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New Leadership at Webroot
It's a bittersweet goodbye as our beloved CEO Dick Williams has decided to retire after 8 years at Webroot, and more than five decades in the business world. Webroot has named a new CEO, Mike Potts, who will start September 25. Dick will remain on Webroot’s Board of Directors.
The whole Webroot Team wishes Dick the best in his future endeavors is jazzed up for Mike's arrival!
Check out Dick's heartfelt blog post and our press release for the whole story.
How blockchain technology can transform the security industry
Implemented correctly, the blockchain may provide the enterprise with more trust in their security systems.
The blockchain itself provides little in terms of threat detection or defense in the manner of traditional cybersecurity solutions, but it does offer an infrastructure of transparency, event tracking, cryptography and the chance to improve security sensor and data sharing -- which some security solutions and implementations on enterprise networks lack.
Learn more about this emerging security technology.
US Government Site Was Hosting Ransomware
We wish we could categorize this one under "Fake News".
As recently as Wednesday afternoon, a U.S. government website was hosting a malicious JavaScript downloader that led victims to installations of Cerber ransomware.
Mariano Palomo Villafranca, a malware analyst with Spanish telco Telefonica, today published an analysis of the attack. He pointed out that most U.S. .gov sites are whitelisted by reputation services, making them ideal malware hosts for attackers wishing to elude detection.
Read the analysis of the attack for yourself.
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