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Addigy talks up Apple-in-the-enterprise tech show

February 7, 2022 admin apple, iPhone, MacOS, Mobile Device Management, Security

Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2022 04:13:00 -0800

Apple’s continuing enterprise momentum means it’s grabbing a growing slice of the business ecosystem, and the expansion is driving growth across the Apple device management ecosystem.

Addigy Innovate 2022

Reflecting this, Addigy recently announced plans to hold its annual Innovate 2022 conference later this month. I spoke with Jason Dettbarn, founder and CEO, who says the event will include keynotes and product presentations, including one hosted by The Ethical Hacker author Ralph Echemendia.

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ComputerWorld Independent

Why Apple’s improved 2FA protection matters to business

February 2, 2022 admin apple, iOS, MacOS, Mobile, Security, small and medium business

Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2022 06:01:00 -0800

Apple has introduced a new layer of protection to its existing two-factor authentication (2FA) system, making it a little harder for phishing attacks to successfully steal valuable authentication credentials.

Given that Apple, PayPal, and Amazon were the top three brands used for successful phishing attacks last year, according to a recent Jamf report, this matters.

Phishing costs billions and is bad for business

Phishing is a huge problem. The scale of these attacks shot up during the pandemic. The FBI Internet Crime Report 2020 revealed that phishing attacks affected 241,342 victims in 2020, up from 114,702 in 2019, with adjusted losses of more than $54 billion. Verizon’s 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report confirmed that 36% of data breaches that year involved phishing.

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Jamf CEO weighs in on Apple deployments and enterprise security

February 2, 2022 admin apple, MacOS, Mobile, Security, small and medium business

Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2022 08:34:00 -0800

“Apple will become the number one device ecosystem in the enterprise by the end of this decade,” Jamf CEO Dean Hager told me while introducing an in-depth enterprise security trends report that enterprises should look at.

Apple continues to see incredible growth

The nature of enterprise IT is rapidly becoming multiplatform. Jamf recently shared some details concerning the rapid growth in Apple device deployments it is seeing in business. For example, it now has 60,000 active customers, up from 36,000 two years before that – and believes new services such as Apple Business Essentials will help maintain this growth.

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MalwareBytes Security

Update now! Apple patches another actively used zero-day

February 2, 2022 admin Exploits and vulnerabilities, iomobileframebuffer, iOS, ipados, MacOS, monterey

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2022 21:56:12 +0000

Apple has patched two zero-day vulnerabilities that were being used in the wild. Users are advised to update as soon as they can.

Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities

Tags: IOMobileFrameBuffer iOS iPadOS macOS Monterey

MalwareBytes Security

Apple fixes Mac bug that could have allowed takeover of webcams and browser tabs

February 2, 2022 admin apple, Exploits and vulnerabilities, MacOS, popup, safari, uri, URL, uxss

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2022 11:43:49 +0000

A researcher discovered a way to gain control of both webcams and any open session in Safari. How did they do it?

Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities

Tags: Apple macOS popup safari URI url UXSS

Microsoft Security

The evolution of a Mac trojan: UpdateAgent’s progression

February 2, 2022 admin Adware, cybersecurity, MacOS, microsoft 365 defender, Microsoft security intelligence, updateagent

Credit to Author: Microsoft 365 Defender Threat Intelligence Team| Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2022 17:00:00 +0000

Our discovery and analysis of a sophisticated Mac trojan in October exposed a year-long evolution of a malware family—and depicts the rising complexity of threats across platforms.

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MalwareBytes Security

Mac adware is more sophisticated and dangerous than traditional Mac malware

February 27, 2020 admin Adware, bundlore, crossrider, Mac, Mac adware, mac threats, MacOS, Macs, potentially unwanted programs, pups, surfbuyer

Credit to Author: Thomas Reed| Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 18:34:48 +0000

Adware and PUPs can actually be far more invasive and dangerous on the Mac than “real” malware. We demonstrate with analysis of Crossrider, a sophisticated Mac adware that uses evasion and persistence techniques more complex than nation-state malware.

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Tags: adware bundlore crossrider mac Mac adware mac threats macOS macs potentially unwanted programs PUPs surfbuyer

MalwareBytes Security

Malwarebytes Labs releases 2020 State of Malware Report

February 11, 2020 admin 2020 state of malware report, Adware, Android, Android malware, Data Privacy, emotet, hacktools, iOS, Mac, MacOS, ransomware, reports, ryuk, Sodinokibi, State of Malware, state of malware report, trickbot, trojans, web threats, windows

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 08:01:00 +0000

The 2020 State of Malware Report reveals how cybercriminals upped the ante on businesses, Mac threats outpaced PCs, and ransomware continued its targeted, deadly assault with new families in 2019. Learn all this and more in the full report, linked in our blog.

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