The Kelihos Botnet seems like a cat with 9 lives. It was first discovered in December, 2010 and taken down by Microsoft in September 2011. It infected about 45,000 computers. In January 2012, a new version appeared. It was taken down in March 2012 when several private companies managed to “sink hole” the malware. Sink […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Microsoft will be releasing a patch tomorrow that closes a hole in Word that allows an attacker to execute code of the attacker’s choice in the victim’s computer, even if it is a fully patched Windows 10 PC and the user doesn’t have to enable macros or do anything after opening the attachment in the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For anyone who has filled out the federal student financial aid form called FAFSA, they know it is a pretty daunting task. Well now it has become a bit more daunting. Kind of like the problem the IRS had a few years ago with the tax transcript retrieval tool where hackers used the tool to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Microsoft has been, ever since Windows 10 was released, on a race to collect more and more data on how you as a user do things. While users have complained, Microsoft remained steadfast and not only did not change its habits, but also remained pretty quiet as to what data they were collecting. Then the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A few short items today. First, Lastpass, one of the two password managers that I like (the other is Keepass) has been hit with three different security bugs in the last couple of weeks. This is due to the fact that Google Project Zero security researcher Tavis Ormandy has put Lastpass in his sights. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Evan Schuman wrote an opinion piece in Computerworld yesterday that I found very interesting. Neimans suffered a credit card breach in 2013 that would be considered small by today’s standards. Initially they reported that a million cards were compromised; later that number was reduced to about 375,000. About 9,000 of those cards were used for […]
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