02 Apr IRS Warns of Surge in Economic Stimulus Payment Scams The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) today issued a warning to alert about a surge in coronavirus-related scams over email, phone calls, or social media requesting personal information while using economic impact payments as a lure. […]
02 Apr FBI Warns of Attacks on Remote Work, Distance Learning Platforms FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) issued a public service announcement today about the risk of attacks exploiting the increased usage of online communication platforms for remote working and distance learning. […]
01 Apr How to Mitigate the Windows Font Parsing Zero-Day Bug via GPO Active Directory (AD) admins can mitigate the recently disclosed and actively exploited remote code execution (RCE) zero-day found in the Windows Adobe Type Manager Library in large AD environments using group policies. […]
01 Apr Introduce Kids to Cybersecurity With This Free Activity Book Security company Balbix has released a 12-page printable activity book for children that introduces them to cybersecurity in a fun way. […]
01 Apr Cloudflare Launches a DNS-Based Parental Control Service Cloudflare introduced today ‘1.1.1.1 for Families,’ a privacy-focused DNS resolver designed to help parents in their efforts to safeguard their children’s online security and privacy by automatically filtering out bad sites. […]
01 Apr Hacker Group Backdoors Thousands of Microsoft SQL Servers Daily Hackers have been brute-forcing thousands of vulnerable Microsoft SQL (MSSQL) servers to install cryptominers and remote access Trojans (RATs) since May 2018 as researchers at Guardicore Labs discovered in December. […]
01 Apr Microsoft is Alerting Hospitals Vulnerable to Ransomware Attacks Microsoft has started to send targeted notifications to dozens of hospitals about vulnerable public-facing VPN devices and gateways located on their network. […]
01 Apr Zoom Client Leaks Windows Login Credentials to Attackers The Zoom Windows client is vulnerable to UNC path injection in the client’s chat feature that could allow attackers to steal the Windows credentials of users who click on the link. […]
31 Mar How to Secure Your Zoom Meetings from Zoom-Bombing Attacks This guide will walk you through securing your Zoom meetings so that virtual get-togethers, meetings, exercise classes, and even hours are not Zoom-bombed by unauthorized users. […]
31 Mar Microsoft Updates Windows 10 PowerToys With New Utilities Microsoft updated the open-source Windows 10 PowerToys toolset with new utilities for quickly switching between windows, for previewing files in Windows Explorer, and for batch resizing images from the context menu. […]