Reading Time: 7 minutes 2017 Came with success and failure for multiple organizations – At Your Digital Mind we have compiled the largest failures of data breaches for 2017 When it comes to cyber-security attacks, 2017 has definitely seen its’ fair share of breaches. Many of these only recently came to our attention after […]
Teamviewer Hurriedly Releases Hotfix For Permissions Bug
Reading Time: 3 minutes Remote Support/Access company TeamViewer quickly releases a hotfix to address a recently learned bug that grants access without permission For anyone who has initiated or been on the receiving end of a remote support call, ensuring that you are protected and only allowing access to an authorized party is paramount. […]
Surgeon Claims Transplant Of Human Head A Success
Reading Time: 5 minutes Italian Doctor And Director Of The Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group Reports He Has Successfully Performed Head Transplant Procedure Sergio Canavero, an Italian Doctor who is also the director of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group recently announced to the medical community and the world that he has ‘successfully’ performed the controversial […]
Microsoft Patches 17 Year Old Vulnerability in Office Suite
Reading Time: 3 minutes After 17 years, Microsoft has officially released a fix to a known vulnerability in the Microsoft Office Suite that is installed on the system by default In last Tuesday’s patch update, Microsoft included an update to a 17 year old remote code execution vulnerability that was found within the Office […]
Russian “Fancy Bear” Hacker Group Exploiting Microsoft Office
Reading Time: 3 minutes Russian Hacker Group “Fancy Bear” Currently Using an Exploit That Microsoft Refuses to Patch Another headline about Russian Hackers has been circling the internet for over a week. In this latest event, the hacking group from Russia known as “Fancy Bear” has been utilizing a known vulnerability – DDE or […]
Think your LG Home Appliance Be Turned Into A Spy Robot? Hackers Do
Reading Time: 4 minutes Do you think that your Lg Home Appliance is safe and secure and that there is no way it could be turned into a Spy Robot? Hackers disagree and have proof of concepts in the wild With the world getting more and more reliant on technology, it is only a […]
FBI Attempts to Access 7,000 Encrypted Devices Fails
Reading Time: 2 minutes Agents at the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation have been unable to extra data from nearly 7,000 mobile devices they have attempted to access Christopher Wray, eighth Director of the FBI, said that encryption on devices was a ‘huge, huge problem’ pertaining to FBI Investigations. Over the past 11 […]
Bank Of America To Add More Security For Online Banking
Reading Time: 2 minutes Bank Of America to add fingerprint and face recognition technology to online and mobile banking Bank of America Corp has announced that they will be adding additional layers of security, including fingerprint and face recognition technology, to their online and mobile banking services. This announcement comes shortly after a seemingly […]
CCLeaner Hacked To Spread Malware
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Popular PC Maintenance Utility CCleaner has been hacked to spread Malware to millions of infected machines An attack on an incredibly popular computer maintenance software has been discovered to have been discovered by the researchers as Cisco Talos reporting that “the legitimate signed version of CCleaner 5.33 . . […]
FBI Paid $900,000 to Unlock iPhone
Reading Time: 2 minutes Senator Dianne Feinstein confirms that the FBI Payed $900,000 to unlock San Bernardino iPhone Following a terrorist attack in San Bernardino in early 2016, there was a huge discussion about the legality and implications of the FBI requesting Apple, the mobile device manufacturer, to unencrypt or ‘crack’ an iPhone 5C during […]