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Coronavirus: A Threat to Your Staff, Cyberthreat to Your Operations
COVID-19, or coronavirus, has been a major global health concern over the past couple of months. At this point, it is clear that this disease could have serious impacts on the workplace. We wanted to provide a brief rundown of good workplace and network health practices, as well as a few pointers...
Phoenix IT Services Provider MyTek- Hack of Capital One Exposes Information on 100,000 Customers
Capital One is one of the largest credit card issuers in the world. On July 29th 2019, Capital One made an announcement, confirming it is the victim of one of the largest data breaches in financial sector history, as a former software engineer for Amazon has been indicted on charges related to the...
ALERT: Over a Million Asus Laptops Could Have Been Hacked
If you own an Asus laptop, there is a chance that a recent update could have installed malware, and we are urging anyone who has an Asus device reach out to us to have it looked at. Numbers are still coming in as far as how widespread this issue is. As of Monday, cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab...
Faxploit: Hundreds of Printers Putting Businesses at Risk of Malware
What's the big deal about business printers? How can they possibly be a security vulnerability? Printers, along with every other piece of equipment that is on your network, require careful configuration and regular upkeep to ensure that they aren’t putting your data and users at risk....
Has Malware Made a Home in Your Router?
Hackers and cybercriminals, like most people, tend to gravitate towards high-reward activities. In this case, that means that focus is turning to creating malware that attacks the router, potentially infecting the users that leverage it to connect wirelessly to the Internet. Researchers at...
The Cisco Vulnerability Requires Multiple Patches
Virtual private networks are vulnerable to an exploit that was recently brought to light. Cisco has announced that this exploit undermines its ASA, or Adaptive Security Appliance tool. If this issue isn’t patched immediately, you could find your organization vulnerable through remote code...
Links Discovered Between WannaCry and North Korea
In a statement given by Tom Bossert, the homeland security adviser to the White House, blame for the WannaCry attacks leveraged from May 12th to the 15th in 2017 was attributed to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. This assertion is in line with the conclusions that New Zealand, Australia,...