There are 5 vulnerabilities that have been discovered by Nomotion Software in AT&T modems manufactured by Arris. As of September 6, 2017, there have not been any solutions offered by AT&T or Arris. Below is the list of known vulnerabilities. Models NVG589 and NVG599 enable Secure Socket Shell (SSH) and contain hardcoded credentials. Default credentials […]
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Ukrainian central bank issued a warning to private and state-owned lenders about the threat of new malware. This new malware is among the same strand of recent vicious cyber-attacks, namely NotPetya. The NotPetya attack took down a number of Ukraine’s government agencies and energy companies in June of 2017. Cybersecurity officials are taking the recent
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Yet another ransomware attack is plaguing computers worldwide. It was originally thought to be a version of the Petya ransomware strain but researches state that it is different enough to be its own strain and has been dubbed NotPetya. Earlier this afternoon a researcher discovered a vaccine of sorts. This is different than the killswitch
The New York Times wrote an in-depth piece about a hack that used WannaCry Ransomware as a diversion. https://t.co/xqMmrwLbPx A lot of these new attacks cannot be detected and some of the top security tools out there missed them as well. That is why a security solution is needed and it is not just tools. In
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A new PowerPoint exploit has been discovered recently that can infect a computer when a user opens up an infected PowerPoint file. There is a mechanism embedded in the file that if a user mouses over a particular area or link, it will aunch PowerShell code that can execute very damaging commands. Read more here:
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