• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Mar-26-2019
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Update: Asus issues fix for ShadowHammer attack, and a tool to detect if your PC was affected

Asus confirmed Tuesday that “a small number of devices” had been implemented with malicious code following an attack on its Live Update utility. That app has been patched, Asus said.Asus said that it has reached out to affected users, and […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Mar-25-2019
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on ‘ShadowHammer’ infects Asus PCs through its Asus Live Update utility

Over 57,000 users, and possibly up to a million, have downloaded and installed a version of the Asus Live Update utility that was poisoned with a backdoor and hosted on the official Asus servers.What security vendor Kaspersky is calling ShadowHammer was […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Mar-25-2019
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on ‘ShadowHammer’ infects Asus PCs through its Asus Live Update utility

Over 57,000 users, and possibly up to a million, have downloaded and installed a version of the Asus Live Update utility that was poisoned with a backdoor and hosted on the official Asus servers.What security vendor Kaspersky is calling ShadowHammer was […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Mar-21-2019
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Facebook passwords for hundreds of millions of users were exposed to Facebook employees

Facebook confirmed Thursday that hundreds of millions of user passwords were being stored in a “readable format” within its servers, accessible to internal Facebook employees. Affected users will be notified, Facebook said, so they can change those passwords.Interestingly, Facebook downplayed […]