704-333-0404 Remote Support Our Services About Us Resources Contact Helpful Tech Articles From our team to yours, we want to demystify your tech questions. SUBSCRIBE TO EMAIL UPDATES SUBSCRIBE Controversial face matchers Clearview set to be fined over $20m by Netsafe Team | Nov 30, 2021 by Paul Ducklin The UK data protection regulator has announced its intention to issue a fine of £17m (about $23m) to controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI. Clearview AI, as you’ll know if you’ve read any of our numerous previous articles about the... Read More Cloud Security: Don’t wait until your next bill to find out about an attack! by Netsafe Team | Nov 26, 2021 by Paul Ducklin Google’s Cybersecurity Action Team just published the first ever edition of a bulletin entitled Cloud Threat Intelligence. The primary warnings are hardly surprising (regular Naked Security visitors will have read about them here for years), and boil... Read More S3 Ep60: Exchange exploit, GoDaddy breach and cookies made public [Podcast] by Netsafe Team | Nov 25, 2021 by Paul Ducklin [00’27”] Cybersecurity tips for the holiday season and beyond. [02’20”] Fun fact: The longest-lived Windows version ever. [03’40”] Exchange at risk from public exploit. [10’34”] GoDaddy loses passwords for 1.2m users. [18’25”] Tech history: What do you... Read More US government securities watchdog spoofed by investment scammers – don’t fall for it! by Netsafe Team | Nov 24, 2021 by Paul Ducklin The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued numerous warnings over the years about fraudsters attempting to adopt the identity of SEC officials, including by phone call spoofing. Call spoofing is where a scammer calls you up on your... Read More Check your patches – public exploit now out for critical Exchange bug by Netsafe Team | Nov 23, 2021 by Paul Ducklin At the start of this month, CVE-2021-42321 was technically an Exchange zero-day flaw. This bug could be exploited for unauthorised remote code execution (RCE) on Microsoft Exchange 2016 and 2019, and was patched in the November 2021 Patch Tuesday... Read More GoDaddy admits to password breach: check your Managed WordPress site! by Netsafe Team | Nov 22, 2021 by Paul Ducklin The US Securities and Equities Commission (SEC) has just published a “Security Incident” submitted last week by Web services behemoth GoDaddy. GoDaddy says that on 17 November 2021 it realised that there were cybercriminals in its network, kicked them... Read More Black Friday and Cyber Monday – here’s what you REALLY need to do! by Netsafe Team | Nov 22, 2021 by Paul Ducklin As we’ve explained before, the opposite (or perhaps we mean the inverse) of Black Friday wouldn’t be White Friday, it would be Red Friday. The word “black” in the context of the big retail surge that typically follows US Thanksgiving, which is always... Read More Github cookie leakage – thousands of Firefox cookie files uploaded by mistake by Netsafe Team | Nov 18, 2021 by Paul Ducklin Remember when people used to upload their SSH keys onto Github and similar code sharing sites by mistake? Two years ago, we wrote about the fact that incautious software developers had uploaded hundreds of thousands of private access control keys,... Read More S3 Ep59: Emotet, an FBI hoax, Samba bugs, and a hijackable suitcase [Podcast] by Netsafe Team | Nov 18, 2021 by Paul Ducklin [00’52”] Fun Fact: The dawn of the transistor [01’37”] Emotet malware: “The report of my death was an exaggeration” [08’26”] FBI email hack spreads fake security alerts [15’19”] Tech history: Why tubes are valves, and valves are tubes [16’44”] Samba... Read More « Older Entries Netsafe Solutions provides IT Services and Support at a fixed monthly rate. At Netsafe, everything we do starts with service! Follow : CONTACT INFORMATION Main Office: 8510 McAlpine Park Drive Suite 203 Charlotte, NC 28211 Call: (704) 333-0404 Copyright © 2020 Netsafe Solutions. All Rights Reserved.