We manage a number for our clients and have udated them – have you? 4,000+ buggy Sophos firewalls still vulnerable to RCE flaw • The Register Do you know if you even have one? Does your IT company update it for you? You should know.
A ray of hope if you are hit with BanLian ransomware
If you do get infected with BanLian ransomware Avast may have a quicker answer for you, rather than using your ransomware resilient back-up – a free decryptor: Beating BanLian ransomware with decryption • The Register Obviously the are caveats, you have to be infected with the exact strain of ransomware …
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LastPass alternatives – Bitwarden
If you trust someone with your passwords, their security needs to be very good – the popular online password bank LastPass has had some security problems recently and I have made my suggestions for an alternative way to store your passwords. Here is an opinion piece from Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols …
Some help against scammers – at least in India
The Police in the Indian State of Telangana have started a grassroots cyber education scheme to combat social engineering scams: In the Fight Against Scams, ‘Cyber Ambassadors’ Enter the Chat | WIRED UK Education is the way forward. – that is why we created CyberAwake: European cops shut down fake …
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Commercial Spyware in court
The multiple suppliers of commercial spyware (nearly) all claim to only sell their products to national governments or authorised law enforcement agencies – yet the use of these products by other agencies seems widespread. Then there is who the national government is! The Canadian based research group Citizen Lab have …
