• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jan-10-2017
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on US Intel: Russia hacked Republican groups during election

Democratic groups and figures weren’t the only ones targeted in Russia’s suspected campaign to influence last year’s U.S. election. Russian cyberspies also targeted computers from state-level Republican groups and stole information from local voter registration records, FBI director James Comey […]

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• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jan-10-2017
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Microsoft releases one of its smallest monthly security patch bundles

Microsoft has released its first batch of patches for this year, and it's one of the smallest ever for the company, with only three vulnerabilities fixed across its entire product portfolio.The patches are covered in four security bulletins, but one... Read More

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jan-10-2017
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Microsoft releases one of its smallest monthly security patch bundles

Microsoft has released its first batch of patches for this year, and it's one of the smallest ever for the company, with only three vulnerabilities fixed across its entire product portfolio.The patches are covered in four security bulletins, but one... Read More

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jan-10-2017
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Disk-wiping malware Shamoon targets virtual desktop infrastructure

A cybersabotage program that wiped data from 30,000 computers at Saudi Arabia's national oil company in 2012 has returned and is able to target server-hosted virtual desktops.The malware, known as Shamoon or Disttrack, is part of a family of destruc... Read More