Application Whitelisting — The Future of Cyber Security After the recent global attacks, WannaCry and NotPetya, application whitelisting has made its way into the news as the future of cyber security. First, CSO Online featured a piece on dynamic whitelisting capabilities. Maria Korolov, the author of the article stated, “We are in an age of […]
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Impact Still Felt, A Month After Ransomware Attack KQED, the largest radio station in San Francisco is still struggling to get back to day-to-day operations after ransomware took down their computers in mid-June. Tech Talk first reported the attack on June 17th, just two days after the ransomware hit. The station’s streaming services were pushed
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Does Your OS Need To Be Updated? It has always been important to ensure your operating system is up to date. However, the last two global cyber attacks have shed new light on the importance of doing so. Both WannaCry and NotPetya exploited vulnerabilities within the Windows operating system, which allowed the cyber criminals to
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Are Cyber Security Operations More Difficult Now? A new study shared by CSO Online, reported over 70% of IT pros and cyber security experts believe cyber security operations are more difficult now than they were two years ago. Although this may not be surprising to some, others may find it debatable. Ransomware has taken the
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Caro Medical Facilities Paralyzed by Ransomware Three medical facilities, all tied to the Caro Community Hospital were infected with ransomware on July 5, 2017. According to WNEM, the Caro Community Hospital, Caro Medical Clinic and the Caro Quick Care were impacted by the ransomware that hit the Caro Community Hospital’s database. Once aware of the attack,
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Russian Hackers Believed to Cause Major Threat It is believed, Russian hackers are behind the recent breach of the UK national power grid. Although, no outages were reported, there are major concerns the hackers took critical information to implement a future attack. Without knowing what information, if any, was taken, it is difficult to determine
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Cyber Criminals Take Down Canadian Company Last weekend, and unnamed Canadian firm was hit with ransomware. IT World Canada reported, the ransomware was able to infiltrate the system by worming its way through vulnerabilities found in the company’s Windows operating system. The malicious software took down the company’s databases and wiped out all of their
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LeakerLocker Doesn’t Encrypt… The new ransomware, LeakerLocker, is taking a different approach to exploiting their victims. Instead of targeting PCs, LeakerLocker focuses on smart phones. Within the device, they then create an unauthorized copy of the user’s pictures, videos and browsing history. They then, threaten to share all of this information with every person in
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With the growing cyber security threats, a misconception has established — if users spend more money on security they’ll get better protection. Wrong. Regardless of how much money users spend on protection they could still be infected unless they find the right protection. But how do they do that? Focusing on Detection Rates If users
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U.S. Government Using Kaspersky Labs As early as 2008, Russian-based antivirus company, Kaspersky Labs, has been used on U.S. government devices. However, with the rising concern of ties between Kaspersky Labs and the Russian government, the United States Congress is taking major steps to prevent the use of Kaspersky on government devices. In May of
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