The easiest way for hackers to steal your money is to get you to help them do it. We are seeing attacks where the victim gets a text message supposedly from their bank about a potentially fraudulent transaction and asking the victim if it is legitimate. If the victim answers, the hacker goes into high…
This week’s security news includes: Son of Log4j rears its ugly head; Model warns women to check your belongings after being tracked by Apple AirTag; AMD releases new chip with Microsoft’s Pluton processor; New consumer protection laws in 2022; SonicWall is the most recent vendor to have Y2K22 bug; Over 1,200 man-in-the-middle toolkits available to…
Log4j is a bug in a software library used by millions of programs that seems to defy being fixed. Even though the developers have patched it 4 times in the matter of a week or two, the bugs keep coming. And now we are finding derivatives of the original bug in other pieces of unrelated…
This week’s security news includes: On-premise Microsoft Exchange emergency files for Y2K problem in 2022 Christmas gifts bring security headaches Some users of LastPass password manager receive warning about login attempts The 5 layers of effective endpoint security Duck, Duck Go Log4j patch of the day New York man pleads guilty to $20 million SIM…
In the absence of any meaningful federal privacy law that covers the general population, states are implementing their own privacy laws and they are covering residents of their states without regard to where the data collecting business is. Each state is different, which means more work for businesses as they try to figure out what…
In light of recent events here in Colorado, now would be a good time to make sure you are backing up all of your information. In the case in Colorado, the Marshall fire destroyed over a thousand homes and damaged several hundred others in the middle of suburbia in less than a day. None of…
