I have been fortunate to have had time to pursue a couple of information technology certifications recently. I have added CompTIA’s Network+ and CASP (Certified Advanced Security Professional), and I am working on the brand new CompTIA Pentest+. The certification is so new there are no text books yet, and the exam was just released on July 31. I have been taking the ...
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.
Hackers from around the world (not just Russia) had the rare opportunity to crack election-style voting machines this weekend in Las Vegas.
07/25/2018 07:55 AM EDT Original release date: July 25, 2018
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We have discussed the sorry state of passwords in many recent articles. There is an alternative to passwords and pins that may be coming to a smartphone near you. It is called SemanticLock and it uses emoji-like icons to unlock your smartphone.
Most smartphones go unsecured mainly because most people find it difficult to enter a password using the on-screen keyboard. 4 to 6 digit numeric PINs are ...
Continue Reading →Bad news – your small business network is easy for an attacker to access, and for most of you there are two or more exploitable attacker vectors. A recent report from Positive Technologies analyzed the results of 22 penetration tests on companies from finance, transportation, retail, and even information technology. All of the companies were breached with little difficulty. The two easiest methods of unauthorized network access were not terribly surprising: Wi-Fi networks, and company employees.
This comes under the heading of “it was inevitable.” There is a new malware product that runs effectively on both Windows and Linux systems. Since OSx looks a lot like Linux under the hood, can a Win/Lin/Mac triple-threat be far away? Called “WellMess,” this malware takes advantage of the dual platform capabilities of Google’s Golang programming language to work.
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You think you just got a malware infection on your computer, but you’re not sure, and you aren’t sure what to do. Take it to the Geek Squad or another qualified IT shop? If only there were simple things you could try on your own. The good news is there are, and we will show you some of them today.
I just finished helping a client with a strange issue that I thought might be malware related, and we successfully fixed his issue by email, without having to meet or even set up a remote support session. And it occurred to me that I have not covered the issue of malware remediation in ages. Since this can be a fairly easy DIY project for most computer users, I thought a ...
Back on May 30, 2018 the FBI asked us all to reboot our Internet access devices, the cable and DSL modems that allow most of us to use the Internet. Supposedly, this would remove the VPN Filter malware, if our router was infected. This was not exactly the truth. The FBI had taken over the “toknowall” command and control server ...
In our last post we kicked off a review of web browsers and other services that provide improved security, privacy protection, and anonymity when traveling on the web. Today we wrap up our report. The last three items in our list are not technically a browser, but provide unique solutions to privacy and anonymity that we thought were worthy of ...
There has been a lot of new information about secure web browsing crossing my desktop lately. Back in May, we wrote a series of articles about browser hacking and hijacking, which described in depth the dangers to our privacy and anonymity that we face when we are casually web browsing. In this article we are going to be looking at ...
