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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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The Times They Are A Changing, Part 2

Last week I wrote about 4 different cases where courts are moving in the direction of making it easier for plaintiffs to sue companies in case of a breach. Now we have another situation.  In the past, judges have approved settlements that only made the lawyers rich.  The plaintiffs sometimes got, literally, nothing.  That is […]

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Security News Bites for the Week Ending February 8, 2019

Text Messaging for Two Factor Authentication is Under Attack We have talked on occasion about a basically theoretical attack against text messages as the second factor for authentication.  It is likely that the feds know more than they are telling us about that since the National Institute of Standards and Technology has deprecated the use […]

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