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
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
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
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
Remember to make some backups – the hackers are hacking while we feast.
