Month: March 2017

By Selena Larson on CNN March, 22, 2017   Use strong passwords and don’t go to sketchy websites, and you’ll protect yourself online, right?   Well… That’s a good start. But it’s not quite that simple.   Full Article     Take a look at the best antivirus, anti-malware, anti-spy, etc. software Powered by WPeMatico

Flaw posed remote code execution risk   28 Mar 2017 at 13:38, John Leyden   Apple has resolved a certification validation vulnerability affecting both macOS and iOS users.   The (CVE-2017-2485) vulnerability posed a remote code execution risk on affected systems, which created a potential mechanism for hackers to craft exploits that pushed malware on… Continue reading Apple squashes cert-handling bug affecting macOS and iOS

Trend Micro CTO suffered fatal heart attack                                       28 Mar 2017 at 15:17, John Leyden   Colleagues and friends are mourning the sudden death of distinguished antivirus industry veteran Raimund Genes last Friday. Genes, 54, chief technology officer at Trend Micro, began as a distributor before joining the antivirus… Continue reading RIP: Antivirus veteran Raimund Genes, 54

March 28, 2017  By Pierluigi Paganini                                              The Cyber Division of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warns the companies in the healthcare industry of FTP attacks.   The Cyber Division of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warns the healthcare industry that malicious actors are actively targeting… Continue reading FBI Cyber Division warns the healthcare industry of FTP attacks

March 28, 2017 by Christopher Boyd   A phishing campaign currently in circulation is attempting to bait World of Warcraft with the promise of free in-game pets. We’ve seen two variations on this so far, and it’s possible there’s more. Both of the below examples lead to the same phishing URL. As great as the… Continue reading World of Warcraft phish campaign lures victims with free pet

  By Samira Sarraf  Mar 27 2017   Many Australian businesses forked out to save their data from CryptoLocker attacks last year. Small businesses reported $1.6 million in losses from scam activities in the first half 2016, according to the ACCC. The consumer watchdog said that most of 2015 scams were aimed at small businesses involved false… Continue reading eNerds build SaaS for CryptoLocker detection and prevention

Apple has a surprise for OS X Yosemite and El Capitan users: A security update.   By Adrian Kingsley-Hughes for Hardware 2.0 | March 27, 2017   Have you been thinking that you’d never see another update for your Mac that’s stuck running OS X Yosemite and El Capitan? Well, Apple has a surprise for… Continue reading Apple pushes security update to OS X Yosemite and El Capitan

Thousands of docs with sensitive data still reachable from search engines, including health data.                              Sean Gallagher – 3/27/2017   On March 25, security researcher Kevin Beaumont discovered something very unfortunate on Docs.com, Microsoft’s free document-sharing site tied to the company’s Office 365 service: its homepage had a search bar. That in itself would… Continue reading Doxed by Microsoft’s Docs.com: Users unwittingly shared sensitive docs publicly

March 27th 2017 By Catalin Cimpanu   A new adware family named Crusader will rewrite tech support phone numbers returned in Google search results, display ads, and show popups pushing tech support scams.   Current versions of Crusaders are installed on victims’ computers via software bundles. Users usually download a free application, whose installer also… Continue reading Adware Replaces Phone Numbers for Security Firms Returned in Search Results

March 27, 2017 by Nathan Collier   BLU manufactured mobile devices have been discovered with preinstalled adware known as Android/Adware.YeMobi.   Behavior of YeMobi   The incriminating behavior of adware YeMobi is its ability to launch the default browser on a mobile device and use it to display ads. There is an unusual element to this… Continue reading Mobile Menace Monday: Preinstalled adware and sometimes worse