Reading Time: 2 minutes The only thing cybercriminals like more than activities that expose social security numbers are ones that involve debit/credit card transactions. With millions of people filing their taxes online, which can involve both, it should be no surprise that the bad guys will be out in force as April 15th, tax day in the USA, approaches….

Reading Time: 3 minutes What’s worse, having your network compromised by a hacker or having your network compromised by a hacker and not knowing about it? Advanced Persistent Threats and zero-day attacks can go unnoticed for days and weeks, even on the networks of companies that have heavily invested in security software, posing a catastrophic threat to sensitive employee…

Reading Time: 2 minutes The latest high profile data breach is a big one. Health insurance provider Anthem is reporting that records of as many 80 million customers and employees have been compromised. Anthem is the second largest health insurance provider in the United States, with approximately 38 million medical members. The Anthem data breach may be the largest…

Reading Time: 1 minute The Linux GNU C Library (glibc) versions prior to 2.18 are vulnerable to remote code execution via a vulnerability in the gethostbyname function. The vulnerability, nicknamed “GHOST” can be exploited to allow a remote attacker to take control of an affected system fter merely sending a malicious email. Linux distributions employing glibc-2.18 and later are…

Reading Time: 2 minutes Oracle released its so call Critical Patch Update yesterday for numerous products and critical flaws that need to be addressed. Of note is a fix for a serious misconfiguration issue in its E-Business Suite product that hackers can use to have full access to databases that may contain confidential data. Vulnerabilities addressed in the E-Business…

Reading Time: 2 minutes Twitter hacks have become increasingly common and several high profile hoaxes raise serious questions about Internet Security. On Friday the Twitter accounts of two prominent news organizations, the New York Post and UPI, were hacked and hoax news item sent out. We can happily assure anyone who saw the messages that NO, World War III…

Reading Time: 2 minutes The problem with conventional antivirus software is that they are like a bomb disposal unit that has not yet figured out where the bomb is. They have to find the bomb to defuse it. Even worse, if the bomb goes off before it is detected the surroundings are unprotected! If the bomb disposal unit knows…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Once again, terror is in the news and dominates much of the national discussion. A major European city, the great City of Lights, was brought to a standstill last week dealing with an awful act of terror that shocked not only a nation, but the world. Despite some success since 9/11 made it a national…

Reading Time: 1 minute OpenSSL has released updates patching eight vulnerabilities, one of which may allow an attacker to cause a Denial of Service condition. The OpenSSL security update addresses a vulnerability where sending an invalid DTLS handshake to an OpenSSL DTLS client the code can be made to recurse eventually crashing in a DoS attack. OpenSSL is an…

Reading Time: 1 minute Comodo now provides one stop network and endpoint protection with the Korugan Unified Threat Management appliances. Korugan UTM integrates state of the art network firewall technology with Comodo’s portfolio of network and endpoint solutions to provide a secure environment at a cost effective price. The Korugan Web Based user interface delivers simplicity and total control…