If you are a high risk or high net worth user of Google’s popular Gmail platform, Google Drive, or other Google services such as YouTube or Google Analytics, Google has come up with an advanced security program for you.
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If you are a high risk or high net worth user of Google’s popular Gmail platform, Google Drive, or other Google services such as YouTube or Google Analytics, Google has come up with an advanced security program for you.
Thanks to Datarecovery.com, for alerting us to this issue. They have seen a high number RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) attacks lately. Generally, these attacks are targeting Microsoft Windows-based servers, where port 3389 has been left open.
The attacker scans for open port 3389, and then uses a password dictionary attack to break the server password. Once the password is found, the attacker can exploit the server or sell access to the ...
Continue Reading →From the Smithsonian. Last week, Saudi Arabia, became the first in the world to grant citizenship to a robot during a technological summit held in its capital. Sophia, created by Hanson Robotics, is designed to look like Audrey Hepburn and possesses advanced artificial intelligence. ...
Continue Reading →A recent test of web browsers by NSS Labs showed the Microsoft’s much maligned Edge browser beat Chrome and Firefox by wide margins in its ability to detect and block malicious downloads embedded in phishing landing pages and other malware infected web pages. Edge version 38 blocked 96% of malware samples in the form of malicious links and pop-ups, compared with 88% for Chrome version 60 and 70% for ...
Continue Reading →We have covered this issue before, but it bears repeating. The new NIST Digital Identity Guidelines are out, and they have thrown out some old password chestnuts because they did not work, or did not work as intended.
Below are the significant changes to password policy.
Veteran’s day is a remembrance of all U.S. military veterans – past and present. It is celebrated every November 11th, and has been a federal holiday since 1926.
10/31/2017 08:14 AM EDT Original release date: October 31, 2017
Building resilience in critical ...
Continue Reading →Websites are a popular target for cyber-criminals, because they offer a platform for malicious activity. A hijacked website can be used for hosting malware downloads or phishing landing pages. Personal information stored in a website database about site users, including user names and passwords and other personal information can be extracted, decrypted, and sold on the Dark Web.
I have devoted many articles to properly securing WordPress websites. Now there is ...
Continue Reading →If you own a small business and this stuff isn’t keeping you awake, it should be. Thanks to CIT’s new Director of Cybersecurity, Jake DeWoskin, for the list of issues that follows.
Not everyone can hire a cyber security expert. Globally, 70% of employers plan to increase the size of their cybersecurity staff this year. Not only is ...
Continue Reading →People often ask me if it is dangerous to simply open an email, if it is possible to get a malware inflection just by reading an email. My answer has been a qualified “not at this time.” Unfortunately, this is no longer true. It is possible to get a malware installation from the new DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange) exploits reveal by Sophos Labs on October 13 2017. This can be accomplished without an attachment or link if the email is ...
Continue Reading →Happy Halloween! Nothing like a scary story to end the holiday. The scary story in cybersecurity is that Kaspersky anti-malware and security products are in league with the Putin government and the FSB in Russia. The FBI is advising government agencies to drop Kaspersky and find a new endpoint security solution.
Kaspersky Lab is a Russian multinational cybersecurity and anti-virus provider headquartered in Moscow, Russia and operated through a holding company in the United Kingdom. Kaspersky was founded ...
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