There’s a causal relationship between social isolation and cyber attacks. When the bad guys are bored at home they tend to fill their time with cyber attacks. There is a marked increase in the incidence of attacks around Christmas time and we expected a similar increase during this pandemic.
Read MoreZoom is video conferencing and online meeting software. They went public on the stock exchange for $36/share in 2019 and are currently sitting at $120/share with a year to date of 76% in 2020 even though market is down 30%. Investors clearly believe in the company and I agree, the response from Zoom has been awesome.
Read MoreItaly has been especially terrorized by COVID-19. They had to 3D print valves to save lives when the supply chain broke down and they couldn’t get them any other way. The STL file isn’t available for this valve nor has it been officially tested and validated but, at the end of the day, it’s going to work better than nothing during a shortage.
Read MoreYesterday a new vulnerability, Type 1 Font Parsing Remote Code Execution Vulnerability, was released.
While a patch has not yet been released to fix this issue, there is a workaround that involves disabling preview in Windows Explorer:
Read MoreThis is not a ‘Here’s what we’re doing in the wake of COVID-19.’ The team at LARG*net continues to work hard to serve members’ needs. We serve the health care community and have assisted with spinning up temporary facilities. Extra bandwidth has been allocated as traffic patterns shift to accommodate teleworking and online classes. We understand that all members are swamped at this time and encourage you to get ahead of potential future problems by planning now.
Read MoreAs per the advisory this is unauthenticated remote code execution of a network service. There isn’t a higher threat than this category.
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