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Did you miss any of this week's Palo Alto Networks action? Don't worry -- we've rounded up our top news and views right here:

* The Unit 42 Threat Intelligence team shared new research:
  * [Regional Malware Trends in Latin America: July -- December 2016](https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/blog/2017/03/unit42-regional-malware-trends-latin-america-july-december-2016/)
  * [NexusLogger: A New Cloud-based Keylogger Enters the Market](https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/blog/2017/03/unit42-nexuslogger-new-cloud-based-keylogger-enters-market/)
  * [Palo Alto Networks Researcher Discovers Three New Adobe Falsh Vulnerabilities](https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/blog/2017/03/unit42-palo-alto-networks-unit-42-vulnerability-research-march-2017-disclosures/)
* We reviewed the [new and expanded partner integrations for PAN-OS 8.0](https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/blog/2017/03/pan-os-8-0-announcing-new-expanded-partner-integrations/).
* Women in cybersecurity: Rinki Sethi, Senior Director of Security Operations and Strategy at Palo Alto Networks, [shared her journey to a career in InfoSec](https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/blog/2017/03/women-cybersecurity-journey-infosec/).
* Updates to Palo Alto Networks Aperture [extend SaaS security to help meet European data privacy needs](https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/blog/2017/03/aperture-updates-extend-saas-security-europe-help-meet-data-privacy-needs/).
* Don't just listen -- act. Palo Alto Networks EMEA CSO Greg Day [weighed in on UK's new National Crime Agency and National Cyber Security Center cyberthreat report](https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/blog/2017/03/cso-lets-not-leave-new-uk-nca-ncsc-cyberthreat-report-shelf/)
* Securing the government: Pamela Warren shared the [cybersecurity lessons we should learn from 2016](https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/blog/2017/03/gov-securing-government-heres-learn-2016/).
* We shared how [Traps can prevent ransomware](https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/blog/2017/03/traps-can-can-prevent-ranran-ransomware/) such as RanRan.
* The [Cybersecurity Canon Bracket Challenge is on](https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/blog/2017/03/2017-cybersecurity-canon-bracket-challenge-vote-now-round-1/)! Vote now for round one.

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