A fake FedEx email is making the rounds and because the link to get the shipping information is cleverly hidden in an image you might be tempted to click before evaluating the legitimacy of this email. We’ll take this email apart step by step so you can get an understanding of just how fake it…
Read moreAlbeit improved in all the wrong ways. CryptoWall 2.0 is ransomware that falls into the same category as CryptoLocker, CryptorBit, TorrentLocker, the original CryptoWall, etc. As one would expect with anything labeled 2.0 there have been improvements made to the original CryptoWall, in this case making it all the more insidious. The original CryptoWall…
Read moreThere is a fundamental flaw in the firmware on USB sticks and a pair of hackers has made public the code for really bad malware that takes advantage of that flaw. In August, at DefCon in Las Vegas, researcher Karsten Nohl demonstrated an attack called BadUSB which proved it is possible to corrupt any USB…
Read moreI will start by saying that some technical mischief as a teenager (or later) does not automatically make a prospective employee undesirable. More often than not it makes them more desirable because you know they’ve been willing to dig in and get their hands dirty. Whether that means they took the family computer apart and…
Read moreOn the heels of the ShellShock aka Bash disclosure that Mac OS X is included in the list of vulnerable operating systems comes word that hackers are using Reddit to connect Macs to a Botnet. First let’s start with what is a Botnet? A botnet is a collection of programs interconnected via the Internet communicating…
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