{"id":1816,"date":"2016-10-20T10:41:04","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T16:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-internet-guy.com\/?p=1816"},"modified":"2016-10-20T10:41:04","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T16:41:04","slug":"mbrfilter-open-source-tool-to-protect-against-master-boot-record-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-internet-guy.com\/?p=1816","title":{"rendered":"MBRFilter \u2014 Open Source Tool to Protect Against ‘Master Boot Record’ Malware"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ransomware threat has risen exponentially so much that ransomware authors have started abusing the MBR in their attacks to lock down your entire computer instead of just encrypting your important files on hard drive.<\/p>\n

Talos team at Cisco Systems has released a free, open-source tool that protects the master boot record (MBR) sector of computers from modification by bootkits, ransomware, and other malicious attacks.<\/p>\n

Master Boot Record (MBR)<\/i> is the first sector (512 bytes) on your Hard drive that stores the bootloader, a piece of code that is responsible for booting the current Operating System.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Source: MBRFilter \u2014 Open Source Tool to Protect Against ‘Master Boot Record’ Malware<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Ransomware threat has risen exponentially so much that ransomware authors have started abusing the MBR in their attacks to lock down your entire computer instead of just encrypting your important files on hard drive. Talos team at Cisco Systems has released a free, open-source tool that protects the master boot…<\/p>\n

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