Apple is no longer supporting the video playing application QuickTime for Windows. If you still have it installed, you should uninstall it immediately. At least two Zero Day Vulnerabilities exist…
Greg Edwards
With the Dyre Banking Trojan going silent or being completely shut down in early 2016, we shouldn’t be surprised that other banking Trojans have emerged. Android/Spy.Agent.SI and GozNym have been the…
Ransomware: The Threat is Real
2016 will be remembered as the year of Ransomware. We have already seen two major hospitals literally shut down for days by cyber criminals that held their data hostage, including patient records.…
Another Hospital Becomes Victim of Ransomware
A little over a month after Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center became the victim of a ransomware attack, Methodist Hospital in Henderson, Kentucky has issued an “internal state of emergency” to…
Top 4 No-Cost Ways to Secure Your Network
Cyber criminals go after the easiest targets. Make your system as hard of a target as possible with these easy to implement suggestions. The list below assumes you have a firewall and Anti-Virus (AV)…
The Absolute Worst Way to Repair Your Reputation After a Hack
Vtech was hacked in December 2015 by a group claiming they wanted to teach the company a lesson. The “data” gathered in the hack included photos and voice recordings from Vtech devices of 6.4 million…
Dyre Circumstances
If you read this blog regularly, you’ve seen a few posts which mention ‘software vulnerabilities’, especially on browsers. We all take browsers for granted and use them every day for social…
Cyber Liability Insurance: Read the Fine Print
Ameriforge Group Inc. has recently filed a lawsuit against their cyber insurance provider, Federal Insurance Co., for refusing to cover a $480,000 loss following an email scam that impersonated the…
Passwords, Passwords, Everywhere
SplashData’s, annual review of passwords, “Worst Passwords 2015”, has identified the most commonly used passwords. The list is shameful. After over 20 years of using the Internet and over 50 years of…