Microsoft has released plans to end support for Windows 7 on January 14, 2020. What Does this Mean? The end of life (EOL) of Windows 7 means Microsoft will no longer provide any security patches, software updates, or customer support to Windows 7 operating system (OS) users. Fortunately, users have plenty of time to update […]
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Hackers Find Loopholes to Infect Android Devices Hackers have been getting better and better at avoiding detection by traditional antivirus methods. However, now in an attempt to infect mobile devices through the Google Play Store, cyber criminals have gone beyond their traditional means of avoidance. With traditional blacklist antivirus solutions, hackers just need to develop
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The Public – Completely Desensitized to Breaches Over the weekend, I came across this article, How to Stop Worrying About Every “Mega” Password Breach That Comes Along. Now, to be fair, if users actually read the article — it’s not as bad as the title depicts. But in a world where people read titles and maybe a
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Another Year, Another Breach — and this one is major… It’s January 18, 2019 — not even a full month into a new year, and a major data breach has been reported, exposing a total of 2.7 billion different email and password combinations. The data set breached, deemed “Collection #1”, includes over 772 million email
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Everyone loves online shopping, it’s the easiest way to order everything you need (and don’t need) from the comfort of your couch. But it was only a matter of time until cyber criminals turned the wonderful Amazon order receipt into a scam.
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With the U.S. government shutdown in its 25th day, additional repercussions have surfaced which may hinder the public’s cyber security. Due to the shutdown of the U.S. government, all nonessential government tasks are being foregone, including the renewal of TLS certificates. TLS certificates are used by any website that communicates over an encrypted HTTPS connection. This
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Ryuk, the latest ransomware variant that has taken the world by storm, has been targeting victims that promise big paydays. This is the same ransomware strain that hit Tribune Publishing in December of 2018, leaving the distribution of multiple major newspapers, like the L.A. Times and Chicago Tribune, at a standstill. This is just one
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Texan Town Suffers Ransomware Attack The City of Del Rio, Texas was infected with ransomware on January 10, 2018. This cyber attack led to servers at City Hall being disabled and all city departments losing internet access. This left employees unable to log into the systems, meaning all electronic services were at a standstill. Fortunately, city employees
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St. Vincent Pallotti High School, located in Laurel, Maryland is taking cyber security prevention seriously with the deployment of PC Matic Pro’s application whitelist technology. Prior to the switch, the school was using Bitdefender, which used a traditional blacklist methodology to identify malware threats. School officials began to understand, this level of protection was not
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Ransomware Takes Down Connecticut School in 2019’s First Attack… On January 4, 2019, ransomware hit Bridgeport Public Schools in Connecticut, making it the first publicly known ransomware attack of the new year. The exact ransomware variant is unknown, as is the ransom demand. It’s also unclear if the school decided to pay the hacker’s demands,
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