News and Updates

The U.S. Computer Emergency Response Team, part of the Department of Homeland Security, recently issued an alert about the upcoming (July 2015) end-of-support date for Windows Server 2003. You can read the notice by clicking here: https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA14-310A Typical of all end-of-support scenarios, after July 2015 Microsoft will no longer provide security patches and other updates to the software. US-CERT ...

“DarkHotel” , a recently discovered, seven-year-old piece of malware, targets travelling executives staying in luxury hotels, presenting ‘downloads’ or ‘updates’ to their computers filled with viruses and other malware. There are two particularly unsettling aspects to how DarkHotel is deployed; it is targeted to an individual and their stay at a particular hotel, and it presents copies of legitimate security certificates. The ...