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Self-Service Food Kiosk Vendor Avanti Machines Are Hacked
Avanti Markets, a company whose self-service payment kiosks sit beside shelves of snacks and drinks in thousands of corporate breakrooms across America, has suffered of breach of its internal networks in which hackers were able to push malicious software out to those payment devices, the company has acknowledged.
The FBI Notice for All Business Owners on NotPetya Ransomware
The FBI has released a NEWSFLASH on the NotPetya Ransomware attack which is still spreading online. Summary According to numerous open-source reports, a widespread ransomware campaign is affecting various organizations in the United States, France, India, Russia,...
A new DDOS for Bitcoin Scam is doing the rounds
A new email scam is going round, and it hit our desks this week, so we spoke to the FBI about it and then we get a notice from them about this very scam.
New DDOS for Bitcoin Scam hits our desk, and the FBI knows about it!
There is a new email scam going round, and it hit our desk this week – we spoke with the FBI and then we get a notice from them about it.
Web Host Agrees to Pay more than $1M in Ransomware Attack
Nayana, a South Korean web hosting firm, was hit hard by a ransomware attack earlier this month which hit over 153 of its Linux servers, and impacting over 3,400 websites the company hosts for its business customers. Nayana’s systems are thought to have been hit by a...
ESET Turns 30 Years Old – A Celebration of #ESET30
ESET is 30 years old! https://youtu.be/tmwcZYXTjB0 #ESET30
Learn about Ransomware: how to avoid it, how to deal with it, why training is Key!
With attacks like WannaCry and Xdata making headlines, ransomware is starting to sound like old news. Unfortunately, it’s not. More than 4,000 ransomware attacks have occurred every day since the beginning of 2016. That's a 300 percent increase over 2015, where 1,000...
Private Cloud Drive: Datto Drive Details and Pricing
Do you want a cloud drive of your own? How about a cloud drive you can label to your company identity? Best of all; we'll stand behind you for a 6-month trial of Datto Drive, and it's free to have us set you up with this product: no billing for your...
Kmart Admits Second POS Data Breach in Three Years
Customer credit card information has been hacked from Kmart’s payment system, the company announced in a letter and announcement on their website. The Kmart parent company, Sears Holdings, is currently working with federal authorities to investigate the security...
Almost All Chipotle Mexican Grill Locations Credit Card Terminals Compromised For Several Weeks
Restaurant chain Chipotle Mexican Grill has admitted that customers’ payment card data was stolen by hackers via malware installed at “the vast majority of its more than 2,000 restaurant locations”.
Brooks Brothers reveals details of POS Data Breach
Malware installed at point-of-sale (POS) systems has been stealing credit card data from Brooks Brothers for a year, the clothing giant revealed in a Breach Advisory Notice (PDF). The New York-based clothier and retailer states that it only found out about the...
Apple users advised to update their software now, as new Apple pushes security patches
Apple users must remember that it’s just as important as PC users for them to keep their operating systems, apps and programs patched to protect against vulnerabilities.
Vulnerability CVE-2017-0144 in SMB exploited by WannaCryptor ransomware to spread over LAN
ESET Customer Advisory 2017-0010 May 15, 2017 Severity: Critical On Friday May 12, 2017, massive attacks of Win32/WannaCryptor ransomware were reported worldwide, impacting various institutions, including hospitals, causing disruption of provided services. Of special...
#WannaCry: Microsoft Rolls out a Patch for even End-of-Life Windows Versions
#wannaCry hit hard yesterday - it romped through the internet and the current count we're seeing is more than 99,000 infected machines. That kind of massive infection rate is amazing and scary at the same time. It's so scary, that Microsoft did something amazing;...
Major NHS cyber attack: Doctors Offices and Hospitals Hit by Ransomware
The BBC and other news outlets are reporting that a major incident has been declared after NHS services across England and Scotland were hit by a large-scale cyber-attack. A respected London newspaper is reporting that this appears to be part of a larger cybersecurity attack on Windows system worldwide.
President Trump Signs CyberSecurity Executive Order: Read the Key Points
President Donald Trump has signed a long-awaited executive order that places responsibility for cybersecurity on departmental secretaries & agency directors. It emphasizes the use of risk management throughout the federal government to secure digital assets.
The executive order, signed Thursday by President Trump, calls for the modernizing of federal information technology, read the key points here.
HIPAA: How a Press Release Cost a Hospital $2.4M in Fines
Federal regulators slapped a Houston-based healthcare system with a $2.4 million HIPAA settlement stemming from the disclosure of one patient’s information to the news media without the individual’s consent. Do you think that’s excessive? Read on … the details are quite interesting.
Microsoft Out of Band Update for RCE, Followed by Patch Tuesday
On Monday 8th of May, Microsoft released an unusual 'out of band' update to fix a Remote Code Execution (RCE) bug in their Windows Defender anti-malware solution. The bug was found by Google's Zero day team researchers Tavis Ormandy and Natalie Silvanovich....
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