We continue to hear from security researchers and professionals that an astonishing 95% of all exploits begin with someone opening an attachment or clicking a link on a phishing email. I have a client where two different employees opened the attachment on an email from “FedEx” and became infected with crypto-malware. These incidents happened nearly a week apart, and you think that the second ...
We have all received a fake tech support call from someone claiming to be a Microsoft employee. Now there is a new twist on the scam involving a fake screen pop-up and tech support fakers who claim to be from your Internet service provider. Google has an extensive collection of fake tech support pop-ups, these are all fake. Take a look.
We have reported on this issue several times in this blog. Like here and here and ...
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The Apple OSX platform has long held the cache of being invulnerable to attack. Cyber-criminals have be crafting more exploits to target Macs, iPhones, and iPads, especially since 2012. The reason for this, as explored in a recent article on SiliconBeat, is that Apple users tend to have more disposable income. If you willingly pay more to have “the best” or ...
Using copy and paste to save text from websites is something all of us commonly do. Nothing could be simpler, right? Highlight your text, then <ctrl> c, and <ctrl> v. It turns out that this can be dangerous.
A new article on Naked Security tells how it is now possible to use copy and paste to inject malware code from a web site ...
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Mobile smart devices have all the capabilities of a laptop or computer. What this means from a cybersecurity perspective is that they are every bit as vulnerable as a laptop or desktop computer. The fact that they are small makes them easy for a thief to slip in a pocket or backpack and carry away, along with your personal information, contacts, pictures, geo-location history, and a raft of critical and revealing ...
On Wednesday we looked at the obvious, visual symptoms of a malware infection. Today we will explore some changes in performance that can indicate that your computer is infected.
Most malware writers are NOT interested in giving you easy visual clues, but the malware will create additional activity on your system that can tip you off to an infection.
Today we are going to look at the symptoms that your computer may be displaying that are indications of a malware infection.
These are signs that you will see on your computer display, and are the most obvious symptoms.
Computer breaches can happen many ways, but the two most common are stolen credentials, and phishing emails. Credentials, your user name and password, sometimes are stolen from a web server breach, and then sold online on the criminal marketplaces. Or sometimes you are tricked into giving them up on clever fake websites. Phishing is one way that credentials are stolen. The links in phishing emails often will direct the unwary user to the fake web page with the helpful web ...
Continue Reading →The cyber-criminal underground has found a real moneymaker in the various forms of encryption based ransomware schemes. These exploits turn all your readable work product, your documents, pictures, music and video files, into a collection of encrypted gibberish, and then kindly offers to sell you the decryption key. I recently saw an infographic from Symantec on the Bromium blog that illustrated the problem perfectly.
We have been recommending the Google Chromebook to our clients for use as a dedicated online banking system. The reason we like this platform even more than a Linux LiveCD boot disk is that because the Chrome operating system simply supports the operation of the notebook itself, and the Chrome browser. That’s it. There is not a way to install any programs to ...
