Administrator Accounts

April 2, 2015 mitch tanenbaum Leave a comment

UPDATE: For those of you who are Mac users and laughing at the poor Windows users, this affects you too. The Rootpipe malware silently escalated its privileges to your maximum privileges to launch an attack on your system. Apple just recently fixed this, but ONLY FOR THE CURRENT VERSION OF OSx – apparently, it was […]

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Breach, Hacks, Uncategorized

An Admin’s Worst Nightmare (AKA Cryptowall Gotcha)

November 4, 2014 CyberCecurity

Sometimes not using best practices gets us. Other times it is fatal. Check out this article about an admin who had his (or her) entire universe fall down around his/her ankles. The article shows how, in this case, not following best practices was more than a little inconvenient. The admin was reading his email, apparently […]

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