WatchGuard recently released its Internet Security Report (ISR) for Q4 2018. In addition to the many interesting details of malware attacks, IPS hits, and top security incidents, there is also a Threat Research section that covers the Exobot malware campaign. You can listen to The 443 Podcast’s overview of the report if that’s your groove. This post is not a regurgitation of … [Read more...]
Rubber Ducky 007
Like something out of a James Bond movie, or maybe Johnny English, she carried two passports, four cell phones, a laptop, an external hard drive and a thumb drive while trespassing at an exclusive club, one owned and visited by President Trump regularly. The women, Yujing Zhang, told security that she was going for a swim when she arrived at Mar-a-Lago in South Florida, but … [Read more...]
Dragonblood: What You Need to Know About the Latest WPA3 Vulnerabilities
As most know, mid-last year the Wi-Fi Alliance announced WPA3, a replacement for the aging WPA2 Wi-Fi security and authentication standard. WPA3 was supposed to make it nearly impossible to crack a network password. However, this week, the same researchers behind the KRACK disclosure in 2017 released five new WPA3 vulnerabilities collectively named Dragonblood. What do you … [Read more...]
Stay Safe When Filing Taxes Online: 4 Top Cyber Tax Tips for 2019
There’s no shortage of tax scams these days, as a quick click through to the IRS’s Tax Scam website will demonstrate. It’s getting so bad that the IRS again released its list of the “Dirty Dozen” scams for 2019. Leading off the list this year were phishing scams (which rose 60 percent in 2018 according to the IRS), followed by phones scams, identity theft, return preparer fraud … [Read more...]
IT Service Providers Face Dilemma: Embrace the Cloud or Get Pushed Out
The adoption of Cloud services is driving an evolution of the IT services landscape, forcing IT service providers to either embrace a Managed Service Provider (MSP) model or quickly be pushed out by those that do. Where being a value-added reseller (VAR) was once the optimal service model, the managed services model is now paving the way forward without signs of stopping. This … [Read more...]
