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What Now? How Small Businesses Should Respond to Data Breaches
Let’s say the worst has happened, and your business has experienced a data breach. Do you know how to react? What steps do you need to take to ensure your business and client data is recovered and secured?
The Federal Trade Commission has a few recommendations you should know about.
- Take all affected equipment offline.
- Consult a security expert.
- Instruct all users to change their login credentials.
- Check your website.
- Consult legal counsel and law enforcement.
Learn more.
TeamViewer Rushes Fix for Permissions Bug
Remote support software company TeamViewer said Tuesday it issued a hotfix for a bug that allows users sharing a desktop session to gain control of the other’s computer without permission.
Patches will be delivered automatically to those customers that have configured TeamViewer to accept automatic updates. However, patches could take up to three to seven days before the update is installed. Users that do not have automatic updates set will be notified an update is available.
Check out the specifics.
Feds shut down allegedly fraudulent cryptocurrency offering
The Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday announced that it was taking action against an initial coin offering (ICO) that the SEC alleges is fraudulent. The announcement represents the first enforcement action by the SEC's recently created cyber fraud unit.
The SEC's complaint, filed in federal court in New York, is against Dominic Lacroix, whom the SEC describes as a "recidivist securities law violator."The SEC considers Lacroix's cryptocurrency project, PlexCoin, to be a "fast-moving Initial Coin Offering (ICO) fraud that raised up to $15 million from thousands of investors since August by falsely promising a 13-fold profit in less than a month."
Get the details.
World Police Shut Down Andromeda (Gamarue) Botnet
Law enforcement agencies across the globe and members of the private sector announced today they shut down the Andromeda (Gamarue or Wauchos) botnet.
According to telemetry data gathered by Microsoft, at the time it was shut down, the Andromeda botnet delivered 80 different malware families to victims during the last six months. During that period, Microsoft says it saw an average of one million computers per month infected with the Andromeda malware.
BleepingComputer has the full scoop.
Largest Cryptocurrency Mining Market NiceHash Hacked
In a statement published on social media, NiceHash, a crypto-mining marketplace, said hackers breached its site and stole all the Bitcoin from its main wallet.
Site operators said they are still working to evaluate the total number of Bitcoin funds that were stolen, but users who had earnings stolen said Bitcoin funds were rerouted to a wallet address currently storing 4,736.42 Bitcoin — over $62,6 million at today's Bitcoin price ($13,450).
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