August 8, 2019

RUSSIA’S NEW ‘SOVEREIGN BILL’ COULD GIVE THE COUNTRY ITS OWN GREAT FIREWALL

The world is well aware of China’s Great Firewall, which gives its government total power over the dissemination of content. Anything which falls outside the state parties’ propaganda is […]
August 8, 2019

Kern County suffers data breach compromising over 15000 employees’ personal information

A data breach at the systems of third-party vendors might have impacted the health benefits program run by Kern County on behalf of its employees. This […]
August 7, 2019

Cylance Protect AV vulnerability patched

Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute’s CERT Coordination Center is issued patch for a recently disclosed vulnerability in Cylance Protect. The vulnerability note, VU#489481, said that prior to a July […]
August 7, 2019

MegaCortex variant redesigned a self-executing, incorporates features of previous version

A new variant of MegaCortexransomware making its way across the U.S. and Europe has been recast as a self-executing menace that doesn’t require a password and is […]
August 7, 2019

New phishing scam asks users to confirm unsubscribe request

The scam emails have subject lines similar to “Confirm your unsubscribe request” or “Client #980920318 To_STOP_Receiving These Emails From Us Hit reply And Let Us Know”. […]
August 5, 2019

SOPHOS – SFOS 17.5 MR1 RELEASED

We’ve finished SFOS v17.5.1 MR1. This release is available in stages. In first stage it will be available in Sophos Licensing Portal (formerly known as MySophos). […]
August 5, 2019

FORTINET – MICROSOFT WINDOWS JET DATABASE ENGINE HEAP OVERFLOW VULNERABILITY

At the end of 2017, the FortiGuard Labs team discovered a heap overflow vulnerability in Microsoft Windows JET Database Engine and reported it to Microsoft following […]
August 5, 2019

SONICWALL WINS GOLD AND SILVER IN BEST IN BIZ AWARDS 2018

SonicWall has been named a multiple winner in the 8th annual Best in Biz Awards, the only independent business awards program judged each year by prominent editors […]
August 1, 2019

Cyberattack forces Houston County schools to postpone opening day

Several thousand school children in Alabama had their summer vacation extended by two weeks as the Houston County School District was forced for the second time […]
August 1, 2019

Cabarrus County loses $1.7 million after being targeted in BEC scam

Scammers posed as a representative of the Roanoke Branch and Associate and targeted employees of the County’s schools and government. The scam began in November 2018. […]