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The 10 Worst Passwords Used By Sports Fans
Technology companies, banks, websites and security researchers have been trying for a while now to kill the password. The front-runner in the technology race to replace passwords completely, is biometric authentication, with many smartphones giving you the option to...
MoneyTree Falls for SpearPhishing Scam
Employees of payday lending company Moneytree are used to taking the personal information of customers in exchange for short-term cash infusions. Some of those workers recently found themselves on the other side of the fence after someone at the company fell for the...
SOPHOS Spokesman James Lyne Makes Appearance on TV
SOPHOS Spokesman James Lyne makes a small appearance on TV this week during a John Oliver segment explaining the Apple vs FBI on iPhone Encryption legal battle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsjZ2r9Ygzw We've met James Lyne - and he's a thoroughly good egg - and...
Ottawa Hospital Computers Infected by Ransomware
The Ottawa Hospital has confirmed its computer network was infected with ransomware this week, as four of its 9,800 machines were affected. In another Medical Ransomware scenario, the healthcare industry has once again been hit by encryption of files and demands for...
How a stolen wallet led to the Victim’s Arrest
The first things to note about this cautionary tale are: the victim was an InfoSec Professional the crimes happened here in Colorado despite being a security professional, a lapse in physical security led to the victim being burglarized and later arrested The original...
Emergency Flash Update Just 2 Days After Regular Update
Just two days after this month's Adobe Patch Tuesday, the company published an emergency fix for Flash. Dubbed APSB16-08, the update didn’t make it out on Tuesday, but it fixes 23 CVE-labelled vulnerabilities, so make sure you don’t miss it when you roll out updates...
Android Flash Banker Trojan ByPasses 2FA
Active users of mobile banking apps should be aware of a new Android banking trojan campaign targeting customers of large banks in Australia, New Zealand and Turkey. The banking malware, detected by ESET security products as Android/Spy.Agent.SI, can steal login...
More Companies Caught By Phishing Attacks
More companies have been caught in phishing scams this tax season. The security company SOPHOS reported in its blog today, that more companies have fallen for the same phishing scams which caught the company 'SnapChat'. Cybercriminals are targeting companies with...
First Macintosh ransomware: KeRanger, spread via Transmission app
New ransomware infecting Apple OS X surfaced on March 4th 2016, with the emergence of KeRanger. The first inkling of trouble came at the weekend. Users of Transmission – a BitTorrent client widely used on OS X – might have noticed the following warning: Figure 1 – The...
Ray Tomlinson: Inventor of Email Dead at 74
Ray Tomlinson, the inventor of email and the man who picked the @ symbol for addresses, has died aged 74. "A true technology pioneer, Ray was the man who brought us email in the early days of networked computers," Raytheon spokesperson Mike Doble said in a statement....
IRS Alerts Payroll and HR Professionals to Phishing Scheme Involving W-2s
WASHINGTON: The Internal Revenue Service today issued an alert to payroll and human resources professionals to beware of an emerging phishing email scheme that purports to be from company executives and requests personal information on employees. The IRS has learned...
West African Security Team: You Are In Trouble.
Nigerian Email Scams, sometimes known as 419 Scams (after the international phone code for Nigeria) are nothing new. They often purport to come from some wealthy individual who has left you some vast fortune in the form of an inheritance - of course, they're entirely...
Sophos XG Firewall: Security Heartbeat Explained
The Sophos nextGen Firewalls are now here - using the 'Security Heartbeat' to integrate with Endpoint Protection, a Sophos XG Series Firewall and Sophos Cloud Enpoint Protection can protect your IT Systems in a more complete and integrated manner:...
SnapChat Data Breach – Take a Lesson From Their Mistake
The disappearing message app 'SnapChat' is famous for the so-called 'anonymity', which has famously been caught using screen capture and used to embarrass or blackmail those who used the service. Over the weekend, it was announced that one of their staff fell victim...
Locky Ransomware: What You Need To Know
While the name 'locky' seems like a rather benign or cheerful name for a ransomware threat, the malware itself is no joke. This particular threat is so named because it renames all your files with a '.locky' file extension - after it encrypts them so they are unable...
Computer Security Solutions Joins An Elite Club
We are very pleased to announce that with immediate effect, Computer Security Solutions is now part of an elite group of ESET VARs - having been upgraded to the coveted ESET Platinum Partner What does this mean to you? It means we have on-staff ESET® Certified...
Insider Threats Are The Biggest Threat to InfoSec
In a research survey by Balabit, the most common method of entry into an organization is ... Insider Access. Balabit surveyed whether IT professionals consider the outsider or insider threats more risky - noted that those attacks that are started from outside by...
Critical fixes for Windows, Java and Flash
Windows users and those with Adobe Flash Player and/or Java installed, it's time to update again! Microsoft just released 13 updates to address more than three dozen unique security vulnerabilities. Adobe issued security fixes for Flash Player that plugs at least 22...
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