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    NEWS Australian horse riding organisations caught up in cyber attack impacting 10,000 people

    Cyber criminals have followed through on their threats of leaking the sensitive details of 10,000 people, after the company refused to bow to their extortion attempts. Cyber criminals have targeted yet another Australian small business by stealing and leaking the data of 10,000 people. Last...
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    • Forum: The Water Cooler
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    Question About Scammers and Remote Access to Computers

    I am using Windows 10 Home Edition on a Lenovo laptop. Today, my Epson printer would not connect to my laptop via wi-fi, and after trying a lot of things (updating the printer drivers, turning the computer and printer off and back on, updating printer firmware, etc.), I gave up trying to fix it...
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    • Forum: General Computing
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    Windows 10 Windows 10 Sharing of EFS encrypted files stopped working

    I have three computers (Dell Desktop XPS-8700), HP laptop Envy X360 M6-AQ105DX, and Microsoft Surface Pro 4). The surface Pro 4 has Bitlocker disabled. All three run Windows 10 Pro and have SSDs as their main drives. The desktop has a secondary spinning drive and the Surface Pro 4 has a, SDXC...
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    • bitlocker computer issues data access dell xps efs encrypted files file explorer file permissions file sharing home group hp envy network adapters network reset permission errors reboot problems sensitive information ssd surface pro troubleshooting windows 10
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Windows Networking
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    TA15-337A: Dorkbot

    Original release date: December 03, 2015 Systems Affected Microsoft Windows Overview Dorkbot is a botnet used to steal online payment, participate in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, and deliver other types of malware to victims’ computers. According to Microsoft, the family of...
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    • Forum: Security Alerts
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    TA15-119A: Top 30 Targeted High Risk Vulnerabilities

    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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    • Forum: Security Alerts
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    Windows 7 asking for thoughts on posting a sensitive doc to a cloud

    Hello to all, I have a word doc with sensitive info. I've used Windows to encrypt the document. I want to be able to share and update this doc from various platforms: win7 pc, win8 pc, surface etc. Seems to me this doc belongs on OneDrive, but my question to you is, how secure would...
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    • cloud storage data protection document sharing encryption onedrive security sensitive information surface windows 7 windows 8
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    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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    Windows 7 'FIRST ever' Linux, Mac OS X-only password sniffing Trojan spotted !

    Security researchers have discovered a potential dangerous Linux and Mac OS X cross-platform trojan. Once installed on a compromised machine, Wirenet-1 opens a backdoor to a remote command server, and logs key presses to capture passwords and sensitive information typed by victims. 'FIRST ever'...
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    • backdoor command server key logging linux mac os x password security sensitive information sniffing trojan
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    • Forum: Windows Security
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    Windows 7 Understanding Encryption – What is Encryption?

    What is the Definition of Encryption? How Does Encryption Work?
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    • Forum: Windows Security
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    Windows 7 Extracting USB Artifacts from Windows 7

    Link Removed - Invalid URL USBDeview - View all installed/connected USB devices on your systemView any installed/connected USB device on your system Link Removed The article discusses some of the artifacts that a USB storage device leaves on a system when it has been plugged in, how...
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    • Forum: Windows Tutorials
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    Windows 7 Intel Website Compromised through SQL InjectionCredit card data possibly at risk

    Link Removed - Invalid URL A hacker has discovered an SQL injection flaw in a website owned by Intel. According to the attacker, the vulnerability can be exploited to access sensitive information, including credit card details, stored in the underlying database. The proof of concept attack...
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    • Forum: Windows Security
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    Windows 7 Securely Wipe a Dead Hard Drive

    Link Removed Dwma needs to return a dead hard drive to the manufacturer, and asked the Answer Line forum for a way to first remove sensitive data. Hard drives almost always contain some potentially compromising information, such as credit card and social security numbers. You should always...
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    • Forum: Windows Security
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