Happy 4th of July Holiday!!

Kalo Mina = Have a good month in Greek. So remember to do some major backups on Holidays (always good to at least do 2 major backups per year.  I like to do them on holidays like the 4th of July and Christmas for example. So before watching the fireworks and more – do a … Read more

What is Threat Landscape Now?2019-July?

What kind of bad things are going on today on the Internet?   Have you heard of formjacking, cryptojacking, and ransomware? Formjacking is where a retailer’s credit card “form” was hacked by criminals and the credit card information is sent to the criminal as well as or instead of the vendor you are expecting to … Read more

Keep An Eye On Google ‘Security’ Projects

There are quite a few Google projects of which some are focused on security(there are many more projects, but these are the ones that could be cybersecurity. The explanation which is in italics- i.e. copied from theGoogle project webpages): https://opensource.google.com/projects/ Abseil   Abseil  an open-source collection of library code.   also at https://abseil.io/ Abseil C++ code … Read more

Microsoft Bug Disclosed Before Patch Available

As we have mentioned before the cycle of bugs found to patches released can sometimes be long. Tavis Ormandy has disclosed this bug in Microsoft Windows’ SymCrypt. Which can cause your system to have to reboot (with the right file or data passing through).  Tavis Ormandy is a Vulnerability researcher at Google. This bug is … Read more

Current Attacks Massive 1.6Mil unique addresses found hacked by “GoldBrute”

Internet Storm Center discusses an attack by the ‘GoldBrute’ botnet They found 1.5mil servers being used by the botnet. This means that a weakness in Microsoft (CVE-2019-0708)  May 14 Customer Guidance page: Specifically:  CVE-2019-0708 A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Remote Desktop Services – formerly known as Terminal Services – when an unauthenticated attacker … Read more