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Cisco Users Being Hacked With Leaked NSA Hacking Tools
The mainstream media is catching on to a post from last month in RedmondMag.com - about Cisco customers being hacked by "NSA Hacking Tools" - or, to put it another way, tools supposedly leaked from NSA hacker toolkits. By Kurt Mackie - 08/19/2016 Cisco this week...
4 Big Security and Privacy Assumptions that Snowden Undermined
Oliver Stone’s movie about Edward Snowden, which opened on Friday, September 16th, 2016, has a lot of people looking back at one of the biggest information security breaches in US history, the one we learned about in June, 2013. That’s when the UK-based Guardian...
Public WiFi – Your WiFi Security Questions Answered
There are expected to be 350 million Wi-Fi hotspots around the world by 2018. While this brings with it a high level of convenience, there are significant security risks as well. With that in mind, we look at the five top questions you should be asking before...
Microsoft Pushes Out Critical Updates For Windows and Internet Explorer
Yesterday Microsoft released some 14 patch bundles to correct at least 50 flaws in various Windows and associated software systems, including a zero-day bug in Internet Explorer. About half of the updates released by Microsoft Tuesday earned the company’s most dire...
Adobe Pushes Out Critical Flash Update
Adobe has today pushed out a critical Flash Update - please install it today. Adobe’s advisory for this Flash Update is here. It brings Flash to v. 23.0.0.162 for Windows and Mac users. If you have Flash installed, you should update or remove Flash as soon as...
Business security: Securing your data weak points
One of the biggest problems to overcome for business security is trying to work out what areas you need to secure: there is no manual to download or “one model fits all”. Securing your business is simply a case of looking at your potential areas for data loss and...
OPM Breach – Congressional Oversight Report Slams OPM Security Blunders
The massive data breach at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) that exposed background investigations and fingerprint data on many millions of Americans was the result of a cascading series of cyber security mistakes by the agency’s senior leadership on down...
WordPress 4.6 Vulnerability – Update Now
WordPress has released an update for the commonly used Content Management System - WordPress 4.6.1 fixed two vulnerabilities detailed in WPScan Vulnerability Database. There are also 15 additional bugs fixed in the WordPress 4.6.1 release as detailed here: Summary...
Google Chrome fixes serious vulnerabilities, thanks to bug fighters
The latest Google Chrome browser update comes with 33 vulnerability patches, including 13 that are high-severity. It’s all thanks to community contributors and bug fighters who submitted fixes for Chrome’s bug bounty program. Many of the vulnerabilities fixed in this...
Patch now! Recent iOS vulnerability affects Macs too
A week ago, Apple pushed out a small but critical security patch for iOS. That update was iOS 9.3.5, and it fixed a trifecta of previously unknown vulnerabilities that had allegedly been combined to produce a megaexploit. (If you have an iDevice, go to Settings |...
CEO fraud: How to stay protected against this modern day deception
By Mark James So, you’re minding your own business working through your day-to-day battle of never-ending emails and sorting through all the stuff you should have finished yesterday. Suddenly, an urgent email drops into your inbox from the boss, asking for an urgent...
Kimpton Hotels Data Breach Confirmed – 60 Kimpton Hotels Affected
Kimpton Hotels and Restaurants has admitted that 60 of their 64 properties were hit by a Payment Card Terminal or Point of Sale Malware infection. The Kimpton Hotel Data Breach affected card processing servers within the Kimpton properties in 60 out of their total 64...
Dropbox Hacked in 2012: More than 68 millions accounts leaked
The hack of Dropbox was actually in 2012, but it is only becoming known now, that the number of affected customers was more than 68 million. Dropbox is quick to reassure customers that none of the accounts were accessed improperly, and that the forced password change...
Opera Sync Databreach Exposes 17M User Credentials
Opera was once a proudly Norwegian browser that was different from the rest in more than just look and feel. Most other browsers used one of three main core components: Microsoft’s, Mozilla’s or WebKit’s. (WebKit originated from Apple but has now diverged into...
More Hotel Data Breaches And Credit Cards Left Online Without Security
Today we learned that two separate hotel chains are warning their customers that they have suffered point-of-sale malware infections that compromised customers' payment card data. Both chains say they were alerted to related card fraud by the U.S. Secret Service and...
Apple iOS 9.3.5 Is Available: This is why you need to update NOW.
Today Apple released iOS 9.3.5, an essential update for all iOS devices, meaning iPhones, iPads and iPods. Apple didn't add any new features as part of this software update, but instead fixed at least one, possibly 3 major security vulnerabilities have been addressed...
Back to School Competition – Share your Safety Tips (Cyber + Otherwise)
Here's the scoop - it's 'back to school' season and that's a time when parents, students, grandparents and more are super busy - but it's a time when we must still remain vigilant to the threats which are all around us. So - while we want you all to remain safe,...
Do your kids know good password hygiene? Here are some rules
Growing up before the age of the internet and social networks has left many older users unprepared for risks looming in the virtual world. From that perspective, today’s kids are lucky, as the best Cyber-Security practices, such as good password hygiene, are at hand....
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