by petratechit | Feb 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
Microsoft recently announced an important upgrade to Microsoft Defender. It now supports vulnerability management for both Android and iOS. The company’s announcement reads in part as follows: “With this new cross-platform coverage, threat and...
by petratechit | Feb 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
In late 2020 a new strain of malware called UpdateAgent appeared and began infecting Mac users. Initially the strain wasn’t all that worrisome. It stole system information but it was by no means the worst threat on a Mac user’s radar. Since that time, the...
by petratechit | Feb 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
Back in September of 2020 Microsoft announced that it was experimenting with the addition of SMTP MTA Strict Transport Security (MTA-STS) support to Exchange Online. This was done in a bid to ensure the email communication and security of their Office 365 customers....
by petratechit | Feb 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
BRATA malware was first spotted in the wilds by Kaspersky back in 2019. Its earliest incarnation saw it targeting e-banking users and it was designed to steal banking and login credentials of anyone infected. That’s undeniably bad but according to researchers...
by petratechit | Feb 12, 2022 | Uncategorized
If you have Google Drive, there’s good news. The company has recently announced that soon they’ll be rolling out a new feature to help alert users to the presence of suspicious documents. Google Drive users will soon start seeing banners alerting them to...
by petratechit | Feb 11, 2022 | Cybersecurity, Managed IT, Videos
If you aren’t concerned about the latest malware variants… you should be. With record-breaking increases of never-before-seen malware variants being detected every month, it’s more important than ever to be aware of the cybersecurity risks your...
by petratechit | Feb 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
Google partner Zimperium zLabs has recently discovered a sophisticated scam targeting more than 100 million Android users. The scam has been in operation right under Google’s nose for nearly two years. The scam has now been shut down by Google but while it was...
by petratechit | Feb 9, 2022 | Uncategorized
There’s good news for Apple users. The company has been busy and has recently released security updates that address two Zero-Day vulnerabilities. These are security flaws that could be exploited by hackers to cause no end of trouble to anybody running macOS or...
by petratechit | Feb 8, 2022 | Uncategorized
One of the most persistently frustrating aspects of our highly interconnected world is that we seem to exist in at least three different distinct ecosystems. Apple users live in the Apple ecosystem which encompasses both its mobile products and its PCs. Windows users...
by petratechit | Feb 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
There is a new phishing campaign to keep a watchful eye on according to email security firm INKY. It’s a particularly fiendish one. The attackers have designed an email template that does an admirable job of imitating the look and feel of emails sent from the US...
