Microsoft Pulls Latest Service Pack Update – Meaning What?

Threatpost has the story Microsoft pulls bad Windows Update After Patch Tuesday headaches . Patch Tuesday this month (February) was the second Tuesday of the month so it was the Feb 9th. Today the 17th is a week later and apparently this story is from yesterday(16th). There were some problems with a service pack update. … Read more

Catfishing Illegal? Spearfishing on Steroids?

Threatpost has the story  in Utah legislation work.   Let’s explain some catfishing: “The practice of catfishing often occurs in online dating or social-networking scenarios in which someone takes someone else’s personally identifiable information–such as photos, addresses, educational history or professions–to pretend to be that person to seem more attractive or interesting to people they … Read more

When SonicWall Gets Hacked What Chance Do You Have?

SC Magazine has the story – “SonicWall network attacked via zero day in its secure access solution”. Here is the formal SonicWall statement once they were notified by SC Media: SonicWall, whose product line includes firewalls; network security and access solutions; and email, cloud and endpoint security solutions acknowledged that an incident took place in a company … Read more

SolarWinds Hackers Hacked Multi-factor Authentication!!

Wait a second … I thought that MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication) was set up to prevent some attacks? The Googleblog post from a couple of years ago: Security Google blog had some data that proved the efficacy of MFA in this image: So MFA (or 2FA Two Factor Authentication) does prevent a number of potential attacks. … Read more