Category: News

Source: ‘Onliner’ malware spambot targets 711 million email accounts

Trivially exploitable vulnerabilities in Arris home modems, routers and gateways distributed to consumers through AT&T’s U-verse service have been discovered.

Source: Bugs in Arris Modems Distributed by AT&T Vulnerable to Trivial Attacks

Hackers are already trying to crack your Apple ID. But don’t worry, it’s easy to protect against getting hacked with just a few steps.

Source: How to stop your iCloud and Apple ID getting hacked | Cult of Mac

Researchers from Positive Technologies — a provider of enterprise security solutions — have found a way to disable the Intel Management Engine (ME), a much-hated component of Intel CPUs.

Source: Researchers Find a Way to Disable Much-Hated Intel ME Component Courtesy of the NSA

In the theory of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, there are five main facets: psychological, safety, love/belonging, esteem, and self-actualization. Safety Needs regards security and stability. It is considered one of our basic needs as a human. Even though preserving possessions isn’t as vital as something like job security, we have all experienced a freak-out moment when we forgot to save an important document in Word or think we have a virus on your computer.

Overall, protecting material possessions is important. Whether it’s your home or your electronic devices, there are different steps to help protect your important possessions. Typically, people have a security alarm for their homes. It is just as important to have an alarm system on your computer. Antivirus functions as a defense mechanism for your computer files, hard drive, and personal information.

Antivirus helps detect and protect your computer against viruses, worms, trojan horses, and unwanted visitors. These codes delete important files, corrupt hard and flash drives, access your personal data, and even use your computer as a segue to destroying other computers.

At CPR, we use Emsisoft virus protection because it provides excellent results and offers prime security solutions. The advantages of using Emsisoft are:

• Quick response time
• Checks a large amount of data in the least amount of time
• Proactively detects new malware
• Low system impact

Big names like Canon, Toshiba, T-Mobile, Deloitte, and Hondo trust Emsisoft software to protect their highly valuable data. In our experience using Emsisoft, it has been effective for us and our clients!

At CPR, we are rolling out a better offering for customers looking to protect their computers. We are offering a Checkup package that includes Emsisoft antivirus and monitoring for $15/month.

Not sure whether you already have a virus or have any questions regarding antivirus? Give us a call and let us take a look at your device. We will help your protect your computer and get back to where it needs to be!