With Robert Hurlbut Robert Hurlbut Consulting Services Date: Tuesday, August 1st, 7:30 p.m. Location: Danbury Hospital Creasy Auditorium Online privacy, security and anonymity are frequent topics of networking conversations at DACS meetings. There are many reasons we might want to conceal … [Read more...]
April 11th: Apple Workshop – Two-Factor Authentication
Rescheduled from March, this meeting will be of interest to both Apple and non-Apple users. Some of your accounts such as with Apple, Google, and Microsoft, can be made more secure with two-factor, or two-step, authentication. Accounts protected only by passwords are less secure because if someone … [Read more...]
March 14th: Apple Workshop – Two-Factor Authentication
Note: This month's Apple workshop is being canceled due to the expected winter storm. This will be of interest to both Apple and non-Apple users. Some of your accounts such as with Apple, Google, and Microsoft, can be made more secure with two-factor, or two-step, authentication. Accounts … [Read more...]
Sam Wexler APCUG Advisor Region 1 & new APCUG Speakers Bureau Chairman
How to minimize the risk and impact of identity fraud – From the Help Net Security website. Ctrl + Click on this link to read the article. https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2017/02/03/minimize-impact-identity-fraud/ Be sure to use the readers view to refresh your memory on … [Read more...]
Highly Effective Gmail Phishing Attack Even You Could Fall For
Read this post from the WordFence people about a phishing attach to which even you, a sophisticated technically advanced user, can easily fall victim. The phishing email is crafted to look like something your friend might have just sent you. This attack is really quite clever. The attackers have not … [Read more...]
A Ton of Popular Netgear Routers Are Exposed—With No Easy Fix
The vulnerability here is trivial to exploit, so easy in fact that you can easily test to see if your router is vulnerable with a simple URL. While a Netgear has released a tentative patch, this is so serious that the recommendation is to "pull the plug". There is a work-around that is easy to … [Read more...]
Firefox v 50.0.2 released
When a bug is found, how dangerous is it? That's the question because to not patch your system means you assume the risk that bug won't be used to break in to your system. Both the Firefox and Tor browsers have been patched to close the underlying bug reported here yesterday. The new version of … [Read more...]
Firefox 0-day in the wild is being used to attack Tor users
Update: Firefox version 50.0.2 has been released to fix the problem reported below. Read more... This is a serious vulnerability that affects all Firefox users, not just people using Tor. The proof of concept exploit posted to the Tor browser mailing list used apparently old code to expose a Tor … [Read more...]
New OS from Kaspersky Labs
The first new operating system in many years - maybe a decade. Kaspersky claims the OS was built on security rather than adding in security later. Read more... … [Read more...]
How to Protect Yourself After the Yahoo Attack
The Yahoo hack affected millions of people. Even if you have not been notified by Yahoo, you should take precautions beginning with changing your password on every site where you used the same password as at Yahoo. Since every one of these new passwords will be unique, you need to set up and use a … [Read more...]