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CyberSecurity Tips you Need This Holiday and Christmas Season
In a 6-part post, we'll be giving you the best of our Christmas CyberSecurity Tips you need to stay safe this Christmas or Holiday season. Regardless of whether you celebrate Christmas, Hannukah, Festivus, Hogswatch or simply nothing at all - we hope you stay safe in...
Third ‘JPMorgan hacker’ arrested as he arrived at JFK
The third and final JPMorgan Hacker, Joshua Samuel Aaron, who was one of many facing charges relating to the hefty 2014 JPMorgan data breach, was arrested as he arrived at JFK Airport in New York City this week. Aaron, aka “Mike Shields,” was one of three men indicted...
Yahoo Data Breach: What to do now
As may have heard by now, Yahoo says it suffered a massive data breach that compromised 1bn accounts. The breach, dated back to 2013, and is separate from another disclosed in September, in which 500m user accounts were compromised. Data breaches are seemingly...
MacOS Gets Critical Updates Including Drive-by Malware Infection Fix
The update includes numerous critical bug fixes for holes in system components from Apache, the web server that’s included on every Macbook, to syslog, a core utility that collects messages, errors, and warnings from the rest of the system.
Yahoo Says 1 Billion User Accounts Were Hacked
Yahoo has discovered a 3-year-old security breach that enabled a hacker to compromise more than 1 billion user accounts, breaking the company’s own humiliating record for the biggest security breach in history.
Flash + Firefox More patches and Updates issued – Carry on Updating…
We had a fairly busy Patch Tuesday and we're learning of even more patches and updates that came out yesterday, so the message is 'Carry On Updating'. If you don't know the work of the team who worked on the 'Carry On' franchise of files from the 60's and 70's, then...
Quest Diagnostics says personal health information of 34,000 customers hacked
NEW YORK -- Medical laboratory operator Quest Diagnostics Inc. says a hack of an internet application on its network has exposed the personal health information of about 34,000 people. The Madison, New Jersey-based company says “an unauthorized third party” on Nov. 26...
December 2016 Patch Tuesday from Microsoft Includes Zero-Day
Microsoft’s December 2016 Patch Tuesday includes 12 patches, 6 of which are Critical, of the type which could allow Remote Code Execution (RCE). These are the most important patches and should be applied as quickly as possible.
Apple iOS 10.2 ships with major bug fixes
Apple just released iOS 10.2, the latest upgrade for its iDevices. Lots of the articles you may have seen so far talk about the new features that were introduced, listed by Apple on the Software Update screen as follows: So, there’s a “new and unified experience for...
Train your users and train your helpdesk staff – never stop training!
This blog entry is republished here as a training tool - full credit for this article goes to Jame Dupree: Wikileaks reveals email used to hack Podesta Tucked away in the twenty-first day of email releases from a top aide to Hillary Clinton today was the email that...
Netgear routers have gaping remote access security hole
Netgear has just acknowledged an very embarrassing security bug that exists in a number of its home routers, probably including at a minimum the R6400, R7000 and R8000 models of their latest home routers. The bug is quite easy to explain, and it has been officially...
Celebgate Hacker who stole celebrity emails gets five years in prison
This week, the 24-year-old hacker Alonzo Knowles was sentenced to five years in prison after being found guilty in a case involving the hacking of female celebrities’ online accounts. Knowles didn’t stop at stealing what he found in the hacked accounts. He attempted...
Rogue admin jailed after taking down former employer’s network
In what most employers would consider a 'nightmare scenario' an ex-employee took down the network of an ISP and caused them to be offline for a week. This employee was finally sentenced this week to 2 years in prison and fined $26,000 for the incident in June 2010...
Dailymotion hacked, millions of user accounts exposed
More than 87 Million accounts associated with video-sharing site Dailymotion, one of the biggest video platforms in the world, have been stolen in another "mega-breach". An unknown hacker has extracted all 87.6 million email addresses and usernames from the company's...
Android ransomware spreads further, with new methods in its toolbox
Ransomware seems to have maintained its attractiveness among cybercriminals, steadily growing on multiple operating system platforms – including mobile since 2014. Android users have been targeted by various versions of this extorting malware, most frequently by the...
Loose Lips Sink Careers, Lives and Possibly a Company?
We first met the PacketSled name through a mutual CyberSecurity professional - we watched them as they progressed from startup to company making moves into the area of deep packet inspection and traffic analysis areas, and watched with interest as the company made...
‘Avalanche’ Global Fraud Ring Dismantled
In an 'unprecedented global law enforcement response' to cybercrime, federal investigators in the United States, United Kingdom and Europe have today announced that they have dismantled a sprawling cybercrime machine known as “Avalanche” — a distributed, cloud-hosting...
2016 Q4 Carbonite E2 Appliance – Save Up To $500!
During Q4 of 2016 we have a special on Carbonite E2 Appliances - both the 500Gb and 1Tb versions - save up to $500 immediately. *Note: E2 Appliance Discounts ONLY apply...
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