A new form of malware has been discovered, and it provides a scary glimpse into future attacks… A successor to Mirai has been found, called Linux/IRCTelnet is putting the Internet of Things (IoT) devices at risk. At this time it is unknown how successful the malware is against our IoT devices. However, it most certainly shows […]
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Voter Booth (In)Security On October 12, 2016, we asked you how secure you thought voter booths were. A study at the time showed 95% of IT Pros expressing concern over voter booth security. As of today, 447 individuals completed the poll posted below. The current statistics have shown 79% of individuals question the security of
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One of the current tactics ransomware authors are using to infect your network, is to send email attachments containing malicious scripts. These scripts are often VBScript (.vbs), Windows Script Files (wsf), or JavaScript (.js) files, and when executed, will download a DLL or EXE to spawn the infection. An example JavaScript which downloads and executes
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Hackers are currently targeting business of all sizes in the latest round of phishing campaigns. The way the social engineering attack works is emails are sent to employees with PDF attachments, claiming to have “secure or protected documentations”. Unlike many cases in the past, these PDFs do not have malware embedded in them. Instead, they
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Malware Progression Malware, or malicious software, has been around far longer than most probably know. One of the first reported cases of malware was in 1988 with the Morris worm. The author of the Morris worm denied malicious intent when distributing the malware. According to the author, it was merely a test to determine the
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MediaPro recently conducted a survey focusing on cyber security, which included eight specific security scenarios. The survey was completed by 1,000 U.S. employees. After completion of the survey, it was determined only 12% of the respondents have enough cyber security awareness to prevent privacy issues or a cyber attack. It was also determined, based on the
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In 1995, Windows 95 operating system came out with 32-bit as a replacement for the 16-bit processing. In the early 2000’s Microsoft introduced a version of XP operating system that was designed to run using the Intel Itanium 64-bit processor. All the versions of Microsoft’s operating systems since then have been available in both 32-bit
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In the wake of the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack last week on the Internet performance management company, Dyn, we’ve learned of some unsettling security vulnerabilities for millions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices. It was discovered the DDoS attack utilized the Mirai botnet to hack thousands of IoT devices and to take down
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New malware claims voters must pay $50, or their vote won’t count in November’s election… Malware writers exploit trending news. It is easily one of the most successful ways for them to gain access to your system. Many times they will claim to have breaking news on a celebrity death or divorce. This latest form
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Hackers are now using advanced methods to distribute malware… Hackers have found new ways to copy notifications from what users would consider safe programs. The latest example of this is the blue screen of death (BSoD) that appears after users attempt to download a fraudulent version of Microsoft Security Essentials. Microsoft does have a BSoD alert that
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