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Jeff Miller Of Cyberstone- Ingram Micro Award Winner

April 24, 2019

Jeff Miller of Cyberstone and Tim Gekas of Synergy IT Solutions were recognized at Ingram Micro’s Awards Dinner last night in Colorado Springs. They received the Chapter Officers of the Year award for excellence in leading the Nor’easter Trust-X chapter of Ingram Micro together. Jeff and Tim work tirelessly to drive Trust-X core values into…

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Social Engineering Fraud Endorsement

April 24, 2019

Imagine this scenario. Someone from another state sends you a bid request via email for about $50k worth of ink toner and promises that the winning bidder will get more business to come. In excitement, you put together a quote and email it back. A few days later, you get the email you hoped for;…

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Are You One In The 10% Of People Who Are Staying Safe Through Multi-Factor Authentication?

April 24, 2019

According to Google engineer Grzegorz Milka, less than 10 percent of active Google accounts use MFA. Why? People know they need to do it, but nobody has held their hand through the process of selecting an appropriate solution. There’s RSA. There’s Duo. There’s Yubikey. There are dozens of other options. But which one is most…

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Hackers Stole A Casino’s High-Roller Database Through A Thermometer In The Lobby Fish Tank

April 24, 2019

Are your IoT devices in-scope during regular penetration testing engagements? They should be! Security cameras, A/C systems, control systems, and IP-enabled thermometers are absolutely part of the attack surface hackers are using to gain footholds within your network. Read more here.

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Criminals Are Buying Up Misspelling Of Common Domains To Scam Web Surfers

April 24, 2019

Be aware of online scams when you mistype a common URL such as www.msn.com. This is a screenshot of a webpage one of our security engineers received after typing a web address incorrectly by a single letter. If you look closely, you can see used car salesman themes such as “urgent response needed” or “respond…

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Panera Bread Leaks Millions Of Customer Records

April 24, 2019

This is some pretty scary stuff. Panera Bread leaks millions of customer records… Worse – it’s been going on since August of 2017. Read more here.

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Boeing Gets Hit With WannaCry Ransomware Attack

April 24, 2019

ANOTHER. GIANT. FALLS. Boeing’s massive east coast operations center in Charleston, SC was just hammered with the same ransomware that caused global bedlam last spring. It’s shocking that we’re still hearing about WannaCry ransomware a full year after the critical vulnerability was discovered in Microsoft’s network file sharing protocol SMBv1 was discovered. Now is the…

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Weak Passwords

April 24, 2019

How weak are your user’s passwords? Run this free weak password testing tool to find out. It tests against 10 types of weak password-related threats! Why, you ask? Because according to Verizon’s latest security report, 81% of hacking-related breaches used either stolen and/or weak passwords. That’s why. Free Password Testing Tool!

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Changing Security Landscape

April 24, 2019

Today’s threat landscape is radically different from 5 years ago… According to Symantec’s 2018 Internet Security Threat Report: – Cryptojacking attacks explode by 8,500 percent. – Shifting trends in ransomware. – Implanted malware grows by 200 percent, compromising software supply chain. – Mobile malware variants increase by 54 percent. This is why we ongoing risk…

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How Safe Is Your Data On The Cloud?

April 24, 2019

You moved to AWS so now you’re perfectly secure. Nope. In the latest facepalm-invoking security snafu, a misconfigured AWS bucket managed by a Walmart partner exposed 1.3 million customers’ private data to the Internet. Moral of the story: The cloud is good, but you still have to implement secure concepts such as least privilege, risk…

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