A post about an alert I received first from AlienVault, and then from everybody. There is a new crypto-ransomware variant called Wanna Cry that is taking advantage of a recent Microsoft vulnerability that was patched back on March 14. If your computers have not been updated with MS17-010, then those computers are vulnerable. Microsoft considers this vulnerability significant enough to release it for Windows XP, even though official support ended over two ...
If you are reading this and don’t have a card and flowers already – you may be too late. 
The average number of days between a network intrusion and it’s detection by the victim is around 200 days, which is at least 199 days too long. Sooner or later your company will suffer an network intrusion, computer incident, or data breach, in spite of your best efforts to prevent it. The goal is to shorten the time between intrusion and detection.
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We have reported a few times about the tech support scammers who use cold-calling phone lists or browser pop-ups with 800 number “support” lines to trick people into paying $300 or more for “malware removal” and other services that the computer doesn’t need. And the pop-ups can be scary and convincing as in the example image.
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Research firm IOActive recently released a an article that revealed some serious security deficiencies on popular Linksys Smart Wi-Fi products. They have notified Linksys, and Linksys is working on the firmware upgrades that will be necessary to fix these issue, and they have issued a security advisory.
Among the vulnerabilities discovered:
Happy World Password Day. I have been following the progress that NIST is making in formulating new standards for user authentication. Something I found surprising was that NIST is not recommending using biometrics as a form of authentication. The two main reasons are that biometrics, such as fingerprints, iris scans, and voice recognition, are not a secret. For instance, you leave your fingerprints behind everywhere you touch ...
Back in December we wrote about FBI Operation Hard Copy in order to warn our readers about telemarketing lottery scams and how they work. Recently, the FBI reported that one of the people arrested in that operation had plead guilty to one count of wire fraud.
According to the FBI:
Continue Reading →Ronald John Mendleski, 72, of Bokeelia, Florida, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud before U. S. Magistrate ...
I received an email from Natasha Wentz at MakeAWebSiteHub.com. She had seen my earlier article on securing WordPress, and asked to be added to the resource list. I took a look at the article, and decided that it was too good to bury in a year-old post, and I offered to write this post to feature their article.
Big Ben has been keeping time since May 31, 1859 and is accurate to within 2 seconds per week. This YouTube video shows how they keep Big Ben on time. More on Wikipedia. Thanks to my Uncle Ron for this piece.
