Piriform’s CCleaner is a popular computer cleaning and optimizing product that many people use. I have my doubts about the real effectiveness of these utilities, but many of my clients swear by it. I have used CCleaner myself several times as one of the tools I used to clean up a malware infection.
Recently, the CCleaner software code was modified to include a malicious backdoor. This warning was published earlier in one ...
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That’s right, it’s still you. Sorry.
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and this week’s theme is Simple Steps to Online Safety.
The toughest part of cybersecurity is securing the human mind, emotions, behaviors, and responses from the making a decision or taking an action that will open the door for a cyber-attacker. The reality is that it is much easier to secure systems than humans. And unfortunately, humans have been given ...
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Cybersecurity researchers at Armis Labs have released information about a new attack vector called BlueBorne. This exploit has the potential to put millions of devices running Windows, Linux, Android or iOS operating systems at risk.
This exploit allows attackers to connect over the Bluetooth radio system with having to first pair the two Bluetooth enabled devices. Once installed, the attacker has full control ...
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.A court ruling means that Yahoo! and its parent company, Verizon, could end paying a heavy price for the huge breaches that saw more than 1 billion people’s details compromised.
The Sophos Naked security blog ran an article in August that was a disappointing revelation about major online brands that allow ridiculously easy user passwords. Just because a web site will permit you to use a bad password, doesn’t mean you should. Our current recommendation is to use passwords of at least 15 characters, and couple that with two-factor authentication at every opportunity.
The password management program Dashlane performed an audit of 37 online brands and rated their ...
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NEW!SIX 60 MINUTE CLASSES
Learn something new! Attend one, some or all.
I know many of the other speakers and this looks like a terrific lineup. Block out the day and get some valuable information you ...
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Two-factor and multi-factor authentication are becoming more important and more available as we struggle to secure our information from attackers. These factors are something you know, something you have, and something you are. Biometrics (something you are) are one of the three factors used in computer, network, and application authentication.
Biometrics include thumbprint or fingerprint readers, palm scanners, iris and retinal scanners, facial recognition, speech recognition, and even arcane systems that ...
Continue Reading →Is your email address one of the 711 million emails that are being used by the Onliner spam-bot? I checked my email address at Have I Been Pwned and found it on the list. You can click through the link and see if yours is on the Onliner list, or part of some other breach.
Onliner ...
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.We will start with the good stuff for a change. Talk Like A Pirate Day is my second favorite unofficial Holiday. Check out the official website. Check out the cool pirate swag and order yourself a pirate hoodie or tee shirt.
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WireX is a new botnet that runs on hijacked and compromised Android phones. A bot-net is a collection of compromised devices that can be coordinated by the hijacker to work together on a certain task. It might be bit-coin mining, or password cracking, or other tasks that require a lot of processing power. This bot-net, like last year’s Mirai ...