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New Malware Inventories Your Home Network Then Deletes Itself

Trend Micro has identified a new piece of malware (see article) that attempts to connect to your home router using default userids and passwords for a number of home router vendors.  It tries userids like admin, guest, root and user and passwords like admin, password and 12345678. The malware, named VICEPASS, scans for devices and […]

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Simple Advice For Improving Your CyberSecurity Hygiene

While tips and tricks won’t make your organization bulletproof, it will help make you bullet resistant.  Here is a list from Boston Business News that is simple and right on. 1. IT Risk Assessment.  You MUST start with a risk assessment and if you are up for it, I would recommend a business risk assessment. […]

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A Different Perspective On Lenovo – It Is A Supply Chain Problem

While everyone is off beating up Lenovo and Lenovo, in turn, is beating up Komodia, I suggest everyone is missing the real problem. First of all, to make sure that no one is confused, this problem is not limited to Lenovo consumer laptops.  Komodia has over a hundred customers developing software, all of which put […]

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Dentists (and Doctors) A Target For Cyber Criminals

DentistryIQ, a web site for dental professionals ran a piece last week talking about dentists (and while the article didn’t talk about it, doctors as well) being a target for cyber criminals (see article). If you think about it, it makes a lot of sense.  Think about all the non public personal information that a […]

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