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Cervical cancer remains a major health crisis in Indonesia, where it stands as the second most common cancer after breast cancer. According to statistics from the Global Burden of Cancer Study (Globocan), Indonesia witnessed 36,633 new cases and 21,003 deaths in 2020 alone, translating to...

Original release date: May 11, 2021 Summary This Advisory uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK®) framework, Version 9. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise for all referenced threat actor tactics and techniques. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security...

Microsoft has been investigating recent attacks by malicious actors using the Dopplepaymer ransomware. There is misleading information circulating about Microsoft Teams, along with references to RDP (BlueKeep), as ways in which this malware spreads. Our security research teams have investigated...

Word 16 suddenly would not open a document I've been working on for a while. I get the error that it needs to be recovered. After I recovered it the file contents were gibberish. My question is how do word documents become corrupt? Can this be prevented?

Can one browser snoop on activity in another, assuming good security software is running (I just switched from Norton to Sophos)? I want to separate my Google activity from other things, so I'm considering running G things (gmail, Drive, Play Music) in Chrome only, and do all my other browser...

b o n j o u r j 'ai souci avec mon compte wicrosoft hé oui j'ai un moment du re placer mon compte et de mon passe et depuis j'ai les pire ennuis en effet, comme si je venais d'être pirater ou que une autre personne que moi a eu accès a mon compte du coup mon ancien passe a été...

Original release date: May 12, 2017 | Last revised: May 19, 2017 Systems Affected Microsoft Windows operating systems Overview According to numerous open-source reports, a widespread ransomware campaign is affecting various organizations with reports of tens of thousands of infections in...

Original release date: May 12, 2017 | Last revised: May 13, 2017 Systems Affected Microsoft Windows operating systems Overview According to numerous open-source reports, a widespread ransomware campaign is affecting various organizations with reports of tens of thousands of infections in as...

Yes........ Malwarebytes Acquires AdwCleaner Malwarebytes acquires anti-adware startup with 200 million downloads to further campaign against potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) Link Removed SANTA CLARA, Calif. – October 19, 2016 – Malwarebytes™, the leading advanced malware prevention...

Original release date: October 14, 2016 Systems Affected Internet of Things (IoT)—an emerging network of devices (e.g., printers, routers, video cameras, smart TVs) that connect to one another via the Internet, often automatically sending and receiving data Overview Recently, IoT devices...

Hello. I have a partition holding my data and another for the Windows installation, I like to edit the save locations so that common folders (Documents, Music, Videos etc) all get redirected to my data drive, but since I reinstalled W10 it now complains saying "You don't currently have...

If you are not ready for the Windows 10 upgrade but made a reservation these steps will help you keep it off your system. read more Continue reading...

If you are not ready to upgrade to Windows 10 this summer you can keep it from downloading and prompting you to install the upgrade. read more Continue reading...

Original release date: April 29, 2015 Systems Affected Systems running unpatched software from Adobe, Microsoft, Oracle, or OpenSSL. Overview Cyber threat actors continue to exploit unpatched software to conduct attacks against critical infrastructure organizations. As many as 85 percent of...

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Original release date: April 09, 2015 Systems Affected Microsoft Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, and 8 Microsoft Server 2003, Server 2008, Server 2008 R2, and Server 2012 Overview AAEH is a family of polymorphic downloaders created with the primary purpose of downloading other...

I recently made a support call to what I thought was HP customer support. The rep that answered tried to convince me I had a virus in my hard drive and that I needed to purchase Microsoft Forefront Security Service. At this point I ended the call, however I did foolishly allow the rep to access...

Original release date: November 25, 2014 Systems Affected Microsoft Windows NT, 2000, XP, Vista, and 7 Overview On November 24, 2014, Symantec released a report on Regin, a sophisticated backdoor Trojan used to conduct intelligence-gathering campaigns. At this time, the Regin campaign has...

Original release date: October 22, 2014 Systems Affected Microsoft Windows Overview Ransomware is a type of malicious software (malware) that infects a computer and restricts access to it until a ransom is paid to unlock it. This Alert is the result of Canadian Cyber Incident Response...

Hey, folks! Does anybody know how I can prevent applications from opening my web browser with their specific URL? E.g. some uninstallers open a survey on the developer's homepage to ask you for the reason of the uninstallation. Or other links on an application's GUI that lead to some undesired...