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How SPF, DKIM and DMARC can help detect and prevent Phishing, Spear Phishing and Spoofing Could your business survive without email? Probably not. Email is important. Today, email is the most commonly used method of communication around the world. Connecting families, connecting governments, connecting clients with small businesses and large…
Read MoreAs the City of Baltimore continues to struggle with the effects of the recent Robinhood ransomware attack that crippled their systems, the New York Times reports that the tool used to execute the attack relied on the EternalBlue exploits created by the National Security Agency. The NSA lost control of…
Read MoreIn a recent release, the City of Baltimore has advised that it is still unable to send or receive email after its systems were infected with the Robinhood ransomware on May 7th (16 days ago). The attack has disrupted real estate transactions, bill payments, email and telecommunications – though luckily,…
Read More2019 IDAHO CYBERSECURITY INTERDEPENDENCIES SUMMIT WHEN: April 29, 2019 from 8:30am Mountain until 5:00pm Mountain. Unfortunately, registration is now closed for this event. Please check back to read the final report on the Summit. WHERE: The Riverside Hotel 2900 W. Chinden Blvd. Boise, Idaho Preliminary agenda HERE Sponsorship opportunities…
Read MoreEarlier today, the folks over at Wordfence released news that plugins from SimplyWordpress were found to be malicious in nature. The WordPress plugin “Captcha”, which had over 300,000 active installs, was modified to deploy an unauthenticated backdoor via an automatic update process that downloads, self-extracts and installs a different version…
Read MoreThe recently released and poorly constructed variant of the Petya ransomware, was not designed to make money… so it is not by definition, ransomware. Petya is a wiper. It was designed specifically to spread quickly across the globe and completely and permanently eviscerate any machine it infects. First deployed in…
Read MoreFollowing a breach of their “secure notes” feature late last year, OneLogin has notified its users of a far larger breach that occurred on May 31, 2017. Covered by the BBC, Brian Krebs (Krebs on Security) and the Wordfence blog, this breach is far more damaging and affects all OneLogin users…
Read MoreWordPress was updated on January 26th to patch three separate security vulnerabilities. At the time, the folks at WordPress advised that you should update immediately which is fairly normal (and recommended). What you may not know, is that a fourth vulnerability was kept private for several weeks. Why wasn’t it publicized? Security…
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