A great product for quickly and easily adding web site filtering to your organization is OpenDNS Umbrella. OpenDNS was recently purchased by Cisco Systems. OpenDNS is another featured security product that is part of the Managed Services program here at CIT.
The way OpenDNS works is that all of your traffic to and from the Internet is run through the proxy server cloud at OpenDNS. In addition to protecting your organization ...
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AV-Test rated Bitdefender Endpoint Security 5.3 the best anti-virus software for Windows client business users in its December 2015 test. I mention this because this is the product that we deploy here at CIT for our managed service customers. They rated a nearly perfect score. Here are the particulars:
Try to imagine how much bad stuff we could keep off our computers and networks if we could figure out a way to filter incoming traffic from the Dark Web. Well maybe we can.
First, my apology in advance to my non-technical followers, this article may be a bit high level for the average user.
A post in Spiceworks from “Born2Frag” ...
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If you are in high school (or junior high) or college, attracted to technology, and looking for a career with a future, then you should give serious consideration to the field of Cybersecurity. A recent press release from Cybrary reveals the results of its Cyber Security Job Trends Survey for 2016. Cybrary surveyed 435 senior level technology professionals, and the results indicated a pressing need for more skilled ...
Last week we took an in depth look at social engineering, and looked a phone and email examples in depth.
Cybersecurity awareness training is one of the most effective ways to combat these threats. Not everyone engaged in cybersecurity practice agrees about the effectiveness of this solution, but I have been delivering public cybersecurity courses for over a decade, and I know from the responses ...
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Your phone rings. The caller identifies themselves as someone from a “tech support” company. Your computer has problems, he says, and he called to help you fix them. You agree to pay some sort of fee. You help them set up remote access to your computer. And now you have been hacked and helped them do it.
Would you respond the same way if ...
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This should really be called “anti-social” engineering. A good definition is “social engineering is a non-technical method of intrusion hackers use that relies heavily on human interaction and often involves tricking people into breaking normal security procedures. It is one of the greatest threats that organizations today encounter.”
My article on Wednesday will give an example of phone based social engineering – the fake tech support ...
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Monday we looked at issues with the business class routers at Juniper Networks and Cisco Systems. Today we are going to look at an exploit affecting the Ubiquiti brand of cable modems.
Cable and DSL “modems” are used by most consumers, and many small businesses to connect their home or business network to the Internet. These “modems” are really routers.
(It has been a personal pet peave of mine that these devices were called ...
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At the end of December last year Juniper Networks discovered that some malicious actors had added code to the firmware and software that run their routers, creating a back door that would allow attackers to access the router remotely, assume administrator privileges, and view and decrypt VPN traffic running through the routers. As the story unfolded, it turns out that Juniper was using a random number generator from NIST, and that the ...
This is hot off the press. Yesterday Malwarebytes announced a beta of a new anti-crypto software product designed to stop CryptoWall4, CryptoLocker, Tesla, and CTB-Locker. You can download the beta here.
According to Malwarebytes:
Continue Reading →“Malwarebytes Anti-Ransomware monitors all activity in the computer and identifies actions which are typical of ransomware activity. It keeps track of all activity and, once it has ...