All posts by Patrick Domingues
DuckDuckGo better than Google for privacy
#1 — Google tracks you. DuckDuckGo Doesn’t You share your most intimate secrets with your search engine without even thinking: medical, financial and personal issues, along with all the day to day things that make you, well, you. All of that personal information should be private, but on Google it’s not. On Google, your searches…
Mac Malware Injects Ads Into Encrypted Traffic
A newly discovered malware infection targeting macOS devices. Malwarebytes security researchers say it has the ability of injecting ads into encrypted web traffic. This malware is call OSX.SearchAwesome, the malware is delivered by a malicious installer that arrives as an app downloaded using a torrent file. The malware installer looks like a disk image file but doesn’t have…
How To Fix RDP Connection Was Denied
Learn how to troubleshoot and resolve the “RDP connection was denied” error. Fix issues preventing remote desktop access with simple steps and solutions.
Marriott Data Breach hits 500 million Starwood Guests
Marriott Data Breach hits 500 million Starwood guests. It was said that during the investigation, there had been unauthorized access to the Starwood network since 2014. The information copied from the Starwood guest database over all this time were names, mailing addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, passport numbers, Starwood Preferred Guest (“SPG”) account information, dates…
Attempted Breach on DELL EMC Network
There was an attempted breach on DELL EMC customers using Dell.com. The company has been stressing customers to change their passwords. Dell cybersecurity teams are still not sure on how hackers got access to the information on the website. They are not sure if it was due to vulnerabilities or other causes. But it was…
Hackers Breach Dunkin’ Donuts Accounts
Tuesday Dunkin’ Donuts posted an advisory on the website regarding to its credential stuffing attack on the companies data. What does This Credential Stuffing mean? Credential stuffing is a term related to a specific type of hacking that secures user credentials by breaching a system, and then attempts to use those credentials with other systems. Like other kinds of…
Microsoft Warns of Apps Exposing Private Keys
On Tuesday Microsoft notified users that digital certificates have been compromised for two apps which allowed someone to remotely spoof websites and content. The issue was that the certificate and private key were the same for anyone who installed these two applications. Which allowed a hacker to decrypt the software’s private key which compromised the…
How to Uninstall the Kaseya Agent from Macs.
How to remove Kaseya Agent from Macs can be a challenge sometimes hopefully these few simple steps can assist you on removing the agent successfully. Applies to: All VSA’s. Download the following package and extract the zip contents. KaseyaUninstall.pkg.zip 10 KB Download Run the KaseyaUninstall.pkg installer and choose to Install to the Macintosh Harddrive. Although this appears to be…
Octobers HealthCare.gov Data Breach Exposed Individuals Personal Information
Octobers HealthCare.gov Data Breach Exposed Individuals Personal Information. The details that were surfaced about the data breach said that around 75,000 consumers were effected. Letters were sent out to affected people from the Centers for medicare and Medicaid Services and it said that the sensitive data exposed may have included Social Security numbers and a…
Maintaining Security with Internet of Things
Our lives have been taken over with many many WiFi enabled capable devices. The internet of things (IoT) has quite a flaw which is security. Many vendors lax on providing security updates to their software that are used in smartphones, tablets, PC’s , Game Consoles , TV’s , your Fridge and many other devices. This…