I received a spam with an advertising for the Facebook page IT Security News: Nothing special, but the two things drew my attention: – The picture was hosted by McAfee URL shortner: mcaf.ee – The prices for the followers were different. Want more fans on your page It Security News ? Get more fans with […]
http://www.proofpoint.com/about-us/press-releases/01162014.php More than 750,000 Phishing and SPAM emails Launched from “Thingbots” Including Televisions, Fridge Note: An article about this has been published by Richard Adhikari in TechNewsWorld. A general comment on the entire story. Security researchers usually use spamtraps (an email address that receive nothing else than pure spam) to collect these emails and […]
The classic approach to secure a company is to secure its assets against all attack vectors: laptops, workstations, servers, storage entities and programmes. The standard attack methods are usually: infections through files carried on USB sticks, memory cards, mobile hard drives, downloaded files network attacks (spoofing, DOS) vulnerabilities that get exploited in common software […]
One thing that almost all online backup solutions (e.g.. Dropbox, CX, Memopal, etc.) have in common is that they don’t allow the user to store encrypted files on their storage. They encrypt the connection from user’s computer to the cloud service, but once the files are there, they will be stored either unencrypted or encrypted […]
All these I needed to do on my RaspberryPI so that I can share a mounted USB drive to the entire network and to be accessible fully without any authentication. I know, not very smart, but try to configure a TV, 2 iPads, 1 iPhone, 1 Android and one Internet radio to access it. […]
Credits:http://cybersecuritymonth.eu/press-campaign-toolbox/ecsm-material/business-information European Cyber Security Month an EU advocacy campaign that takes place in October Protect business information outside your organisation Ensure you keep sensitive information secure: When you are outside your organisation, ensure you keep sensitive information and equipment secure at all times to prevent theft or loss. In particular when you are in public […]
Credits:http://cybersecuritymonth.eu/press-campaign-toolbox/ecsm-material/personal-information-identity European Cyber Security Month an EU advocacy campaign that takes place in October Protect your personal information and identity Use a strong password: Your password is the equivalent of the lock and key to your house on the Internet. Passwords are a major defence, and developing good password practices will help keep your sensitive […]
Credits: http://cybersecuritymonth.eu/press-campaign-toolbox/ecsm-material/pc-portable-devices European Cyber Security Month an EU advocacy campaign that takes place in October Protect your personal computer (PC) and portable devices PC Use a firewall: Firewalls protect your network some viruses and hackers Install anti-virus software: Anti-virus software prevents virus infections from spreading on your computer Get the latest security updates: […]
I wrote many times about Java, their vulnerabilities, how to disable it… Just search in this blog for the term Java. I’ve been asked many times why do I think that we are seeing these zero day vulnerabilities. The problem The problem of Oracle is that they bought a technology that was […]
Cybercriminals increasingly are attacking enterprises at their weakest point: the end user device. New forms of malware and social engineering attacks threaten your users every day, and even more so as they expand their use of Web-based applications. 1. Drive-by downloads. Users are visiting known websites that have a good reputation and don’t even think that it […]
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