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    What are the chances of an attacker recovering my data on a “quick formatted” hard drive?

    Long story short, a while ago, I bought and returned a hard drive that still had sensitive information on it including social security number, passwords to online accounts, etc. At the time, I thought that I removed all the information on the hard drive because I quick formatted it a few times...
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    • Forum: Windows Hardware
  2. News

    AA20-266A: LokiBot Malware

    Original release date: September 22, 2020 Summary This Alert uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK®) framework. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise frameworks for all referenced threat actor techniques. This product was written by the Cybersecurity and...
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    • Forum: Security Alerts
  3. Mike

    VIDEO How to Prevent Online Identity Theft: An Early Look

    A recent look at computer security shows online identity theft scams becoming easy for nefarious individuals who prey on those who lack essential security updates. Anyone experienced in the business need only to look at the serious manner of many, many businesses still running Windows XP without...
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    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Security
  4. Captain Jack

    Windows 7 Hackers Access McDonald's Customer Data

    An unknown number of Link Removed after authorities discovered that hackers broke into one of the company's business partner's databases and stole information. Computerworld quotes a McDonald's spokeswoman as saying: We have been informed by one of our long-time business partners, Arc...
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    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Windows Security
  5. reghakr

    Windows 7 Spam Spreading ZBot Masquerades as Outlook Update

    ATTACKS & ACTIVE EXPLOITS Spam masquerading as a Microsoft Outlook security and stability update actually infects computers with ZBot, a Trojan horse program that steals sensitive information. The malware contains a list of financial institution and social networking sites; if users visit any...
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    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Software
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