You can't say we didn't tell you…
I have this morning been reading about KNP – a Northamptonshire transport company that closed in 2023. One insecure password is believed to have been all it took for a ransomware gang to destroy a 158-year-old company and put 700 people out of work. This story on BBC news today is by way of a […] Read more »
Today we have had a whole batch of “Amazon” emails with zip file attachments, oh so convincing (at first glance) and, oh so easy to activate with an un-thinking mouseclick. This email arrived in between me emailing a complaint to an Amazon seller that the product they sent (& for my daughters birthday!), was not […] Read more »
If you read around the items here you will get a reasonable handle on the problem, we wrote about it here: http://www.cbits.co.uk/ourblog/news/fake-flash-player-update-virus-routers-tp-link/ In essence Malware based on Conduit Search infects a machine, this is then able to alter the search settings in certain routers, on TP-Link (TD-W8901, being common- It’s a huge seller so lots […] Read more »
What to do if you see this screen on you computer ! Disconnect Power from the Computer IMMEDIATELY If it’s mains pull the plug, if its a laptop hold down the power until it shuts off Disconnect from the internet (simply unplug your router from Phone line and power) Shut down any other PC’s (including […] Read more »
(Updated 6/3/14 am) This malware seems to be being delivered as a "Update to Flash Player", which we now think is changing settings in Routers so that ALL DEVICES on the local network are routing to conduit.com servers, we have seen routers where we set server addresses yesterday, and this morning the router DNS changed […] Read more »
I have always taken a fairly relaxed view about internet access, and we use a lot of services via the “web”, on-line banking, managing credit cards, buying from commercial suppliers, webmail, management of websites and customers etc etc. We do of course have a good level of security, all the obvious things, complex passwords, locked […] Read more »
“Good morning I am calling from Green IT we have been advised by Microsoft that your computer might have a virus”, goodness a virus on my PC ?? “Are you able to go to your PC now and I can talk you through sorting it out” (Fancy Microsoft being concerned about helping little old me […] Read more »
