Increasing Spam/Malware Mischief
As you have probably seen, there has been an increase in the attempts of spammers to entice you and your staff into downloading malicious files. This has come across most recently as emails from financial institutions, payroll providers, and other businesses asking you to download a file from Dropbox. These legitimate businesses would not deliver documents to you via Dropbox, nor any other file sharing cloud service. Here is an example of this type of malicious email: The best defense to this...
Security survey enlightening … and frightening
Survey says? A recent survey of 4,275 global IT security pros was both enlightening … and frightening. Consider the findings of the survey: 57 percent: Felt their organizations were unprotected from sophisticated cyberattacks. 63 percent: Doubted they could stop the exfiltration of confidential information from their systems. 69 percent: Said cyberthreats were falling through the cracks in their systems. 44 percent: Had experienced one or more substantial cyberattacks in the last year. 59...
Windows XP not “dead&” yet; Microsoft makes exception with emergency update for IE
Microsoft earlier this month provided an emergency security update for Internet Explorer to prevent hackers from continuing to do their dirty work. But that wasn’t the big news. In a surprise move, Microsoft allowed Windows XP machines to receive the update, even though Microsoft had indicated in April it considered the 13-year-old operating system retired. “Even though Windows XP is no longer supported by Microsoft and is past the time we normally provide security updates, we’ve decided to...