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  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 (...

In light of the WannaCry ransomware attacks on computer users across the world including Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Centre (HKCERT) of the Hong Kong Productivity Council today (13 May 2017) warned that WannaCry was a very vicious malware which...

  Favourite Security Reads of the Week (12 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.   隱形病毒襲網店 顧客自保錦囊 (Written by HKCERT on Hong Kong Economic Times, 2017-05-05, Chinese) Europe overtakes US to become the largest perpetrator of global cybercrime (IT Security Guru, 2017-...

  Favourite Security Reads of the Week (5 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.   網絡勒索再現 機構宜做好保安 (Written by HKCERT on Hong Kong Economic Times, 2017-04-28, Chinese) 做好評估掃描 保網站安全 (Written by HKCERT on Hong Kong...

  Cover Story Hong Kong Security Watch Report (Q1 2017) Windows Vista End of Support Hot Topic Hong Kong Google Play Store's Apps Security Risk Report (April 2017) Upcoming Event “Smart Home, Safe Living” 1-...