Ransomware Attacks Prompt Louisiana to Declare State of Emergency
Louisiana Governor John Edwards has declared a state of emergency after a wave of ransomware attacks targeted school districts this month. This Emergency Declaration will allow Louisiana state resources and cybersecurity experts to assist local governments in securing their networks. […]
Microsoft Office 365 Webmail Exposes User’s IP Address in Emails
If you use Office 365’s webmail interface to prevent email recipients from seeing your local IP address, you are out of luck. When sending email through Office 365, your local IP address will be injected into the message as an extra mail header. […]
Keep Calm, Carry On. VLC Not Affected by Critical Vulnerability
A recent security alert caused a panic where people thought the VLC Media Player was affected by a critical vulnerability that had no patch. The problem is that the vulnerability was not in VLC, but rather a module that was replaced over 16 months ago. […]
Robinhood Brokerage Firm Alerts of Passwords Stored in Clear Text
The Robinhood stock trading site is alerting users that passwords were stored in their system in human readable format, otherwise known as clear text. While no foul play was detected, this could have allowed employees or unauthorized users to view an account’s password. […]
BlueKeep Scanner Discovered in Watchbog Cryptomining Malware
A new Watchbog malware variant can scan for Windows computers vulnerable to BlueKeep exploits, with previous variants only being utilized to infect Linux servers compromised using Jira, Exim, Nexus Repository Manager 3, ThinkPHP, and Solr Linux exploits. […]