SE Labs is a UK Based independent testing company. Its mission is to help "advance the effectiveness of computer security through innovative, detailed and intelligence-led testing, run with integrity." In early 2021, SE Labs tested 9 "Small Business Endpoint...
Cyberattacks & Ransomware
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Ransom Attack Hits DC Police Department
Yesterday, May 13, 2021, the Washington DC's Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) reported a massive internal data breach. It was the worst ever ransomware attack on a US police department. Thousands of documents were posted to the dark web on Thursday. Included in...
The Microsoft Exchange Hack Explained…
In January, a state-sponsored hacking group from China known as "Hafnium" discovered 4 "zero-day exploits" in Microsoft's Email Server software called "Microsoft Exchange." You may have heard about this in the news, and you are probably asking whether you should be...
How to Charge your Phone for $107 Million
It's as Easy as This... Sometime in late 2019, an employee with the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) plugged a personal device into their work computer to charge it. The device had a file infected with the Ryuk ransomware package. While connected, they opened a...
New Facebook Phishing Attack Could Fool Many
I just received a Facebook Messenger message from a good friend yesterday. He apparently saw me in a video and thought I'd be interested in watching it. He's a friend who does send me interesting stuff once in a while and there was no reason not to click through....
A Ransomware Attack that Turned into a Horror Story
October is Cybersecurity Month and the Canadian CyberSecurity Conference, MapleSEC, is running October 5 - 7. On Monday, Terry Cutler of Cyology Labs in Montreal shared a case study of a major Canadian company hit by ransomware. “IT guys are always asking for money,”...
Malware Email is on the Increase: Protect Your Business with Email Quarantines
Google is a security conscious company. I almost never get unfiltered spam or phishing attacks in my regular inbox.* By default, Google sends suspicious mail to the Junk E-mail folder (if it looks like spam but doesn't seem to contain anything harmful), or Google...
QNAP NAS appliances at risk of malware
Does your business use a QNAP Network Attached Storage (NAS) device? If so, the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) urges you to update the firmware to the latest release level. Hackers released a malware known as QSnatch in 2019 targeting QNAP...