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Tripwire Study: C-level Executives Cyber Security Confidence Gap
C-level executives are less confident in cyber security board presentations than business and technology executives in Fortune 500 firms. (Graphic:ﾠ…
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LightEater Malware Virus Attacks: Exposes Units with Unpatched BIOS
Update your Bios, Now. After my original post I figured I should add some instructions
And here’s how. To easily check what bios version you’re at I recommend running Belarc Advisor. Download Here This is a wonderful free personal inventory tool that will give you everything you didn’t want to know about your computer. It also reads the license keys of your software like Windows and Office. This is handy if you need to reinstall and you don’t know your license key. After you run Belarc Advisor and find out Bios level your at. Go to Dell Support or HP Support etc and see if there are any updates to your Bios for your PC. You will probably need your Serial, Model or Dell Service Tag (all discovered in Belarc Advisor). Download the Bios Update, make sure your computer is plugged in, because this is not a good time to lose power in the middle of a Bios Firmware update.
If you have any questions, ask joe@mycomputerguyjoe.com
Joe
At a security conference CanSecWest, a presentation entitled “How many million BIOSes would you like to infect?” by security researchers Coreyﾠ…
Arkansas Law Could Force Workers to Friend Their Boss
ConnectSafely.org and most other Internet safety groups advise teens and adults to be very careful about who you “friend.” In our Parents’ Guides toﾠ…
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It’s not always a computer virus
US Offers Record $3 Million for Information on Russian Hacker
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of State is offering a record reward of $3 million dollars for information leading to the capture of a Russianﾠ…
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Common Computer Virus and Malware To be Aware Of
Technology is at its supreme best when it is running smoothly, efficiently and at an optimum speed in order to perform its function(s). A computer isﾠ…
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Lenovo Sued Over Superfish Adware
Cybercriminals shift sights from banks to payment platforms
Lenovo will stop preloading Superfish adware on PCs
Lenovo found itself in a bit of hot water when some customers started noticing weird sponsored links in the search results on their brand-new PCs. The culprit it turns out was a little piece of adware called Superfish the company was shipping on laptops. The company listened to customer complaints and turned off the server-side portion of the app in January. It also stopped preinstalling Superfish on new machines around the same time. While Lenovo said originally that it had “temporarily removed” the software from new machines while its developers worked on an update to address concerns, it now says that it will not preload the software ever again.
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