Eric Brown

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In the Know - Cyber Security Update - Week of October 1st - October 8th

October is Cyber Security Awareness month, it’s likely that one of your email accounts has been involved in a breach - f …

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Oct 8, 2017 9:10:41 PM

In the Know - Cyber Security Update - Week of September 24th - October 1st

Attackers turn their attention to foods this week, Wholefoods & Sonic compromised point of sale systems, cause fire …

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Oct 3, 2017 8:04:59 AM

In the Know - Cyber Security Update - Week of September 17th - September 24th

Pattern recognition easily defeats Android passwords, more Amazon S3 buckets exposed, GPS coordinates on an Instagram po …

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Sep 24, 2017 7:03:17 PM

In the Know - Cyber Security Update - Aftermath of Equifax Part 2

This week we learned: 1. The Equifax breach was indeed the result of an unmitigated known security vulnerability in the …

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Sep 18, 2017 1:23:16 PM

In the Know - Cyber Security Update - Aftermath of Equifax

This week, instead of reporting five incidents of the previous week, I’m just going to focus on one, the Equifax breach. …

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Sep 12, 2017 10:24:51 AM

In the Know - Cyber Security Update - Week of August 27th-September 3rd

St. Jude pacemakers get a patch, your Amazon wishlist could be exposed to anyone who knows your email address, security …

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Sep 5, 2017 7:42:32 AM

In the Know - Cyber Security Update - Week of August 20th-August 27th

Google removes 500 apps from the Play marketplace due to Trojan horse style spyware, iPhone 7/7Plus hacked, Facebook mes …

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Aug 28, 2017 8:19:01 AM

In the Know - Cyber Security Update - Week of August 13th - August 20th

Two of the articles this week deviate from cyber security, however, they are topical and relevant to painting a larger ‘ …

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Aug 20, 2017 9:25:31 PM

In the Know - Cyber Security Update - Week of August 7th - August 13th

User targeted malware picks up this week – the latest variant of ransomware-as-a-service, Cerber, steals bitcoin, and br …

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Aug 14, 2017 7:08:52 AM

In the Know - Cyber Security Update - Week of July 30th - August 6th

Latest Windows SMB flaw (SMBLoris) compromises all versions of Windows from Windows 2000 to Windows 10. A big week for p …

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Aug 6, 2017 5:19:07 PM

In the Know - Cyber Security Update - Week of July 23th - July 30th

A fish tank leaks data, Uber drivers defrauded by social engineering scam, over a billion smartphones susceptible to Wif …

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Jul 31, 2017 8:31:42 AM

In the Know - Cyber Security  update - Week of July 16th 2017

More malware finds MacOS, French domain registrar loses control of 751 domain names, attackers demonstrate taking full c …

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Jul 23, 2017 9:31:50 PM