A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Remeber Y2K? The COVID crisis has increased demand on old governmental systems and the call has gone out again for COBOL programmers.
Even though the Linux operating system is somewhat more secure than either Windows or even the allegedly “hacker-proof” Mac operating systems, and considerably less expensive to use, it has never been taken up by a significant number or average, every-day users.
Linux has always suffered a bit from being a DIY operating system, with a reputation for requiring some major computer chops ...
Continue Reading →A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.From CyberHeist News
A new piece of sophisticated technology is being used by fraudsters to scam unsuspecting people over the phone. Police said a woman in the York Region received a call earlier this month and was told by the scammers she had been a victim of ...
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No one is immune from cyber-attacks anymore, and that includes Apple and Linux systems. Lately there has been a lot of activity around crypto-ransomware attacks against Linux servers. When you consider that a very large percentage of servers working on the Internet are running Linux under the hood, this is a critical issue.
February 2019 brought us the ransomware variant B0r0nt0k, which encrypted server contents and then demanded as much as ...
Continue Reading →A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Original release date: August 23, 2019
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued a warning about a new email scam in which malicious cyber actors send unsolicited emails to taxpayers from fake (i.e., spoofed) IRS email addresses. The emails contain a link to a spoofed IRS.gov website that displays fake details ...
Continue Reading →A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.An very cool. detailed, and facinating look at how technology is changing and breaking the spy game from foreignpolicy.com. Worth the read.
The world of espionage is facing tremendous technological, political, legal, social, and commercial changes. The winners will be those who break the old rules of the ...
Continue Reading →A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Mozilla has fixed a critical zero-day bug in the latest point releases of the Firefox web browser.
Original release date: June 07, 2019
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued a reminder urging consumers to look out for two new ...
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.If you have a Symantec certificate on your HTTPS website, Chrome 70 and Firefox 63 will both be disowning any web certificates signed by Symantec. From this month forward, anyone with Chrome or Firefox who browses to a web page “secured” with a Symantec certificate will see an unequivocal warning insisting ...
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Is Linux “safer” to use than Windows? Is it immune to malware? You may be under the assumption that Linux is not vulnerable to the same exploits that plague Windows systems. If so, you would be incorrect. Linux has its very own set of vulnerabilities and working exploits, and Linux servers and computers need anti-malware software protection just as much as their Windows counterparts. Today we will look at some ...
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.From LastPass – It feels like almost every day there’s another data breach in the news, or a case of user credentials up for sale on the Dark Web. Despite the headlines, and repeated warnings from experts about weak passwords and the dangers of password reuse, users have yet to change their ...
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