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Infosec bytes for week 10/18

- Roderick Mooi

  1. Information security tops the EDUCAUSE Top 10 IT Issues list for the third year in a row.
    - Find out what higher education IT leaders are saying about it.
  2. Developing a Risk-Based Security Strategy in Higher Education
  3. How to protect Office 365 data from ransomware attacks
  4. The Trouble with Phishing
  5. Cisco Report Finds Organizations Relying on Automated Cyber-Security
    - “There are a number of different things that organizations can do to improve cyber-security, including regular patching to mitigate known threats. Artes [Security Business Group Architect] said that organizations need to get the basic “blocking and tackling” of cyber-security in place, which includes patching, to form a basis for risk mitigation.”
    - www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/security/security-reports.html
  6. Ransom Where? Malicious Cryptocurrency Miners Takeover, Generating Millions
    - securityintelligence.com/xmrig-father-zeus-of-cryptocurrency-mining-malware/
  7. How Did This Memcache Thing Happen?
    - blog.cloudflare.com/memcrashed-major-amplification-attacks-from-port-11211/
  8. It’s Hard To Change The Keys To The Internet And It Involves Destroying HSM’s
  9. Why Blockchain Will Serve New IT Purposes in 2018
  10. Encryption 101: a malware analyst’s primer