In a year of many problems and issues the Department of Homeland Security decided to make October the National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) since 2003. https://www.dhs.gov/national-cyber-security-awareness-month The Theme is Own IT. Secure IT. Protect IT. Own IT is reminding you to travel with cybersecurity in mind (at least some of the time), Social … Read more
The top Cybersecurity problem (or risk) is phishing emails and ransomware downloaded to your computer or your website. When a phishing email somehow gets you to click a link that then downloads an infected “payload” into your computer you can only hope that the anti-virus you have (and/or firewall) will protect you from the … Read more
Active directory is the Microsoft software that manages all the information of objects on the network . (from docs.microsoft.com ) “A directory is a hierarchical structure that stores information about objects on the network. A directory service, such as Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS), provides the methods for storing directory data and making this … Read more
Needless to say a flaw in an older version of Exim (4.92.1) had a serious problem or flaw that became CVE-2019-15846: I like to point out some problems that come up that are interesting… This Software is needed in Mail servers and is not obviously known to most people. But if a company does have … Read more
Chinese Hackers Eye US Cancer Research: https://www.technewsworld.com/story/86211.html This is another outrageous attack on our companies and institutions as Chinese APT hacker groups appear to be linked to stealing information from Cancer research Here is a news story about espionage by Chinese paid doctors. NBCnews story about 3 scientists removed from MD Anderson Cancer Center … Read more
