by petratechit | Oct 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
Medical equipment provider Medtronic has issued an urgent recall order for insulin pump controllers belonging to their “MiniMed Paradigm” family. The company cited serious cyber security risks as the reason for the recall. The models in question are...
by petratechit | Oct 16, 2021 | Uncategorized
Researchers from Zimperium zLabs have detected a nasty, dangerous, global malware campaign that has managed to infect more than 10 million Android devices from around the world in more than 70 different countries. As with most malware campaigns this one relies on...
by petratechit | Oct 15, 2021 | Cybercrime, Ransomware, Videos
In the cybersecurity world, 2021 has been a pretty memorable year – for all the wrong reasons. JBS (a meatpacking company) and Colonial Pipeline made headlines in May of 2021 by being the victims of sophisticated cyberattacks. Both companies were severely...
by petratechit | Oct 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
Are you a gamer? Do you have an account on Steam, EA Origin, or the Epic Games Store? If so there’s an emerging threat you should be aware of. A new strain of malware is now being sold on the Dark Web. Discovered by researchers operating out of Kaspersky Labs...
by petratechit | Oct 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
Do you have an iPhone? Do you make use of the Apple Pay service? If so there is a security issue you need to be aware of. Researchers have discovered a means by which fraudulent payments can be made from a locked iPhone. Two conditions must be true for the flaw to be...
by petratechit | Oct 13, 2021 | Uncategorized
It’s good to be the King and in the world of search Google is the undisputed King. That fact has made the tech giant something of a target however. Google has been sued repeatedly and investigated by both the US Congress and the EU’s General Court owing to...
by petratechit | Oct 12, 2021 | Uncategorized
Are you a QuickBooks user? If so you’re going to be thrilled by the company’s recent announcement that Excel integration is coming soon. You read that correctly. Soon you will be able to sync QuickBooks and Excel which should simplify your life a great...
by petratechit | Oct 11, 2021 | Uncategorized
Hackers around the world are flexing their muscles. For reasons that aren’t yet clear they have been launching distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks against Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) providers and it is leading to widespread voice outages. VoIP...
by petratechit | Oct 9, 2021 | Uncategorized
A new Zero Day vulnerability in macOS has been discovered. The flaw impacts all macOS versions up to the latest release Big Sur. The bug was found by Park Minchan an independent security researcher and is tied to the way that macOS processes inteloc files. The...
by petratechit | Oct 8, 2021 | Managed IT, Videos
File sharing through email is a frequent occurrence in most businesses, but have you thought about how secure your methods might be? The solution: a cloud-based file sharing method with extra layers of security. Chris Cummings discusses how this type of file sharing...
