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It’s coming from inside the house!

Posted on 2019-05-202019-07-23 by claritech

Even if you've never seen (or heard of) the 1979 horror classic, When a Stranger Calls, you likely have heard the iconic line, "the call is coming from inside the house". This line evokes instant fear in the recipient and is the same fear used in a classic email scam. Fake emails have been around for at least three decades. Even today, it is easy to spoof someone's ema...

Ransomware Alert – What you should know

Posted on 2017-05-152017-05-15 by claritech

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Yet unknown cyber criminals have taken an NSA zero-day threat and weaponized a ransomware strain so that it replicates across networks without user intervention. There is a 2-month old Microsoft patch that urgently needs to be applied if you have not done that already. For older obsolete systems, such as Windows XP, the patch was just realized this weekend...

Ransomware 101

Posted on 2016-06-262016-06-26 by claritech

Ransomware is a major Internet security challenge. This article explains how hackers use it to extort money from their victims and how we can protect ourselves. What is ransomware? In a nutshell, ransomware is malicious software that is installed on your PC through the typical virus installation methods: Through hacked or malicious web-sites via browser flaws or soci...