Security Alert – Microsoft warns of vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer and Windows Defender

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Microsoft is urging users of Windows 10 to update immediately. The flaw lies in Internet Explorer and allows an attacker to potentially install software, modify/view/delete data or even create new accounts. The vulnerability was found by a security engineer with Google's Threat Analysis Group. The … Read More

Security Alert – Update Warning for Microsoft Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10

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At SandStorm IT, we typically suggest doing all updates (especially Operating System) as they become available to avoid security vulnerabilities, In the latest batch of Microsoft updates, there were some "known issues". In this security alert, we'll cover "What's the issue?", "What versions of … Read More

Security Alert: Grammarly browser extension leaks everything you’ve ever typed into the service.

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According to the Chromium.org report, around 22 million users are affected: "The Grammarly chrome extension (approx ~22M users) exposes it's auth tokens to all websites, therefore any website can login to grammarly.com as you and access all your documents and other data. I'm calling this a high … Read More

Data Breach: Almost 20 Million Patient’s Data Stolen in 2 Separate Medical Laboratory Data Breaches

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Just a few days after Quest Diagnostics reported that a data breach compromised the information of 11.9 million patients, LabCorp is reporting that it was breached as well, affecting 7.7 million additional records.   What happened? An unauthorized user installed malicious code on the payment … Read More

Remote Desktop Vulnerability discovered in Windows XP, Windows 2003 & Windows 7.

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A recent update from Microsoft addresses a vulnerability in the Remote Desktop Service used in older versions of Windows, namely Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows 7. Given that both XP and Windows Server 2003 has been End-of-Life for a few years now, this is an unusual action for … Read More