Watch Out For HawkEye

hawkeyeWe haven’t seen macro viruses for a while, but they are back. HawkEye a new variant of the resurgent use of unpatched vulnerabilities in Microsoft Word and other office documents.   Using macros, written in Visual Basic, attackers are using Word document attachments to run code on victim computers.

Last week we wrote about the Locky ransomware exploit that encrypts your data ...

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Who Killed Dyre Wolf? The Russians?

Bank-trojanDyre Wolf is one version in the family of banking Trojans that started with Zeus and NeverQuest, and now includes Dridex, SpyEye, Shylock,Shifu, Gozi, and Tinba.  Banking Trojans are designed to sit unnoticed on your computer, and to capture your banking and financial login credentials and send them to criminals who use the information to empty your accounts.  They are among the worst exploits that can happen to you, followed closely ...

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Crypto-Ransomware Round-Up

cryptolockerSome of the nastiest exploits going around are the many variants of the CryptoLocker and CryptoWall malware that encrypt all your personal files and hold them for ransom.  Payment in bitcoin is required, in amounts starting at $200 and ranging upward to the $17,000 (400 BTC) that Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital just paid to unlock their files.  Or even more.  The amount will be whatever the attackers think they can extract from the victim.

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WordPress Security Learning Center

WordPresslogoLast Friday we dove down the WordPress Security bunny hole to chase the Aethera botnet and the other attack platform that WordFence reported.  Today we are looking a their new WordPress Security Learning Center.

If you are a developer or security professional, you should check this site out, and take the time to fit the classes into your schedule.  If you are ...

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Speaking At New Business Minnesota Startup Meetup

I will be one of the featured presenters at Patrick Boulay’s New Business Minnesota Startup Meetup on Wednesday March 23.  The event runs from 3 pm to 5 pm, and there will be open networking following the speakers.  You can register for this event on Meetup.

You can check out my article in the January edition of New Business Minnesota, titled Cyber Criminals Put Every Business at Risk here.

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Creator of email dies at age 74

ray-tomlinson-colorWe are to the point now where the men and women who were involved with the beginnings of the Internet are starting to pass away.  Saturday, It was Ray Tomlinson, who invented email.  We was the one who decided to use the @ sign in the email address to separate the user name portion from the domain name portion of the ...

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