If you believe all of the news reports, quantum computers are here and can break all of the encryption that we have ever used. A bit hyperbolic. Dorothy Denning, a very well know security researcher who has written 4 books and over 200 articles while teaching at Purdue, Georgetown and the Naval Postgraduate School wrote […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Merry Christmas! The hackers, of course, do not take Christmas off and are working hard to ruin yours. Today’s story is about a very active spam campaign that is disguised as Amazon order confirmations. The first stage of the campaign looks something like this with different subject lines: Notice that you have to click on […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Here is a scary thought: According to research, 59% of employees who leave will steal proprietary data, 20% will sell passwords to an outsider and 44% will do so for $1,000. If you don’t already have a employee termination checklist, consider this the perfect start for that list: Cancel the employee’s accounts. Now that companies […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Patches This Week Microsoft issued an emergency out of band patch for an Internet Explorer zero day bug that affects IE 9, 10 and 11 on Windows 7,8,10 and the related server versions. The bug allows a hacker to remotely execute code by getting a victim to view a web page, HTML document, PDF or […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Many companies do not have adequate cybersecurity protection on their website and systems. Why? Here’s some common misconceptions. It won’t happen to us While some attacks are targeted to particular companies, the overwhelming majority of attacks are targets of opportunity. That means that you are just as likely to be attacked as a Fortune 500 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It seems that the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights is increasing enforcement actions against health care providers and their vendors (known as business associates). While one might have suspected that enforcement actions would be down under this administration, in fact, the opposite is true and fines are up. In […]
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