Tag: decrypting
How to Analyze Anti-Virus Programs for Windows XP
When you want to get more visitors to the blog and you want to make sure that they stay there, this is a great place to start. Tadeas Kononicki, Daniel A. Aloni, Mladen Vujovič, Aleksi Savin, Jana Dols. This article analyzes two anti-virus programs for Windows XP – Bitdefender Internet Security and Webroot Security –…
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Cybersecurity – What Is It and How Does It Work?
“By using the information that they collect, players can obtain information about the performance of other users on their network. And if they share the information with the users of the game, players can see who they are playing with and who has access to their accounts—if the accounts are not tied to someone else,…
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The Latest Attacks on Computer User Security
Only available to security professionals. With the advent of new information and communication technologies, a lot of new and exciting threats to computer user security have surfaced. For example, a hacker might be able to exploit computer vulnerabilities that can be found in the operating system kernel or application software and then launch a specially…
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The Importance of Patient Monitoring Devices for Ransomware
A recent piece in SecurityWeek explains the issues with ransomware’s impact in the health care market, and proposes the use of patient monitoring devices for ransomware detection. The article does not suggest that health care facilities should pay for a device that only runs one of the two antivirus programs that are included on the…
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Pegasus Software – An Overview
The National Security Agency (NSA) is charged with collecting, processing, analyzing, and storing electronically all records of a particular class of activities which we have previously designated as “foreign intelligence information”. This information is collected and stored by the U. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). During the last decade, the NSA has made various advances in…
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DarkStar Ransomware Spreads to Chemical Distributors
A new strain of ransomware discovered by researchers has spread to a U. -based chemical distributor. The virus, which appears to be a variation of DarkStar, encrypts data, including financial and personal information. The virus is believed to be an advanced variant of a variant first discovered in June 2016. On November 2, 2016, researchers…
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Ransomware Attack – How to Decrypt a Ransom Note
There is an ongoing ransomware outbreak. It has a number of similarities to the notorious Ransomware attack on October 2013. We are reporting new links and analysis relating to the campaign. The first phase of the attack was launched in December 2015 and by January 2016 two of the groups involved in the attack had…
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