30,000 organizations including small businesses, towns and local governments with an exchange server, i.e. anyone who runs their own exchange server was susceptible to getting hacked. Krebs on Security blogpost. Also we have the following story: White House cites ‘active threat,’ urges action despite Microsoft patch The problem may be that if one was attacked … Read more
FireEye Blogpost last week about phishing emails using the iCEDID phishing infection has an interesting image explaining this concept: This is a sophisticated phishing setup and thus it behooves us to review this carefully. If you notice the initial phishing email when opened has several embedded items as well as a password structure so that … Read more
Don’t you wish that Chuck Norris came out of retirement and took on the Chinese cyber hackers? First let us set the stage: We have discussed in the past blogpost the ‘awakening moment’ of Chinese hacking into American companies: Here is the post https://oversitesentry.com/china-attacks-and-we-do-nothing-for-most-part/ (I like to show you the full link so you are … Read more
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
In my upcoming book many things will be discussed including why it is necessary to test your backups and recover the data. Why is this a big deal? Because if you do not take backups seriously and then when you actually need it, the backup better not have any problems. If you can’t actually recover … Read more
