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5 Ways to Protect Yourself from IP Address Hacking

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Your IP address represents your digital identity online, hacking it not only allows attackers to access your device or your accounts, but it may cause even bigger damage. Cybercriminals are interested in hacking your IP address for various reasons. The hacked and stolen IPs are often used for carrying out illegal activities.

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ZoneAlarm forum site hack exposed data of thousands of users

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The ZoneAlarm suite includes antivirus software and firewall solutions to and users and small organizations, it has nearly 100 million downloads. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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NCSC warns of a surge in ransomware attacks on education institutions

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Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. . Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. SecurityAffairs – hacking, education institutions). Pierluigi Paganini.

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US govt agencies share details of the China-linked espionage malware Taidoor

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The CISA agency provides recommendations for system administrators and owners to enhance the level of security of their organizations: Maintain up-to-date antivirus signatures and engines. Enable a personal firewall on agency workstations, configured to deny unsolicited connection requests. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Taidoor).

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Microsoft’s case study: Emotet took down an entire network in just 8 days

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The virus avoided detection by antivirus solutions through regular updates from an attacker-controlled command-and-control (C2) infrastructure, and spread through the company’s systems, causing network outages and shutting down essential services for nearly a week.” Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – Emotet, malware).

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US Govt agencies detail North Korea-linked HIDDEN COBRA malware

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The FBI, the US Cyber Command, and the Department of Homeland Security have published technical details of a new North-Korea linked hacking operation. Enable a personal firewall on agency workstations, configured to deny unsolicited connection requests. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Local privilege escalation bug fixed in CheckPoint ZoneAlarm

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Check Point released a security update to fix a vulnerability in its antivirus and firewall ZoneAlarm, the flaw could be exploited by attackers to escalate privileges on a system running it. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. SecurityAffairs – ZoneAlarm, hacking).