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Proofpoint Threat Operations and Research recently published their quarterly threat report for July – September 2016, which includes key findings such as:
- Volume of malicious emails rose to their highest levels ever
New campaigns bearing varied attachment types broke volume records set in Q2, peaking at hundreds of millions of messages per day. JavaScript attachments continued to lead these very large email campaigns, growing 69% this quarter.
- Ransomware variants grew tenfold
In particular, 97% of messages with malicious document attachments featured the popular ransomware strain Locky, while CryptXXX was the dominant ransomware delivered by exploit kit (EK).
- Threat actors adjusted tactics in business email compromise (BEC) attacks
In BEC attacks, “display-name spoofing” increased to almost 1-in-3 BEC messages, gaining ground on instances of “reply-to spoofing,” suggesting that BEC actors continue to adjust techniques.
Download the full report. Please let us know if you have any questions related to this report or how Alvaka Networks can protect your people and data from attacks.
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Smoke testing is a type of software testing performed by Alvaka after a software patching sequence to ensure that the system is working correctly and to identify any misconfigurations or conflicts within the patched system.
This is a basic cost calculator for you to compute your typical monthly cost for patching your servers, PCs, laptops, tablets and associated application software. It also forms the basis for you to begin calculating your Return on Investment for software patching, or for comparison with alternatives to the manual process of patching operating systems and application software—such as Patch Management as a Service, also known as Vulnerability Management as a Service.
You want to enter in a fully burdened labor rate for this field. What that means is that you want to take the base hourly rate, plus 25-30% for employer payroll taxes, benefits, vacation/holiday time, etc.
Smoke testing is a term used to describe the testing process for servers after patches are applied.