Ransomware crooks launch customer service website

Now here’s a first — crooks who realize the importance of customer service. It’s the latest twist in the global CryptoLocker ransomware attack. This diabolically nasty malware locks up all of the victim’s personal files — and in some cases, backup files, too — with state-of-the-art encryption. The bad guys have the only decryption key and […]

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NCA ALERT – Mass ransomware spamming event targeting UK computer users

      The NCA’s National Cyber Crime Unit are aware of a mass email spamming event that is ongoing, where people are receiving emails that appear to be from banks and other financial institutions. The emails may be sent out to tens of millions of UK customers, but appear to be targeting small and medium […]

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Oracle releases out of the blue out of cycle fixes for Java

Out of nowhere Oracle has released an emergency update to address the zero-day vulnerabilities being exploited by many different criminal groups. Surprisingly they included some previously unknown vulnerabilities that we can only assume may also have been in use in the wild. The good news is customers who require Java in their environments can now deploy […]

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