Are you an AccuNet client using our recommended endpoint security platform, Bitdefender GravityZone? Fear not, GravityZone business products received security patches and compatibility updates starting January 8, 2018 to mitigate the threat of the Meltdown and Spectre processor exploits. Read more here: https://www.bitdefender.com/support/understanding-the-impact-of-meltdown-and-spectre-cpu-exploits-on-bitdefender-gravityzone-users-2072.html Interested in switching to Bitdefender GravityZone? Contact AccuNet by calling 614-568-2116 or…
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Unusual Ransomware Strain Encrypts Cloud Email
Check out this video of a working “ransomcloud” strain that encrypts cloud email accounts like Office 365 in real-time. https://blog.knowbe4.com/heads-up-new-ransomware-strain-encrypts-cloud-email-real-time-video
How do Meltdown and Spectre affect you?
Curious about these processor security vulnerabilities? Here are the technical details: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/01/reading-privileged-memory-with-side.html …and here is what they mean to you: https://www.engadget.com/2018/01/03/meltdown-spectre-microsoft-intel-google-apple/
Top 5 Best Practices to Prevent against Ransomware
Current Anti-virus with Advanced Threat Protection & Web-Filtering It is not enough to just have anti-virus running on your machines. Please ensure the AV is regularly getting Virus definition updates for known viruses as well as Advanced Heuristics to look for odd software coding and/or unknown variants of previous virus signatures known as “zero-day” malware….
Windows XP is coming to End of Life Support April 2014. Are you ready?
Faced with the looming deadline for Microsoft’s official end of support for Windows XP, companies must migrate or risk their IT. by Ricky Ribeiro posted Jan 02, 2014 In the classic 1980s and 1990s PC game Oregon Trail, pioneers risked life and limb as they made the hazardous journey from the Missouri River to the nirvana of Oregon’s lush,…
7 things you can do to make Internet Explorer more secure
How well Internet Explorer—or any Web browser, for that matter—protects against attacks and malware greatly depends on whether you keep it up to date and have the right security settings. Here’s how to take the proper security measures with Internet Explorer 9 and 10. Upgrade to the latest version of IE Although switching to a…
What to Do After You’ve Been Hacked
Evernote became the latest member of the “we’ve been hacked” club. And the thing is, what was once a pretty exclusive club now lets just about everyone in these days. I’m a member too. And as I discovered when I was hacked last year, my experience was distressingly commonplace. And yet while being hacked…
Is Your Patient Data Protected?
By Steve Williams One of the most import issues we see in dental office computer technology relates to virus attacks. They happen when the employee or doctor innocently clicks on a friends email link. That action draws in a potentially harmful virus, malware, spyware, trojans infecting the workstation, the entire network, and sometimes corrupting…
25% of DDoS attacks in 2013 will be application-based
25% of DDoS attacks in 2013 will be application-based Posted on 21 February 2013. Twenty-five percent of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that occur in 2013 will be application-based, according to Gartner. During such incidents, attackers send out targeted commands to applications to tax the CPU and memory and make the application unavailable. “2012…
Apple Computers Hit by Sophisticated Cyberattack
Cyberattacks, apparently, happen in threes. After Facebook and Twitter announced that they were breached by sophisticated hackers in recent weeks, Apple said it had been attacked, too, in a rare admission for the technology giant. In a statement to reporters Tuesday, Apple said some of its computers were infected with the same malware that hit…
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