Three hospitals in Alabama were closed to all but critical patients Wednesday after a ransomware attack crippled their computer systems. The form of ransomware used in the attack on the hospitals, all run by a nonprofit firm called DCH Health System, is not currently known. “A criminal is limiting our ability to use our computer systems […]
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Enlarge (credit: Michael Theis / Flickr) Microsoft has released two unscheduled security updates, one of which patches a critical Internet Explorer vulnerability that attackers are actively exploiting in the wild. The IE vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-1367, is a remote code execution flaw in the way that Microsoft’s scripting engine handles objects in memory in IE.
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What’s in your crypto wallet? The simple answer should be fat stacks of Bitcoin or Ethereum and little more. But if you use a hardware cryptocurrency wallet, you may be carrying around a bit fat vulnerability, too. At the 35C3 conference last year, [Thomas Roth], [Josh Datko], and [Dmitry Nedospasov] presented a side-channel attack on
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The bad news: right now, it appears that what comes next isn’t likely to look anything like what marketers have become accustomed to. Specifically, most marketers will find it very difficult if not impossible to reliably and consistently track users as they traverse the web, hampering their ability to target them. Or will they? If
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Texas officials have said that none of the municipalities impacted by the crippling ransomware attack last month have yielded to the ransom demand. In its first update since August 20, the Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) — which is leading the investigation into the incident — said more than half of the affected entities
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As students returned to school across the country over the past two weeks, school districts are facing an unprecedented wave of ransomware attacks. In the past month, dozens of districts nationwide have been affected by ransomware attacks, in some cases taking entire school systems’ networks down in the process. All classes were cancelled September 5
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Wikipedia was offline across several countries in Europe and the Middle East Friday after the popular online encyclopedia was targeted in a distributed denial of service attack. The Wikimedia Foundation Inc., the non-profit organization that runs Wikipedia did not go into a lot of details about the attack but implied that the attack may have
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Most business owners know what a phishing attack is. And this awareness has lowered the success rate of many phishing attacks. But hackers being hackers they have adapted and evolved with a new and growing type of account takeover attack. It is called lateral phishing. What is Lateral Phishing? Regular phishing attacks generally send an
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Wikipedia is down across the globe after a ‘malicious attack’ – with work underway to solve the problem. A major DDos attack – or denial of service – has been blamed for the outage, with pages currently available intermittently. A DDos attack is where multiple compromised systems – often infected with a Trojan virus –
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IT administrators with Supermicro X11, X10 and X9 servers in their environments are being urged to take remediation action to protect the devices after the discovery of a vulnerability that could allow an attacker to remotely access servers through a USB key. The vulnerability in the baseboard management controller (BMC) was disclosed Tuesday by security
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