Here’s another gem from my friends at Miller Brothers Auto Repair of Somerset Wisconsin.
A duck walks into a restaurant around lunchtime, sits down and orders a soda and a sandwich.
The bartender looks at him and says, “Wow, a talking duck! What are you doing here?”
The duck replies, “I’m dry-walling the building across the street. I’ll be in town ...
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Rombertik is a new password stealing malware product that works by copying everything you type into a web browser window, and basically works as a keylogger. The goal is to steal your user credentials for online sites such as email, social network accounts, shopping accounts, and bank or other financial accounts. This is a pretty scary bit of malicious software. But there is more.
Rombertik has a revenge feature built into ...
Continue Reading →The Mac platform has become a popular target of cyber-criminals, partly because they have increased their percentage of the personal computer marketplace from 3% to 7%, partly due to the popularity of the iPhone, and partly because the consumer demographics of Apple customers generally point to people with more money who willing spend more to get the “best.” In any event, if you are an Apple user clinging to the belief that the Mac is invulnerable, you are wrong. You ...
Continue Reading →Whether active duty, deployed, or veteran, we thank our military for their sacrifice and service today.
Continue Reading →(Sung to the Bob Marley/Eric Clapton tune “I Shot the Sheriff”)
Ok, so the picture is a Dell, not a Gateway, but Dell doesn’t fit the lyric. The story is about a man named Lucas Hitch of Colorado Springs, who found a new way to deal with the infamous Windows “Blue Screen of Death.” He just carried the computer into the alley, whipped ...
Google has introduce a Chrome extension called Password Alert that will warn you any time you try to use your Google password at a non-Google site. This is a great way to protect yourself and your Gmail account from phishing attacks that employ a fake cloned Gmail login page in an attempt to get your Gmail user ID and ...
All the expensive high-tech cybersecurity goodies cannot prevent someone in your employ from clicking a malicious link in an email and opening a gateway to further network exploitation. That is the findings of ProofPoint in The Human Factor Report 2015. The discouraging point for those of us who advocate employee training as an important part of an overall cybersecurity strategy is that in spite of training, people are still more ...
When you discover that one or more computers in your business has been breached, it is easy to get very excited and try to eliminate your risk by taking systems offline, and having your computer support personnel wipe the hard drive and re-install a fresh operating system and set of applications. This is the wrong course of action if you were hoping to take legal action against the perpetrators.
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Continue Reading →I have Google Alerts sending me reports of when the name WyzGuys appears on the web. Evidently, we now have a bong named after us. Great.
Cyber criminals are using fake software “updates” to trick company employees into downloading Trojan horse malware to allow the attackers to gain access to the company network.
This is an especially nasty bit of trickery, as we advise our clients repeatedly to keep their software and operating systems updated to maintain the security and integrity of the software.
Once the malware is installed the cyber attackers are able to move around the ...
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