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College closes down after ransomware attack

Malwarebytes

. “Lincoln College has survived many difficult and challenging times – the economic crisis of 1887, a major campus fire in 1912, the Spanish flu of 1918, the Great Depression, World War II, the 2008 global financial crisis, and more, but this is different. Require the use of multi-factor authentication (MFA).

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

bank accounts. 2008, wherein he addresses forum members with the salutation, “Hello Gentlemen Scammers.” Multiple accounts are registered to that email address under the name Alexander Valerievich Grichishkin , from Cherepovets. This post is an attempt to remedy that omission. ws was registered to an Andrew Artz.

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Feds Warn About Critical Infrastructure Ransomware Attacks, Vulnerabilities

eSecurity Planet

The agencies offered some sound cybersecurity advice for BlackByte that applies pretty generally: Conduct regular backups and store them as air-gapped, password-protected copies offline. Review domain controllers, servers, workstations, and active directories for new or unrecognized user accounts. BlackByte Ransomware Protection Steps.

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CloudWizard APT: the bad magic story goes on

SecureList

From the WmiPrvSE.exe process, it makes a backup of the VFS file, copying mods.lrc to mods.lrs. The module’s configuration includes OAuth tokens required for cloud storage authentication. The module that looked most interesting to us is the one that performs email exfiltration from Gmail accounts.

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, June 2020 Edition

Krebs on Security

Microsoft today released software patches to plug at least 129 security holes in its Windows operating systems and supported software, by some accounts a record number of fixes in one go for the software giant. So do yourself a favor and backup before installing any patches.

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Top Database Security Solutions for 2021

eSecurity Planet

Out of Palo Alto, California, Cloudera started in 2008 by alumni of Google, Yahoo!, From a GUI enterprise manager to advanced logical replication, backup and recovery, and a migration toolkit, EDB is a go-to vendor for all Postgre database administrators. Also Read: Best Encryption Software & Tools for 2021. Facebook, and Oracle.

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Types of Malware & Best Malware Protection Practices

eSecurity Planet

In 2008, the Kraken botnet with 495,000 bots infected 10% of the Fortune 500 companies. This exposed data includes everything from emails and documents typed to passwords entered for authentication purposes. By obtaining sensitive authentication access, attackers can break into the vendor network or user account.

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