Happy Friday the 13th. October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month and this week’s theme is Cybersecurity in the Workplace is Everyone’s Business. Often it is the simple things that work the best. Running automatic Windows and Microsoft updates, and applying updates and patches for Adobe, Apple, Android, and other products often are the best way to close the door on a new exploit or ...
There is more bad news for WordPress website owners and developers. WordFence has found more instances of popular plug-ins being modified to contain malicious software. The three most recent discoveries are:
WordFence had reported earlier about another ...
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October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month and this week’s theme is Cybersecurity in the Workplace is Everyone’s Business.
Has anyone from your company’s IT department asked you to join the cybersecurity staff? No? Well consider yourself invited.
Cybersecurity has become an critically important part of computer and network operations, but frankly, no company can afford to hire all the information security professionals that it needs. And that is if they can find anyone ...
Continue Reading →We have complained about the total lack of security and uncessary data gathering by smart devices for a while. Why does a light bulb need to know my location? It’s great when these tech-nerd issues show up in the mainstream media. A big thanks to Sherman’s Lagoon.
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.09/12/2017 05:26 PM EDT Original release date: September 12, 2017
US-CERT is aware of a collection of Bluetooth vulnerabilities, known as BlueBorne, potentially affecting millions of unpatched mobile phones, computers, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. A remote attacker could exploit several of these vulnerabilities to take ...
Continue Reading →There is a new twist on an old tax scam appearing in email inboxes recently. The new phishing exploit uses both IRS and FBI emblems to scare recipients into provide personal information on a downloadable questionnaire. You can read the official warning here.
I like to remind people that the IRS only communicates with taxpayers by postal mail. Sometimes they might send a US Marshal. And the FBI certainly would not be sending an email when they can ...
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Piriform’s CCleaner is a popular computer cleaning and optimizing product that many people use. I have my doubts about the real effectiveness of these utilities, but many of my clients swear by it. I have used CCleaner myself several times as one of the tools I used to clean up a malware infection.
Recently, the CCleaner software code was modified to include a malicious backdoor. This warning was published earlier in ...
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That’s right, it’s still you. Sorry.
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and this week’s theme is Simple Steps to Online Safety.
The toughest part of cybersecurity is securing the human mind, emotions, behaviors, and responses from the making a decision or taking an action that will open the door for a cyber-attacker. The reality is that it is much easier to secure systems than humans. And unfortunately, humans have been given ...
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