Protecting Your Network from Ransomware: Firewall Lets start out by defining a “firewall.” A firewall is hardware or software solution designed to control access to or from a private network. Any firewall-based protection is only effective against traffic that is actually coming through the firewall. Firewalls will not protect you from an infected USB device plugged into […]
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I have been watching the reports from our Doru Managed Firewall system and I have noticed over the past few month a marked increase in the number of phishing attacks. I checked out a few other sources and confirmed this observation. May reports show about 10,000 unique phishing emails and June is sitting at about […]
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What is Dharma? Dharma is a new version of ransomware. Once its on your machine, the virus doesn’t fool around it looks for file servers and starts encrypting the it finds data immediately. The method of encryption makes file decryption almost impossible without the encryption key which is unique and is generated as a part […]
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As if there were not enough to worry about on the web. Today I became aware of a new Chrome “hack” that injects a JavaScript into legitimate but poorly secured websites. The script changes the way text is rendered on the page and makes the characters look like garbage symbols. The user is then prompted […]
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