Security News > 2020 > November
Cyber Monday is here and great deals are available for computer security, software, online courses, system admin services, antivirus, and VPN software. Kaspersky is offering a site-wide Cyber Monday sale where their Anti-Virus, Internet Security, and Total Security products are up to 50% off.
Baltimore County Public Schools urged students and staff to stop using their school-issued Windows computers and only use Chromebooks and Google accounts following a ransomware attack that hit the district's network last Wednesday. The Baltimore County school district is in charge of all public schools in Baltimore County, Maryland, and it is the 25th largest U.S. school system.
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The University of Vermont Health Network is still recovering from a Ryuk Ransomware attack in October 2020, with services slowly coming back online. In October, the University of Vermont hospitals suffered a Ryuk ransomware attack that impacted services to varying degrees in all seven hospitals in their health network.
Banijay, one of the world's largest media production and distribution companies, last week disclosed a cybersecurity incident that resulted in the theft of sensitive information. A global production giant was created earlier this year when France-based Banijay completed the acquisition of Endemol Shine for $2.2 billion from Disney and private equity group Apollo.
Today, Microsoft is taking further steps to kill off Internet Explorer in Windows 10 by removing support for Microsoft Teams. As part of this plan, Microsoft is no longer supporting Microsoft Teams in Internet Explorer starting on November 30th, 2020.
A newly discovered credit card skimmer uses an innovative technique to inject highly convincing PayPal iframes and hijack the checkout process on compromised online stores. The skimmer will capture all order form data entered by the victims and will exfiltrate it to the attackers' servers.
Industrial automation and Industrial IoT chip maker Advantech confirmed a ransomware attack that hit its network and led to the theft of confidential, albeit low-value, company documents. The Conti operators behind the attack on Advantech's network have set a ransom of 750 BTC for full data decryption and for removing stolen data from their servers according to a chat log seen by BleepingComputer.
"Patch early, patch often" is a regular mantra on Naked Security, and it applies to all access points, modems and routers you use for your home network, as well as all the devices that can connect to it. LEARN MORE ABOUT WEP AND WHY TO AVOID IT. Here's a video we made more than seven years ago explaining why you should choose decent encryption for your home Wi-Fi. Some older network devices don't support anything better than WEP, so it's tempting to keep on using WEP if your router still supports it.
To select a suitable pentesting solution for your business, you need to think about a variety of factors. There are several key questions to answer before considering a pentesting solution or partner.