Fax Machines Might Be Gateway To Next Hacker Attack

August 23rd, 2018

Nothing bad could possibly happen to your company's network if the only piece of information the hackers have is your fax number, right?

Unfortunately not, according to recent research by employees at Check Point.

They recently revealed details about not one, but two different REC's (Remote Code Execution) techniques that exploit flaws in the communications protocols of tens of millions of fax machines spread all over the globe.

Connecting To Aiport Wi-Fi Puts Your Data At Risk

August 6th, 2018

File this away under things you already knew.  Coronet recently released a report entitled "Attention All Passengers:  Airport Networks Are Putting Your Devices & Cloud Apps At Severe Risk," and the news is about what you'd expect.

E-Mail Is A Big Threat To Your Organization

August 2nd, 2018

Mimecast's 2018 "State of Email Security" report is out, and although it's contents are hardly a surprise, the news it contains is mostly bad.

For starters, it confirms what most IT professionals already know:

Email continues to be a big threat for organizations of all sizes.

New Report Shows 32 Percent Increase In Cyber Attacks

July 27th, 2018

Positive Technologies has just released a new report that paints a grim picture for IT professionals.  If your sense is that the number of cyberattacks are increasing, you're not wrong. In fact, it's probably worse than you realize.

So far this year, we've seen a staggering 32 percent increase in the total number of cyberattacks in the first quarter of 2018, compared to the same period last year.

Malware Created Using Stolen Legitimate Security Certificate From D-Link

July 20th, 2018

Researchers from the digital security firm ESET have recently spotted a new malware campaign with a nasty twist.  It was created using a legitimate security certificate stolen from D-Link.

The malware appears to be the work of an Advanced Persistent Threat group known as BlackTech, which primarily targets high profile users and firms in Asia, with a

particular emphasis on Japan, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Americans Want Local Governments To Spend More On Cyber Security

July 14th, 2018

While a significant percentage of Americans are suspicious of government spending beyond the essentials, there's at least one notable exception, according to a recent survey conducted by SecurityFirst.

A majority (74 percent) of Americans want their local governments to spend more money on cybersecurity.

Watch Out For Rise In Microsoft Office Attacks 

July 4th, 2018

Menlo Security has recently published a new report that will probably dismay you if you're a business owner.

Microsoft Office has been named as the attack vector of choice for hackers around the world. The most common form of the attack is a malicious Word document or other office document attached to an innocent looking email.

New Trick Lets Hackers Bypass Office 365 Email Security

June 29th, 2018

What's old is new again.

Hackers have recently begun re-deploying a decade-old trick called 'ZeroFont' to get around Microsoft's security filters and deliver phishing and spam emails to Office 365 email accounts.  The gimmick?  Zero-point fonts.

Majority Of Web Apps Found To Have Security Vulnerabilities 

June 28th, 2018

How many web apps do you have on your phone?  Probably a ton.  Here's something you likely didn't know.  Based on the latest research from Positive Technologies, nearly half of them (48 percent) are vulnerable to unauthorized access.

As bad as that is, it's just the tip of the proverbial iceberg.

Another Vulnerability Found In Intel CPU’s

June 26th, 2018

More bad news for Intel. Yet another security flaw has been identified in the processors the company makes.  This one is so newly discovered that the full technical details have yet to be released.  Here's what we know so far, from a recent Intel announcement:

"System software may opt to utilize Lazy FP state restore instead of eager save and restore of the state upon a context switch.