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Were these attacks real?
Before I got Bitdefender, I called a number that was supposed to be McAfee technical help but I came to suspect was a scam. The person I talked to had me give him control of my PC and then he quickly showed me a list of times my computer had been attacked recently. It was a long and impressive list! He said it would cost…
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Firewall notifications: incomplete information
I am getting notificacions of "brutefoce attack blocked", but the information is always incomplete since the "protocol" is missing: "Bruteforce attack blocked Feature: Online Threat Prevention Multiple failed login attempts were made by 94.232.43.10 using the protocol. We blocked the connection to stop the attacker from…
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Kremlin and Russia's TASS news agency websites offline following attacks
As widely anticipated, the conflict between Russia and Ukraine has heated up on cyberspace in the days since Vladimir Putin ordered his troops and tanks to invade. This weekend saw the Kremlin's official website at kremlin.ru brought down, along with other Russian government sites, in what appears to have been a…
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2022 Cybersecurity Predictions: What Can We Expect?
If 2022 is anything like 2021, cybersecurity personnel will be extremely busy this year. There is little doubt that the previous two years bear high-tide marks for ransomware. It is simple enough to find evidence of this. From high-profile breaches to major increases in attacks and attempted attacks, criminals are going…
