“Wanna Cry” Ransomware Warning
A dangerous form of malware is circulating across the globe in the form of a PDF email attachment. Users who open the attachment are exposed… Read more »
A dangerous form of malware is circulating across the globe in the form of a PDF email attachment. Users who open the attachment are exposed… Read more »
Yahoo released a statement warning users that over 500 million account credentials – including passwords, telephone numbers, and security questions and answers – were compromised during… Read more »
Dropbox released a statement warning users that 68 million account credentials were compromised during a data breach dating back to 2012. Dropbox has emailed all… Read more »
Lenovo has released a security advisory addressing a vulnerability in its preloaded Accelerator Application software. The vulnerability could be exploited by a “man-in-the-middle” attack, in which… Read more »
BACKGROUND Hackers have bypassed Microsoft’s security patch to address the Sandworm vulnerability in Windows resulting in the company issuing another advisory and warning users of… Read more »
BACKGROUND There is a vulnerability in Adobe Flash that is being exploited in large scale attacks. The vulnerability is being tracked as CVE-2014-0569 (http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-0558) on the Common… Read more »
Please note the following updates to the September 25 post regarding the Bash / Shellshock vulnerability.
Security researchers have recently identified several vulnerabilities in the OpenSSL encryption library in addition to the widely publicized Heartbleed bug (see https://it-security.usc.edu/2014/04/09/openssl-heartbleed-bug for more information… Read more »
On September 17, Microsoft published an emergency security advisory and “Fix it” solution to address a zero-day vulnerability affecting all supported versions of Internet Explorer.… Read more »
Many users have reported receiving the following phish email. If you have received the phish, do not reply, click the link, or supply any login… Read more »