The Zyklon malware has been around since early 2016 and it is a nasty bit of business. It mostly arrives as a zip file (if you are not blocking zip attachments at your inbound mail gateway, you should do that now). Assuming it gets in and the use opens the zip file, it exploits three […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Ransomware and hospitals. Not a great combination. The Register is reporting that Hancock Hospital paid ransom attackers $60,000 to get control of their system back. Hancock Health in Indiana was hit with a ransomware attack last week. As the hospital detected “something wrong”, they decided to shut down all hospital systems, all wellness center systems, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Defense contractors are wrestling with new contracting rules that went into place, sort of, as of December 31, 2017, with the requirement to be in compliance with NIST SP 800-171. NIST SP 800-171 defines over 100 cyber security requirements that defense contractors and sub-contractors must comply with. Prime contractors must ensure that their subs are […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google is trying to keep up with the Jones (AKA Micosoft) and is building some security tools for its enterprise customers. Microsoft is way ahead in this area and if Google wants to compete in the enterprise space it needs to offer enterprise class tools. First of all, this only is available to G-Suite Enterprise […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]According to the cyber security firm Trend Micro, the members of the U.S. Senate and their staff could be the next target of the Russian hacking group Fancy Bear – the same group linked to the DNC hack an election meddling across the Middle East and Europe. Trend says that digital breadcrumbs found so far […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A little over a year ago, the Mirai botnet launched a sustained attack on the servers of the Internet provider Dyn, taking it offline and thereby knocking its customers, including Twitter, the Guardian, Netflix, Reddit, CNN and others, offline. The Mirai botnet was simple – find Internet of Things devices (IoT) that still had their default […]
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