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  Favourite Security Reads of the Week (16 Jun 2017) .   "Favourite Security Reads of the Week". Each week we share five news or articles that we like. We hope you will love this column and we welcome your comment via email to [email protected].   Below is the Favourite Security Reads of this Week.   工業4.0會議 專家分享網絡保安 (Written by HKCERT on Hong Kong Economic Times, 2017-06-16, Chinese) 新電腦蠕蟲 滲透力較WannaCry更強 (Written by HKCERT on Hong...

  Favourite Security Reads of the Week (9 Jun 2017) .   "Favourite Security Reads of the Week". Each week we share five news or articles that we like. We hope you will love this column and we welcome your comment via email to hkcert@hkcert....

HKCERT is aware that a security vendor has published a research on a Fireball marketing adware, claimed to has infected over 250 million computers worldwide. According to news report, 8.7% of HK corporate networks has at least 1 infected machine in their network.   ...

  Favourite Security Reads of the Week (2 Jun 2017) .   "Favourite Security Reads of the Week". Each week we share five news or articles that we like. We hope you will love this column and we welcome your comment via email to [email protected].   Below is the Favourite Security Reads of this Week.   電腦紀錄日誌 追尋黑客行蹤 (Written by HKCERT on Hong Kong Economic Times, 2017-05-26, Chinese) Report Reveals Cybersecurity Professionals In Vital Industries Don’t Trust What Their Tools Are Telling Them (Homeland...

  Cover Story HKCERT Security Alert: Watch out for WannaCry Ransomware Beware of WannaCry Ransomware Spreading Watch out for "WannaCry" on the Linux platform Be Aware of Spam Emails spreading Jaff Ransomware Hot Topic Hong Kong Google Play Store's...

While the impact of WannaCry worm to Windows users is still so fresh in memory, a similar vulnerability of the Samba service was discovered in Linux platform. This newly discovered remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2017-7494) affects all versions newer than Samba 3...

  Favourite Security Reads of the Week (26 May 2017) .   "Favourite Security Reads of the Week". Each week we share five news or articles that we like. We hope you will love this column and we welcome your comment via email to [email protected].   Below is the Favourite Security Reads of this Week.   WannaCry張牙舞爪 用戶須自保 (Written by HKCERT on Hong Kong Economic Times, 2017-05-19, Chinese) WannaCry Demonstrates Directors Need Better Understanding of Technical Debt (The Wall Street Journal, 2017-05-16) Circle...

  Favourite Security Reads of the Week (19 May 2017) .   "Favourite Security Reads of the Week". Each week we share five news or articles that we like. We hope you will love this column and we welcome your comment via email to [email protected].   Below is the Favourite Security Reads of this Week.   官方商店下載App 免DNS被「劫持」 (Written by HKCERT on Hong Kong Economic Times, 2017-05-12, Chinese) WannaCry Ransom Total: How Much Money Did The WannaCry Authors Make? (Hashed Out, 2017-...

While the world's attention is focusing on the WannaCry ransomware, another ransomware, called Jaff, is spreading through massive spam emails.HKCERT would like to alert the public to be aware of spam emails, not to overlook the threat. As of today, ...

Contents High Risk Areas Preventive measures for individual users Preventive measure for enterprise users Other preventive measures What if my computer is infected with WannaCry ransomware? Reference   Download PDF version of the following guideline here.   An new ransomware variant called WannaCry (...