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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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 ...
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.The file type used by Windows 10’s settings page can be used to trick Windows into running files it’s supposed to block.
87% of companies experienced ...
Continue Reading →Bad actors are using compromised WordPress.com accounts and the popular Jetpack plugin to add a malicious plug-in of their own that turns compromised websites into a vehicle for perpetrating a fake tech support scam. Attackers are using stolen user names and passwords from other breaches and trying these credentials on WordPress.com to find accounts. They are even searching whois records for website domain names registered with the same email account as the stolen user name.
There has been a new WordPress vulnerability discovered that can give an attacker the ability to delete files on the web server and take control of your web site. This was reported on the WordFence blog on June 27th.
This vulnerability applies to anyone logged in to a WordPress website with user credentials of Author, Editor, or Administrator. These roles ...
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Have you ever wondered what happens to the location information your smartphone is collecting about you? Who has access to that information, and for what purpose? As it turns out, as told in a recent report by Brian Krebs, this information is available to pretty much anybody.
A related article in Sophos’ Naked Security blog pointed to a ...
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This week we have been investigating browser hacking, or the inadvertent disclosure of personal information that is saved and stored by your browser. Today we will be showing several actions you can take to keep your information private.
The best way to protect yourself from a remote attacker is to prevent the remote access malware needed to access your computer from ...
Continue Reading →In our last post, we discovered the trove of personal information that our web browser saves automatically, in the form of cookies, temporary Internet files, code snippets, and stored passwords. Today we learn how an attacker could use this information in further exploits against you.
Using the information stored in your browser, an attacker can build a detailed ...
Continue Reading →Did you know that web browsers such as Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer save a lot of personal information that a cyber-attacker could us as research to build a web dossier about you, your likes, and your habits? A personal dossier that could be used for a deeper attack?
Did you know that web browsers store parts of web ...
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