Computer Safety & News

Graham Cluley’s security site shares awareness on avoiding fake invoice emails that are circulating with Word macro viruses embedded (a 20 year old attack method):   It’s been over 20 years since the first Word macro virus reared its ugly head and pulled the carpet from underneath the feet of computer users worldwide.  Up until […]

Malwarebytes shares awareness on avoiding all scams that appear to good to be true as the “Casino Online Winner” scam is circulating currently: https://blog.malwarebytes.org/fraud-scam/2016/02/avoid-this-casino-online-promotion-419-scam/ Remember the time when you won a ridiculous amount of money from a Casino you’d never heard of, much less visited?  Me neither, but as it turns out it doesn’t really […]

Active BOTNETs have been attacking the denial-of-service attacks against Word Press based sites (often used for blogs) as shared below.   https://blog.sucuri.net/2016/02/wordpress-sites-leveraged-in-ddos-campaigns.html We first disclosed that the WordPress pingback method was being misused to perform massive layer 7 Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks back in March 2014. The problem being that any WordPress website with […]

Kaspersky has introduced a new cleaner tool to remove temporary Windows work files that can accumulate and use large amounts of disk space.  The new Kaspersky Cleaner represents an alternative to cCleaner, the Wise Disk Cleaner, and other similar tools, as documented below: http://www.intowindows.com/kaspersky-cleaner-free-for-windows-10/ Kaspersky Cleaner is a free software from Kaspersky Lab to clean your […]

The Internal Revenue Service shares an awareness that possbily 700,000 individuals may have been impacted by a data breach last year.  They have spotted some attempts to create false tax returns and are in process of warning additional impacted households. http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/irs-cyberattack-total-more-twice-previously-disclosed-n526846 Cyberattacks on taxpayer accounts affected more people than previously reported, the Internal Revenue Service […]

Earlier this month, Google issued a critical security update which patched 13 vulnerabilities.  Users should update promptly to ensure the best levels of security protection. http://www.eweek.com/blogs/security-watch/google-patches-13-vulnerabilities-in-february-android-update.html Google has come out with its second security patch update for Android in 2016, this time patching 13 vulnerabilities in the mobile device operating system. Five of the vulnerabilities […]

Corporate users should carefully test, pilot, and install these new releases to better protect against critical vulnerabilities discovered and resolved by these updates. https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/OpenSSL+Security+Update+Planned+for+1+March+Release/20775/ https://mta.openssl.org/pipermail/openssl-announce/2016-February/000063.html The OpenSSL project team will be releasing OpenSSL version 1.0.2g and 1.0.1s on the 1 March 2016 that fixes several high severity vulnerabilities. They are also reminding everyone that version […]