Recently, a new small business client (under 5 employees) complained that “nasty” emails were being sent to their customers from one of their email addresses. Upon investigation we found a virus on a Workstation who’s mission was to gather all the e-mail addresses stored in their contacts and send it back to the virus creator. Then, using this list of contacts, the bad guys that More »
Companies that experience a data breach can expect to lose 20% of their sales revenue forever, according to a new study. PCI Pal PLC, a firm out of the United Kingdom specializing in secure payment solutions, surveyed 2,200 Canadian consumers. Of those surveyed 78% said they would stop spending money with a company that mishandled their data, and 58% indicated a willingness to stop spending More »
I received this email recently – and I thought I would create a post about how to hover on an email to see if it is legitimate. I have a Netflix account so when I first looked at this email, it does look legitimate – the logo looks right, no spelling mistakes. Let us do a hover test on this email to see if there More »
Concerned about being hacked? Now you have to worry about outer space? NASA is reportedly investigating what’s said to be the first ever instance of a space crime. According to a report by The New York Times, the space organization is currently looking into a claim that astronaut Anne McClain improperly accessed the bank account of her estranged spouse Summer Worden while aboard the International More »
Users of Kaspersky Antivirus products should note the software does something that can help hackers track you. When you go to a web page Kaspersky adds a unique identifying number to the page to see if it’s on a list of suspicious and phishing web addresses. However, a security researcher says that could allow you to be tracked. Notified of the problem, last month Kaspersky updated it More »
SASKATOON—The City of Saskatoon says it has lost $1 million in an online scam. City manager Jeff Jorgenson says a fraudster electronically impersonated the chief financial officer of a construction company that has a contract with the city. He says the culprit asked to have a payment sent to a new bank account and the city complied. Jorgenson says the city is reviewing its financial More »
The use of facial recognition, iris recognition or fingerprints — referred to as Biometric authentication; is seen by many experts as the savior of security by allowing organizations to do away with passwords. However, on Wednesday August privacy researchers discovered a large bank of unprotected biometric, password and other personal data open on the internet. The data, which belong to the BioStar 2 identity and access More »
In the run-up to the Tokyo Olympics next year, the sponsors are speeding up preparations to counter cyberattacks. Hackers hampered the two previous Olympics, taking down a state government website at the Rio Games in 2016 and triggering system failures just before the opening ceremony for the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Games in South Korea, making it impossible for spectators to print tickets. At a meeting More »
Posting wonderful events about your job on Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites may be great for your friends and relatives, but if you don’t lock down your privacy settings these snippets are also great for hackers. Proof comes from a recent blog on the site Fast Company by Stephanie Carruthers who works for an IBM team hired to test the cyber security of companies. You More »
The bad guys are now exploiting news of the CapitalOne breach to push a malicious backdoor trojan via a phishing email purporting to offer a Windows Security Update. See the attached example email. Clicking the link in that email downloads a file named KB3085604.exe — obviously named to resemble Microsoft patch files and security updates. The phishing email itself spoofs the targeted those working in organizations that occasionally ask More »