Middle Managers Too Rushed to Check for Phishing Messages
We have all heard the proverb, "patience is a virtue," and that is also true when, in the course of regular business tasks, we...
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Mozilla and Adobe Release Critical Patches
There are a few patches to address this week. The developer of the browser Firefox released 39 fixes for various vulnerabilities...
New MacKeeper Vulnerability Opens Mac Users Up to File Theft
Ask just about anyone who owns a Mac how secure they feel about the risk of installing malware on their beloved machine and most...
Study Finds Complex Passwords Not So Complex After All
A study by a Texas based information security company has determined that all the chatter about creating complex passwords may...
Hacking Team Hack Results in Release of Zero-Day Exploit
Update 7/20/15 : Microsoft released an emergency security update to patch the vulnerability that was discovered in the aftermath...
Macro Malware Makes a Comeback
Remember the "old" days... way back in the 1990s when the big threat to your computer was a virus that was unleashed when you...
And the Winner in the FI Trojan War Is...
And the winner is.... Dyre Financial Trojan! According to Symantec, it has indeed become one of the biggest threat to "ordinary"...
FCC Proposal Stops Unwanted Calls and Texts but May Also Be Exploited
In 2014, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) received over 215,000 complaints regarding unwanted calls. Many, if not the...
FBI Issues CryptoWall Warning; Costs Victims $18M in Past Year
The FBIs Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has issued a public service announcement warning of continued criminal fraud using...
Exploit Tool Used to Hijack Router DNS Settings for Large Scale Attacks
If you read these articles often, you have heard the term DNS. It is the acronym for Domain Name System and essentially works as...
OPM Breach Growing by the Day - Steps You can take to Protect Your Identity
There have been many discussions recently about the cyber intrusion at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). Unfortunately...
Text Scams that Claim to be from Your FI Steal Personal Info
There have been some rather sophisticated scams floating around, but one making its way now is using a particularly simple method...