December 19, 2017
How many of your devices are affected? A security researcher, Twitter name ZwClose, has uncovered that 460 models of HP devices come with pre-installed keyloggers. Embedded in the SynTP.sys file, attackers could navigate around User Account Control and activate this...
December 12, 2017
On the 12th day of December, Verismic sent to me … Top 10 Breaches of 2017! Throughout this year we have been breaking some of the worst IT security breaches of 2017, which have impacted millions of users worldwide. We...
December 8, 2017
Who Views the TeamViewer? A new vulnerability within TeamViewer has been making news across the internet. In an official statement by the company, they revealed that a GitHub user discovered a vulnerability in TeamViewer’s set of permissions. In a post...
November 29, 2017
What is Troll Ransomware? This year has had many major ransomware and data breach events. From BitPaymer to the Equifax Hack, when the news hasn’t been dominated by Trump, it’s been focused on cybersecurity. This has clearly caught the attention...
November 16, 2017
RDP Creates Vulnerabilities Remote Desktop Protocol is something you’ll find on every Windows computer and widely used throughout the IT industry. But does the ‘R’ in RDP now stand for Ransomware? As the common methods of distributing ransomware get tougher,...
November 15, 2017
Russia Caught On Top Towards the end of October, we started to see a flow of ransomware attacks from Russia with called Bad Rabbit. This epidemic has been targeting organizations and consumers, mostly in Russia but there have also been...
October 24, 2017
Updated 10/25/17 at 09:51am Ransomware Alert: BadRabbit is the New NotPetya A new ransomware attack from the actors behind ExPetr/NotPetya has jumped into the spotlight. The outbreak began in Russia, infecting big Russian media outlets, but it has already spread....
October 16, 2017
Hyatt Breach Affects 41 Hotels Worldwide We would like to warn hotel guests of another credit card breach at Hyatt Group, the second since December 2015. On Thursday last week, 41 of its hotels spread across 13 countries confirmed unauthorized...
October 10, 2017
Should Third-Party Really Be your Second Priority? If you have a patching strategy delivering Microsoft updates on a routine basis, you should extend that capacity to include third-party updates. Just a couple weeks ago, we discovered a massive compromise in...
October 5, 2017
Syxsense Announces Support for Linux ALISO VIEJO, Calif. (October 05, 2017) – Verismic, a global leader in cloud-based IT management technology, has released a new Syxsense version featuring support for Linux Operating Systems. This new version provides IT departments with a...
