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Scammers Obtain Thousands of Employee W-2s After Successful Phishing Attack

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Phishing Attack Hits Bloomington Public Schools – Minnesota Star Tribune reported an estimated 2,800 current and former Bloomington Public School employees has their private information stolen after a malicious email scam tricked a school employee to send the information to hackers. The phishing scam requested for all of the 2016 W-2s to be sent to a specific […]

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Application Whitelisting Ranks #1 For Security Essentials

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Application whitelisting has been identified as the top security essential tool by Business IT.  Application whitelisting implements a security method that, if utilized correctly, will only allow trusted programs to run.  Since malware is not a trusted program, the executable will not be allowed to run.  Theoretically. this will eliminate malware infections on PCs that

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75% of Ransomware Developed Has Russian Ties

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Russians Lead In Ransomware Development Russian based security company, Kaspersky, has confirmed 75% of crypto ransomware was developed by Russians or Russian-speaking individuals.  To some, that may be surprising.  For others, it may validate what they’ve assumed all along. According to Computing, there were 47 crypto ransomware variants that were developed by Russians or Russian-speaking individuals in 2016.  All

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Google Finds Themselves In Hot Water After Courts Rule Against Them

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Good Thing Google Has Deep Pockets… The search engine tycoon, Google, was recently ordered to pay $20 million after the courts found they infringed on four different anti-malware patents.  The infringement involved the development of the company’s popular web browser, Chrome. According to The Next Web, the suit originated in 2013 after Alfonso Cioffi and,

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New Malvertising Attacks Can Be Prevented With Adblocking Technology

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Malvertising Takes Advanced Approach Malvertising, or malicious software that is distributed through advertisements, is taking an advanced approach.  According to Lifars, the cyber criminal group AdGholas, have sophisticated their attack approach leaps and bounds. First, their malicious ad does not infect your PC right away.  It is designed to start obtaining data that they can

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More Security Breaches, Why Restaurants Are Becoming The Hacker’s Dream

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You may have heard about the recent security breach that impacted fast food giant, Arby’s.  The hackers were able to gain access to Arby’s systems and obtain an estimated 350,000 credit card numbers from customers who visited the restaurant chain from October 2016 to January 2017.  Last year, Wendy’s, another major fast food chain, was hit with a breach

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Illinois Police Department Corrupted With Ransomware

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The Telegraph recently reported another ransomware attack, this time taking down an Illinois police department.  Roxana Police Department is remaining tight-lipped regarding the issue, but did confirm their systems have been infected with ransomware.  However, here is what we don’t know: When the attack took place How the ransomware got onto the police department’s systems The

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