Category Archives: Latest Warnings

Breached Credit Union Comes Out of its Shell

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Notifying people and companies about data breaches often can be a frustrating and thankless job. Despite my best efforts, sometimes a breach victim I’m alerting will come away convinced that I am not an investigative journalist but instead a scammer. This happened most recently this week, when I told a California credit union that its online banking site was compromised and apparently had been for nearly two months. Continue reading Breached Credit Union Comes Out of its Shell→

Protecting yourself from Locky ransomware and other macro based malware

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Last revised or Updated on: 25th February, 2016, 9:24 AMOver the last few years we have seen a steady increase in Microsoft office files, Word and Excel , containing malicious macros that download malware that infects your computer. We have previously advised how to block macros and other executable content.  This very informative post  by an acquaintance gives some excellent advice about using group policy in an enterprise environment to assist with this problem. Microsoft have now jumped in and provided some information to help protect you.  Together with a Microsoft Office blog post giving settings to block Macros in Office 2016 Lets go through the Office blog post and see the problems that following this will cause in the … Continue reading → Continue reading Protecting yourself from Locky ransomware and other macro based malware→