David Ruchman

powersolution.com Supports ‘Jersey Guys’ NJMEP Fundraiser

powersolution.com is proud to support and attend the 8th annual Jersey Guys Golf outing hosted by NJMEP and the Team Eagle Foundation. All proceeds from the event go toward supporting scholarships and education grants that will benefit groups such as the NJMEP Summer Jobs Program, FIRST Robotics, County College of Morris, veterans’ groups, Boy and …

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Phishing Campaign Delivers Ransomware to Teachers’ Devices

Researchers from Proofpoint, a well-known email security vendor that provides anti-spam, anti-malware, and phishing protection services, observed a spear-phishing campaign, codenamed “employer21,” targeting teachers. The campaign delivers emails teachers purported to be from parents or guardians attempting to deliver a student’s assignment after issues submitting the assignment the “usual way.” Typically a ZIP attachment accompanies …

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Email Best Practices

Email is a commonly used method of communication in both academic institutions and the corporate world. It is important to be vigilant about what is clicked on, downloaded, and transmitted, especially with the increase in social engineering tactics and spoofed domains. Threat actors may send phishing emails that appear to be from a trusted classmate, …

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Cyberthreats targeting municipalities are on the rise

Local governments are increasingly being targeted by cyber threats. These attacks typically come in the form on ransomware, holding the municipalities’ data hostage until either the ransom is paid or data is restored from a backup. Examples of ransomware attacks in 2019: June 20, 2019: Riviera Beach, Florida, discloses ransomware attack and payment. May 7, 2019: City …

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Department of Homeland Security Phishing Scam

The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) is the Nation’s flagship cyber defense, incident response, and operational integration center. Its mission is to reduce the Nation’s risk of systemic cybersecurity and communications challenges. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has released a statement indicating that an email phishing campaign is in the wild that …

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Advanced Phishing Threat: malicious emails posing as Adobe Acrobat or Microsoft Office365 message

We have received numerous reports and examples today of an advanced phishing email being used to harvest Office365 credentials. The email is sent through a compromised account of an individual that is familiar, such as a colleague, business partner, vendor, etc. The attacker gets your email address from the compromised mailbox and then sends you …

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773 million records of email addresses were breached – Have you been pwned?

Today, one of the largest data breach data sets was released containing roughly 773 million unique records of email addresses and passwords. Microsoft Regional Director and MVP Troy Hunt obtained the original data set, titled ‘Collection #1’ from a hacker forum. The original data set contained 2,692,818,238 rows of email addresses and passwords. That’s right, …

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