TOR or The Onion Router is one of the greatest anonymizer services available on the Internet, and allows anyone to use the Internet without revealing their source IP address, and through that, their location. Yet as recently as last November, when the FBI took down the Silk Road server and arrested its operator , and Interpol followed up with the seizure of 400 Dark Web marketplace sites and the arrest of ...
Just a quick note to my WordPress pals – the latest update, WordPress 4.2.3, has an import fix for a cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerability that leaves your site vulnerable to attack. According to Sophos:
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I recently accepted the position of Secretary in the Twins Cities chapter of the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC)2-TC, and in order to send me the passwords for certain online chapter assets, it was requested that I sigh up for the password management product, LastPass. I have written previously about LastPass, KeePass, and RoboForm as recently as June 16. ...
If you are using the paid version of AVG Internet Security as your endpoint security solution, you will see a pop-up over the next week that will take you to a page providing instructions for upgrading your AVG to remain compatible with the new Windows 10 operating system. Evidently it is important to be upgraded to AVG Internet Security 2015.
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Continue Reading →So you bought yourself a new computer. It has everything, a touch screen, built in WiFi and Bluetooth, anything you could want. And a whole bunch of stuff you didn’t want, in the form of pre-installed software programs, trial-ware, and other bloat-ware and crap-ware that causes an unrelenting stream of pop-ups asking you to purchase and activate these mostly worthless programs.
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Continue Reading →This is the year that false tax return filing really made the news in a big way. First, there was the exfiltration of return data from the IRS Get Transcript website, where many American taxpayers lost personally identifying information. Now there is news of an attack by a Bulgarian cyber-criminal against the networks of four unidentified accounting firms, and the theft of the tax and personal information of around 1000 clients. This crook has been extradited ...
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A follow up to last Sundays musings on human-computer relations
One of the most important and easily implemented security protections is data backup. That’s right, backup is a part of a well crafted security program. Because whatever the disaster, whether cyber-attack, theft, data corruption, hardware failure, fire, flood, or bad weather, having a good backup program means that you can recover from disaster and continue operations.
And one of the most important things to ...
Continue Reading →Not sure what’s happening, can’t find any news on it, but according to the web site “Is It Down Right Now?” Like to buy a couple computers today…
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