Hackers Sending Malware Filled USB Sticks in the Mail Old, tried and true techniques continue to work as hackers have been sending malware-filled USB sticks in the mail and UPS to defense, transportation and insurance companies, hoping someone did not do their security awareness training and plugs the drive into their computer. It just shows […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Actually, they just used New York as an example, but the researchers literally melted the copper power lines. Once the power lines were vaporized, well, there was no more power. The good news is that this was just a demonstration, but definitely a scary one. Worse yet. The device the team hacked – it was […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As hackers become smarter, generate more and more effective attacks and users continue to work from almost anywhere, IT teams have to get smarter about effective endpoint security. This is going to take a layered approach. This includes moving towards zero-trust. Here are some recommendations. Signature and heuristic-based detection – this is what most traditional […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Don’t Copy-Paste Commands from a Web Page – You can Get Hacked People often copy-paste data from a website into some other place like a command prompt or another browser window, but a researcher has demonstrated how a malicious website could change the data in the paste buffer, causing you to execute something that you […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Software released by Microsoft and other vendors is digitally signed so that users can validate that it really came from the vendor in question and that it has not been modified since the vendor created it. However, hackers have figured out how to bypass the security provided by Microsoft’s digital signature verification process, allowing them […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Today’s supply chain attack is interesting. I guess I can say that because it didn’t happen to a web site that I own and my information didn’t get stolen. Here is the situation. Many web sites have embedded videos on them. In this case, most of the sites affected were real estate web sites and […]
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