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Brewing Up CyberSecurity Solutions at Big Beaver Brewing Co., Loveland CO – November 15th, 2016
Yesterday we held the first of many CyberSecurity education events. We chose Big Beaver Brewing Company in Loveland as the location because Loveland sits well between the cities of Fort Collins, Windsor, Greeley, Johnstown, Berthoud and Longmont. In attendance we...
Massive DDoS attack in Liberia wipes most of country offline
Liberia was hit by a massive DDoS attack, which succeeded in taking most of the country offline. It was revealed that the cause of this is the Mirai botnet, the same system that resulted in the largest DDoS attack yet on Dyn back in October and the attack on...
New Cybersecurity Law in China is Contraversial
China’s government approved a controversial and broad new cybersecurity law aimed at tightening and centralizing state control over the internet, including the role foreign companies play in Chinese cyberspace. The law, passed by the standing committee of China’s...
Northern Lincolnshire NHS Hospital Hit By CryptoWare
Blaming a computer virus outbreak, a hospital system comprising 3 separate hospitals in the United Kingdom was forced to cancel all planned operations and diverted major trauma cases to neighboring facilities this week. The CyberCrime incident came as U.K. leaders...
Bookmaker William Hill website hit with DDoS attack
UK-based bookmaker William Hill has been hit with a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, preventing many of its customers from being able to access its main website. The company had, earlier this week, (November 1st) revealed on social media that its website...
UK and US Governments Invest in CyberSecurity Initiatives
Both the UK and US Governments have committed to investing time, resources and large sums of money into refreshed CyberSecurity initiatives. These new intiatives are a clear sign that our governments are taking CyberSecurity and Cyber-Attacks very seriously indeed....
What is a Botnet?
Perhaps you're wondering - What is a botnet? https://www.youtube.com/embed/s0sgiY93w9c Friday’s massive DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks on major providers of the internet backbone caused massive interruptions for millions of users and prevented...
Webcam firm recalls hackable devices after mighty Mirai botnet attack
Chinese electronic firm XiongMai will recall some of its IoT devices, after claims that they were used to launch a massive denial-of-service attack. The distributed denial-of-service attack targeted domain name service Dyn, who confirmed this weekend in a statement that it was hit by a “sophisticated attack”.
Yesterday’s Dyn DDoS attack may be the way of the future
On Friday (21 October), cyber-criminals mounted a global DDoS attacks on internet services firm Dyn. While it was not immediately clear who was responsible. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation were both said to be...
Netflix Advises Users To Change Password Found in Leak
Netflix has found some of their customers' username+password in data-dumps on the internet - when they found these re-used passwords, they reached out and recommended a password reset. This news was reported by AdWeek, where writer Steve Safran said on Friday that...
Vera Bradley Announces Data Breach at Retail Stores
Vera Bradley, the maker of women’s handbags and accessories, said attackers compromised its payment processing system and were able to steal card data for customers who used cards in the company’s stores from the end of July through late September of this year. It...
Creating a #CyberAware culture in the workplace.
Creating a #CyberAware culture in the workplace... [View the story "Creating a #CyberAware culture in the workplace. " on Storify]
Top tips for staying safe online – 5 Steps to Staying Safe
Staying safe online isn't as difficult as you think... We're often asked by friends and family, what are the top tips for computer safety - and we've distilled our advice down into 5 "top-tips for online safety" - these are those 5-tip: 1: Update, update and update...
Microsoft Update Issued Today – Adobe Does Also
Adobe and Microsoft today each issued updates to fix critical security flaws in their products. Microsoft’s patch bundle for October includes fixes for at least five separate “zero-day” vulnerabilities - dangerous flaws that attackers were already exploiting prior to...
Did Yahoo spy on its users’ emails for the NSA?
Just when Yahoo email users thought they had settled their long-running privacy dispute with the company, Reuter’s Joseph Menn has revealed that those users’ emails weren’t just being scanned to improve targeted advertising: Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom...
Cybercrime in Canada: The impact on SMBs
Cybercrime may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Canada, but these days cybercrime is top of mind for many Canadian small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). In a recent survey of more than 1,000 people working in IT at Canadian companies...
Security fatigue is preventing us from being safe online
Security fatigue is a real thing. The constant barrage of emails and articles about malware, phishing and other malicious attack vectors is turning off those who need to remain vigilant. Researchers have found that we feel overwhelmed at being on constant alert from cyberattacks, so many will ignore the warning signs of a possible attack. Many interviewees said they didn’t think their information was significant enough to be of interest, which caused them to lower their guard regarding cyber-security.
Organizations ‘need to deliver social engineering training’
More focus on how to spot social engineering attacks is needed in organizations, according to an expert. Jenny Radcliffe, who specializes in the “psychology” of this technique, said that organizations now have to move on from social engineering awareness, reported...
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