October 2020 News & Updates
Executive Summary The US Treasury Department released an interesting advisory earlier this month suggesting they were prepared to file civil charges against the victims of ransomware who pay the ransom…
Read moreInteresting advisory from the Treasury Dept. regarding ransomware
If you are a potential ransomware victim, an insurance company who provides ransomware protection, an IT Services provider or financial institution who may provide services to a ransomware victim, the…
Read moreZoom Outage
We have received a number of reports that Zoom is down. We have looked into the matter and it does appear that Zoom is having problems, it looks like the…
Read moreOpSec is hard. Lessons learned from the Twitter hack arrests.
As many of you may already know, social media platform Twitter was attacked on 15 July 2020 and 130 high-profile accounts were taken over and used in a scam to…
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Adobe issues emergency update to multiple products
Adobe has released emergency updates to address critical vulnerabilities in multiple products including Photoshop, Bridge and Prelude. The vulnerabilities could be used by an attacker to gain access to unpatched…
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Possible Outlook problem with July 2020 Updates
Not much detail (yet) but we just got a notification from AppRiver that they are seeing high call volume regarding Outlook restarting. Below is a link to the issue at…
Read moreExcellent articles / video series from the FTC on protecting Small Business from Cyber Threats
The FTC has released an excellent (and short) video series highlighting some excellent information to help small businesses better understand cyber threats and steps they can take to protect themselves.…
Read moreMicrosoft issues emergency security update
A private security researcher discovered two bugs affecting Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019 that can allow a remote attacker to take remote control of a computer if a user…
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