U.S. Cyber Command recently issued a tweet concerning an Outlook vulnerability being exploited by cybercriminals. CVE-2017-11774, or The Microsoft Outlook Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability, was addressed by Microsoft in October 2017, when their security update...
The New Year is here, and the ransomware scourge shows no signs of abating. Over the past weekend, a major newspaper publisher experienced a server outage that interrupted the production and distribution of U.S. newspapers including The New York Times, The Wall Street...
Still using Flash? Adobe releases security update to shore up recently spotted vulnerability. Time to patch up! Dubbed “Operation Poison Needles” by Qihoo (the security researcher who discovered it), the recent Flash-based attack was carried out against a Russian...
The IRS posted an alert on their website warning of a malicious email making the rounds. https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-warns-of-tax-transcript-email-scam-dangers-to-business-networks The email contains malware called Emotet, which the United States Computer...
One of the principals of a Pennsylvania real estate firm got hacked, resulting in a business email compromise (BEC) attack that led to a member of the firm transferring $580,000 to the Bank of China. What is business email compromise (BEC)? In business email...
Email remains one of the biggest cyber attack vectors. With phishing and malware-infused emails still penetrating even the most carefully constructed network defenses, user awareness becomes even more paramount as a corporate priority. A recent Mimecast study found...
