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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Hacks, Security Practices, Uncategorized

Ransonware Going After Small Business and Gamers

March 17, 2015 mitch tanenbaum Leave a comment

Dark Reading is reporting that due to the success of Ransomware, the sophistication of the attacks is growing. As a reminder, ransomware infects a computer and encrypts the files on it. If you pay the ransom, the attacker will usually give you the key to decrypt your files. Ransonware is not very particular and can […]

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