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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]iOS devices running 14.7 through 15.2 – basically all devices – are subject to a denial of service attack that forces the user to do a factory reset, wiping all of the user’s data. If the user logs in to iCloud to restore the data, the denial of service attack will replay once the data […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]W. Va. Hospital Breach Timeline – Way Too Long The Monongalia Health System was attacked recently and hackers had access to several email accounts, apparently belonging to contractors from May 10 to August 15 or about three months. It took them another 60 days to investigate. They are just not telling us about the breach […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As Americans are quitting their jobs in record numbers this year, is your data going with them? The exodus is being called the great resignation. We (the U.S.) set new monthly records for the number of workers leaving their jobs three times this year. In September, over 4 million workers quit their jobs. If you […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Some people say that common sense isn’t so common anymore. Sometimes the Internet doesn’t seem to have much common sense, so those people might be right. Hopefully most adults can distinguish between smart things to do and not so smart things to do, but not always. Right after Apple and Google split over Google maps […]
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