The Zyklon malware has been around since early 2016 and it is a nasty bit of business. It mostly arrives as a zip file (if you are not blocking zip attachments at your inbound mail gateway, you should do that now). Assuming it gets in and the use opens the zip file, it exploits three […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A little over a year ago, the Mirai botnet launched a sustained attack on the servers of the Internet provider Dyn, taking it offline and thereby knocking its customers, including Twitter, the Guardian, Netflix, Reddit, CNN and others, offline. The Mirai botnet was simple – find Internet of Things devices (IoT) that still had their default […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As if it wasn’t already a bad enough month for Intel, it just got a bit worse. This is not related to Spectre or Meltdown; this is an entirely new problem. Intel processors have a remote management engine called Active Management Technology or AMT. This allows corporate administrators to remotely take over those computers to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]NOTE: THE CONTENTS OF THIS POST MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR YOUNGER READERS. A 28 year old Ohio man has been indicted for creating and installing malware on hundreds of Apple Mac and Microsoft Windows computers. The man, Phillip Durachinsky, used the software to spy on people. This includes recording what the camera and microphone […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Update: Apparently if you are running macOS 10.13 and apply the patch to fix the root problem and then upgrade to 10.13.1, that patch gets undone, so you have to reapply the patch. In addition, the patch does not take effect unless you reboot. Just another bit of the mess. The Mac OS has generally […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Researchers have discovered a problem with AD Connect in an Office 365 hybrid AD environment. In this situation, hybrid means both onsite Active Directory and cloud Active Directory. This is the environment that most Office 365 users who federate accounts use. The bug was discovered earlier this month by Preempt, a vendor of cyber security […]
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