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This is Why I am So Adamant About the Importance of Patching

Just ONE day after the announcement of the NINETEEN YEAR OLD bug in the very popular WinRAR utility, Checkpoint Software found examples of it being exploited in the wild.  Given that the vast majority of the 500 million copies  will likely NEVER be patched and the fact that the bug allows the hacker to take […]

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Linkedin Messaging Used to Target Businesses

Many employees are at least curious about their next job.  That is the basis for this attack. The attacker sends Linkedin direct messages from a  legitimate Linkedin account. If that doesn’t appeal  to the target, the attacker sends emails to the targets business email address suggesting a job offer. The links in the email points […]

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Security News Bites for the Week Ending February 22, 2019

Over 5 Billion Records Exposed in 2018 Risk Based Security is reporting that there were 6,515 publicly reported breaches in 2018 exposing over 5 billion records.  This is a couple hundred breaches less than 2017, but the final numbers are not in yet as breaches continue to be reported. The number of days between discovery […]

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Not a Great Day for One Law Firm, Its Vendor and its Clients

I wrote a while back about hackers that had compromised a law firm and its customer Hiscox insurance – or said differently Hiscox and its vendor.  The law firm was handling claims related to 9/11 (almost 20 years later and still litigating!). A lot of law firms (certainly not all) have not figured out that […]

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When Will Web Developers Learn

Stanford University is considered is fairly good college.  They have some well known grads such as Sergey Brin and Larry Page (Google founders), Herbert Hoover, Peter Thiel (Paypal founder), John Steinbeck and Sandra Day O’Connor. But apparently when it comes to software, they, themselves, are not so good. A little over a year ago they […]

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