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McAfee Fake Antivirus Phishing Campaign is Back! – SANS Internet Storm Center …and… New zero-day vulnerability in Windows being exploited Phishing emails in the wild – how can this infect you? The story of a phishing email I have written a lot lately about phishing campaigns, all of which have …
Zero-day attacks will always be a serious issue for anyone involved in cyber security. A zero-day cyber attack is one that happens in the gap between the hackers discovering a vulnerability in a system and putting an exploit out in the wild and the software vendors, discovering the same software …
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Threat actors are always looking for ways to evade your anti-virus software and other technical defences you use. There is an active Qbot malware email phishing campaign being run across the world that is compromising the Windows Control panel of infected machine – which can evade some software defences. This …
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Now the SMS text authentication is only working for some people: Twitter’s SMS Two-Factor Authentication Is Melting Down | WIRED Do you want to know why SMS text message authentication is a very poor third behind app based multi-factor authentication and just about anything else? Read on: Twitter ‘closes offices’ …
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The US Government departments, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have released a joint cybersecurity advisory under their #StopRansomware project. This advisory examines the Hive ransomware so that cyber security defenders are better equipped …
