Tuesday, June 16th, 2015
Online security company LastPass published an announcement yesterday on the official company blog that it detected and blocked suspicious activity on the company network.
According to the information posted on the blog, the company did not find evidence that LastPass user accounts were accessed or user vault data was downloaded. The ...
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Friday, May 1st, 2015
Microsoft is offering the Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) that provides a solution to the issue of using a common local account with an identical password on every computer in a domain. LAPS resolves this issue by setting a different, random password for the common local administrator account on every ...
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Monday, April 13th, 2015
Researchers with Cylance have identified a new attack technique – built on a vulnerability identified nearly 20 years ago by Aaron Spangler – that can enable the theft of user credentials from PCs, tablets and servers running any version of Windows, according to a Monday post by Cylance.
The “Redirect to ...
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Tuesday, March 24th, 2015
There is no such thing as perfect security. Given enough knowledge, resources, and time any system can be compromised. The best you can do is to make it as difficult for an attacker as possible. That said there are steps you can take to harden your network against the vast ...
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Saturday, February 28th, 2015
In case you needed yet another reason to change the default username and password on your wired or wireless Internet router: Phishers are sending out links that, when clicked, quietly alter the settings on vulnerable routers to harvest online banking credentials and other sensitive data from victims.
Sunnyvale, Calif. based security firm Proofpoint said it recently ...
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