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FormBook Targets U.S. Defense Contractors, Aerospace Firms & Manufacturing Sector

Kayla Elliott / October 10, 2017

Latest Malware, FormBook, Targeting Major Organizations FormBook, a new malware variant has been targeting aerospace firms, U.S. defense contractors and manufacturing organizations in the U.S. and South Korea. This latest malware uses an executable that is included as a malicious attachment within phishing campaigns. Depending on the country being targeting the email attachment varies. For […]

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WordPress Plugin Hack Went Undetected For 5 Years

Kayla Elliott / October 9, 2017

WordPress Plugin Leaves Users Vulnerable Disqus, a popular WordPress plugin, revealed they were the victims of a data breach. Disqus is used for bloggers to allow individuals to comment on their articles. The hack began in July of 2012, and could be one of the longest undetected breaches, as it was just recently discovered. On

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Shutting Down the Infinite Alert Hoax for Good

Kayla Elliott / October 9, 2017

Infinite Alert Hoax Could Be Taken Offline, With Your Help October is cyber security awareness month, and it is during this month PC Pitstop hopes to put the infinite alert hoax to bed. Once and for all. However, in order to do so, we will need your help. Infinite Alert Hoax This hoax occurs when

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Kaspersky is having Twitter Trouble - U.S. government orders federal agencies to remove the antivirus.

Kremlin Hackers Use Kaspersky Antivirus to Obtain NSA Data

Kayla Elliott / October 5, 2017

New Developments Explain How Russia Obtained NSA’s Internal Details – And Guess Who’s in the Middle?? In 2015, the National Security Agency (NSA) suffered a data breach, that went undetected until early spring of 2016. The breach was direct aftermath of a contractor transferring highly classified information to his home PC. The hackers, who were

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Russians Allowed to Dissect Pentagon’s Security Software

Kayla Elliott / October 3, 2017

Pentagon’s Security Software Source Codes Provided to Russian Defense Agency Wait, what?! Yes, it is true about the Pentagon’s Security Software. Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is allowing a Russian defense agency to dissect the source codes for the security software in use by the U.S. military. The HPE program, deemed ArcSight, alerts analysts when there

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Sonic Breach Leaves Customers Vulnerable

Kayla Elliott / October 2, 2017

Sonic Food Chain Breached – Impact Remains Unknown In September, various entities were breached, including Equifax, the SEC, even the fast-food chain Sonic. In mid-September five million of credit and debit card numbers were loaded to the dark web. It is believed, some if not all of, these numbers came from a breach within Sonic’s

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How To: Monitor, Enable and Disable Startup Programs

Kayla Elliott / September 27, 2017

Startup Programs This tutorial is going to cover how to monitor, enable, and disable startup programs. Monitoring startup programs is important because if users have several programs starting when the PC is turned on, it could slow down the startup process. Also, if users are running too many startup programs, it could interfere with the

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Clients’ Secret Emails Revealed After Deloitte Hit With Cyber Attack

Kayla Elliott / September 26, 2017

Major Accountancy Firm Suffers Cyber Attack Cyber criminals infiltrated one of the world’s “big-four” accountancy firms, Deloitte. It is believed the attacks wormed into the system in November or December of last year and remained undetected until March of 2017. During this time, the hackers were able to access the company’s email systems, and potentially

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SEC Breach Could’ve Led to Illegal Trade Gains

Kayla Elliott / September 25, 2017

SEC Breach Leaves Open Doors for Hackers The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), discovered a security breach last year. However, until recently, no one knew the data obtained through the SEC breach could have led to illegal trade gains. Unfortunately, additional information is not being disclosed regarding this issue. Reports state, “The agency did not

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$301M Paid in Ransoms by SMBs in One Year

Kayla Elliott / September 22, 2017

SMBs Continue to be Hacker’s Target A recent study, State of the Channel Ransomware Report, collected data on over 100,000 small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) regarding the cyber threat, ransomware. The information collected was based on data from the second quarter of 2016 through the second quarter of 2017. It was found, fewer SMBs were

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