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Mike Malloy has made the decision to retire.
Mike has been an integral part of this community from Day 1 until his last day at Webroot. Early on, he realized the need to have a place to be able to talk directly to customers; elicit feedback to help make Webroot better, and connect with others.
Listen to Mike's personal message to the Community.
Chrome will tag FTP sites as "Not secure"
Google Chrome 63, expected to be released sometime around December, will label resources delivered over the FTP protocol as “Not secure”, a member of the Chrome security team has shared.
It’s an old protocol – it dates back to 1971 – and does not encrypt its traffic, meaning that all transmissions can be read by anyone able to perform packet capture on the network.
It can be secured with SSL/TLS, “becoming” thus FTPS (aka “FTP Secure”), but Chrome and all the other major browsers don’t support FTPS.
Help Net Security has your back on this one.
Infosec weakest links: Negligent employees and poor password policies
A study from Ponemon Institute claims that negligent employees are the root cause of data breaches.
And yes, they have the data to back it up.
The most prevalent attack vectors against smaller businesses were phishing/social engineering (48% of respondents) and web-based (43%). More respondents this year stated their organization had a phishing/social engineering attack, which coincides with the number of ransomware attacks their companies experienced.
Get all the statistics and make sure to educate your Organization!
Webroot Quarterly Threat Trends September 2017
It's that time of year again.
We've just released the September 2017 issue of the Webroot Quarterly Threat Trends Report!
Check out the full report and please share your thoughts with us!
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