Another day, another healthcare ransomware attack. Erie County Medical Center and Terrace View long term care in Buffalo, New York have been dealing with a ransomware attack for about 10 days now. On April 9th, a Sunday, the computers got hit by what they are only calling a virus, but according to someone I talked […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The BankBot trojan is managing to keep Google Engineers on their toes. The trojan sits, literally, on top of existing banking apps and captures your user name and password. The initial target was Russian banks. Then it was “improved” to include UK, Austria, Germany and Turkey. Who knows what the next version will target. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]37 billion dollars. Is that enough reason? As health premiums increase, more people, especially healthy ones, are moving to high deductible health plans (HDHPs). A feature of all HDHPs is the option to create a health savings account (HSA). HSAs are tax advantaged in several ways, so most people who have HDHPs also have HSAs. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]When your Internet connected baby monitor fails you probably whine. You may complain to the manufacturer or the store where you bought it. Or, you may just buy a new one. But if that IoT device is your car, well, that could be a bit more complicated. If you buy a used car and the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This week Microsoft patched a zero day bug that affected Microsoft Word users. Microsoft was alerted to the bug by the FireEye security firm several months ago. What we did not know until today is that this bug was being exploited for at least several months. WHO was exploiting it is less clear because hackers […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Permanent. As in dead. Researchers at Radware have discovered malware in the wild that seems to be a variant of the Mirai botnet from a few months ago. Like Mirai, it goes after poorly secured Linux based network devices like routers. Only this time, when it finds one, it kills it. As in dead. As […]
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