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Private Cloud Drive: Datto Drive Details and Pricing
Do you want a cloud drive of your own? How about a cloud drive you can label to your company identity? Best of all; we'll stand behind you for a 6-month trial of Datto Drive, and it's free to have us set you up with this product: no billing for your...
Kmart Admits Second POS Data Breach in Three Years
Customer credit card information has been hacked from Kmart’s payment system, the company announced in a letter and announcement on their website. The Kmart parent company, Sears Holdings, is currently working with federal authorities to investigate the security...
Almost All Chipotle Mexican Grill Locations Credit Card Terminals Compromised For Several Weeks
Restaurant chain Chipotle Mexican Grill has admitted that customers’ payment card data was stolen by hackers via malware installed at “the vast majority of its more than 2,000 restaurant locations”.
Brooks Brothers reveals details of POS Data Breach
Malware installed at point-of-sale (POS) systems has been stealing credit card data from Brooks Brothers for a year, the clothing giant revealed in a Breach Advisory Notice (PDF). The New York-based clothier and retailer states that it only found out about the...
Apple users advised to update their software now, as new Apple pushes security patches
Apple users must remember that it’s just as important as PC users for them to keep their operating systems, apps and programs patched to protect against vulnerabilities.
Vulnerability CVE-2017-0144 in SMB exploited by WannaCryptor ransomware to spread over LAN
ESET Customer Advisory 2017-0010 May 15, 2017 Severity: Critical On Friday May 12, 2017, massive attacks of Win32/WannaCryptor ransomware were reported worldwide, impacting various institutions, including hospitals, causing disruption of provided services. Of special...
#WannaCry: Microsoft Rolls out a Patch for even End-of-Life Windows Versions
#wannaCry hit hard yesterday - it romped through the internet and the current count we're seeing is more than 99,000 infected machines. That kind of massive infection rate is amazing and scary at the same time. It's so scary, that Microsoft did something amazing;...
Major NHS cyber attack: Doctors Offices and Hospitals Hit by Ransomware
The BBC and other news outlets are reporting that a major incident has been declared after NHS services across England and Scotland were hit by a large-scale cyber-attack. A respected London newspaper is reporting that this appears to be part of a larger cybersecurity attack on Windows system worldwide.
President Trump Signs CyberSecurity Executive Order: Read the Key Points
President Donald Trump has signed a long-awaited executive order that places responsibility for cybersecurity on departmental secretaries & agency directors. It emphasizes the use of risk management throughout the federal government to secure digital assets.
The executive order, signed Thursday by President Trump, calls for the modernizing of federal information technology, read the key points here.
HIPAA: How a Press Release Cost a Hospital $2.4M in Fines
Federal regulators slapped a Houston-based healthcare system with a $2.4 million HIPAA settlement stemming from the disclosure of one patient’s information to the news media without the individual’s consent. Do you think that’s excessive? Read on … the details are quite interesting.
Microsoft Out of Band Update for RCE, Followed by Patch Tuesday
On Monday 8th of May, Microsoft released an unusual 'out of band' update to fix a Remote Code Execution (RCE) bug in their Windows Defender anti-malware solution. The bug was found by Google's Zero day team researchers Tavis Ormandy and Natalie Silvanovich....
New IoT Botnet Discovered, 120K IP Cameras At Risk of Attack
Security blogs and news sites are reporting that a new Botnet has been discovered. Named Persirai the botnet has a target base of 1,000 different IP camera models. It was discovered by Trend Micro be finding four command and control server and tracking it backwards to...
False positives can be more costly than a malware infection
Poor business decisions can be very costly, especially in cybersecurity, where labeling clean items as malicious, or false positives, can be very damaging. So, how can you simultaneously keep the error rates low, uphold detection rates and keep protection strong? With...
Department of Homeland Security Issues Warning to Healthcare, Government and Business
The US Department of Homeland Security has issued a warning to IT services providers, healthcare organizations and three other business sectors about a sophisticated cyber-attack campaign that has been active since April 2016.
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Snake cyber-espionage malware is ready to bite Mac users
Snake is a fairly complex malware framework used for targeted attacks, or Cyber-espionage, and it’s been found on the Mac running on MacOS X. Snake has been linked with a Russian cybere-spionage group.
Gannett Appears to have been Breached Putting 18,000 Employees At Risk
US Newspaper giant Gannett, owner of the USA Today newspaper (to name just one), has announced through the website of the aforementioned newspaper, that they have been hit by a data-breach as a result of a phishing attack.
Cybercrime is biggest threat to small and medium-size firms ‘by far’
The Federation of Small Business' Home Office & MoJ Policy Unit Chair Richard Parlour laid out just why cyberSecurity is so critical for the SME/SMB sector. The main reason is that 80% of SMEs/SMBs who get hit by a major Cyber Event, will not survive 2 year after the...
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