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]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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
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