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Ransomware: Prepare for emergencies

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The danger of ransomware attacks calls for a robust backup and monitoring strategy.
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Sharing threat information with MISP

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The Malware Information Sharing Platform lets you record and document security incidents – and share the information with users on other networks.
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Malware analysis in the sandbox

Under the Microscope free

In malware analysis, a sandbox can provide insight into the software and its run-time environment. While a sandbox can prevent the execution of malicious code with built-in detection mechanisms, malware developers can use countermeasures to take advantage of those same detection mechanisms.
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Countering embedded malware attacks

The Return of the Macro Virus free

With the resurgence of sophisticated macro virus attacks, new countermeasures are in order. We offer a few recommendations.
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Cloud Wars

In some particularly sophisticated DDoS attacks, the attackers rely on and target the cloud, which allows them to work around conventional defense mechanisms. We explain how a DDoS attack in the cloud works, and how you can defend against it.

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Figure 1: The SQL Injection module in the Damn Vulnerable Web Application.

Discovering SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

Hardly a day goes by without reports of hackers breaking into government, military, or enterprise servers. If you analyze the details of the hacker’s approach, you will see that, in 90 percent of all cases, SQL injection was the root cause of a server’s compromise.

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