May 10, 2016 | Data Breaches, General Security, Sophos
In the Sophos Blog – Naked Security – it has been reported that Google employee data was breached by being inadvertently emailed to the wrong client by a benefits company. Did you know that a UTM can detect data-loss? Someone working at the third-party...
May 9, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, General Security, Malware and Exploits
FBI: No, do not pay ransomware extortionists By Graham Cluley The roll call of organizations hit by ransomware attacks is depressingly long – hospitals, government departments, school districts, banks, businesses small and large… even law enforcement agencies haven’t...
May 9, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches
Reported late last week was an article that exposed a data-loss (breach) where Cyber Criminals stole W-2s from the Credit Bureau Equifax. We will be referring to this as the ‘Equifax Breach’ here on out. So far, the only place we have been able to find...
May 5, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches, General Security
Reuters has revealed in a recent article that US security company Hold Security has obtained from a hacker nicknamed ‘the collector’ a list of 272 millions email addresses and passwords, mainly from Gmail and mail.ru, Yahoo! and Microsoft. Reuters spoke...
May 2, 2016 | ESET Protection Products + News, Malware and Exploits
“The USB Thief is, in many aspects different from the more common malware types that we’re used to seeing flooding the internet,” Mr. Gardoň notes. “This one uses only USB devices for propagation, and it does not leave any evidence on the compromised computer. Its...
