a seasoned MSP tour guide along with him. Potts and that guide — Webroot VP of Worldwide Business Sales Charles Tomeo — held key meetings last week during IT Nation 2017, a ConnectWise conference that attracted more than 3,500 attendees in Orlando, Fla.
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6 warning signs you’re about to be crypto-scammed
Just recently, the social media and digital security monitoring company ZeroFOX reported about the dark side of digital currency. According to the report, a new type of financial scam involving bitcoin is rapidly spreading across social networks.
However, with the cryptocurrency market growing very rapidly, have it in mind that scamsters are becoming more sophisticated than Ponzi schemes. And before you invest in any of them, try to explore the following unconventional red flags that indicate a cryptocurrency is a scam.
Make sure you know the top 6 signs to look out for.
Fasten data leak: Nearly 1 million users' sensitive data mistakenly exposed by US ride-hailing firm
Over one million users' personal and financial data was inadvertently publicly exposed by US-based ride hailing firm Fasten. The leaked data includes names, emails, phone numbers, credit card data, links to photos, device IMEI numbers, GPS data and users' taxi routes.
Fasten told Gizmodo that the data was not accessed by anyone else, apart from Kromtech security experts. Bob Diachenko, Kromtech's chief communications officer, said that the security firm had also discovered that around a year's worth of information on customer pick-up and drop-off points was also leaked.
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Google Addresses Android's Biggest Security Problem: Accessibility Services
+1 for Google taking action to better protect their Play Store! (much needed)
In an email (see Full Article) sent out last week and shared on Reddit, Google told developers that it plans to remove all apps that utilize the Accessibility service from the official Play Store unless the Accessibility service is actually being used to power a feature for users with disabilities.
Google will ban any app that misuses the Accessibility service.
Google hopes that this new requirement will make it harder for banking trojans to slip into its official Play Store.
Get the full scoop from Bleeping Computer.
Windows Control Panel Links Abused in Cyber-Espionage Campaign
A cyber-espionage group believed to be operating out of China has been deploying malware in the past two years that disguises as control panel link (CPL) files.
The new Reaver malware Palo Alto discovered is a backdoor trojan and helps the cyber-espionage unit gather information from infected hosts and execute malicious commands.
Learn how to protect your users from CPL attacks.
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