UniComData Blogs

Businesses are constantly looking for exploitable holes in their security systems to protect themselves from hackers. But while your focus may currently be on the security of your employees’ laptops and smartphones, it appears that the very heart of your corporation could have been left wide open.
Boston based Rapid7 is a security company that specializes [...]

[Read more →]

With high-speed internet now common in many parts of the world, many users have taken to watching films and videos via online streaming. Unfortunately, cyber-crooks have begun taking advantage of the trend.
BitDefender researchers recently spotted a bogus online video player titled Web Player, being offered to users searching for media players through Google.
The player [...]

[Read more →]

Researchers analyze framesniffing, an attack technique that can mine sensitive data through web browsers and iFrames
Framesniffing isn’t a typical cyber-attack. It doesn’t seek to deposit a Trojan or rootkit on the target computer.
Instead it simply harvests private data that can subsequently be amalgamated and used for different purposes: for example to build a detailed personality [...]

[Read more →]

A new study seems to confirm the worst in people, revealing that people who found a lost smartphone violated the loser’s privacy a whopping 89 percent of the time. And they weren’t just seeking a phone number or email address: On nearly half of those phones, the finder attempted to access the owner’s online banking [...]

[Read more →]

Passwords are an integral part of securing both IT systems and online accounts. In order to keep your system and information safe, it is important to take the time to create strong passwords that hackers and online thieves won’t easily figure out.
If you think using ‘password’ as your password is no big deal, then it’s [...]

[Read more →]

NOTE: This is the largest of the 15 breaches in the education sector year-to-date, comprising the lion’s share of the 23,930 records exposed. And these are only breaches that have been reported to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, commonly thought to be a mere fraction of total breaches that have actually occurred in the U.S.
University [...]

[Read more →]

Electronic medical record (EMR) implementations aren’t always simple—especially for small physician groups, which may lack dedicated information technology resources. However, following a few best practices regarding your constituents can help ensure that the process proceeds smoothly. Here are three.
Personalize for physicians. No two physicians are exactly like, so no two physicians should have to do [...]

[Read more →]

An electronic medical record (EMR) implementation isn’t just about replacing paper charts with digital technology. EMRs also provide a perfect opportunity to review and improve your workflows. The result can be increased efficiencies—which means decreased costs.
Your medical practice has probably been doing things the same way for a long time. Maybe you think you do [...]

[Read more →]

It seems that the newest botnet, named THOR and coded by TheGrimReap3r, is being offered for sale at $8,000 on the criminal underground.
THOR does not use a central command and control (C&C) server. It has a decentralized architecture based on peer-to-peer (P2P) technology. P2P botnets are the latest innovation in the battle being waged by [...]

[Read more →]

The growing popularity of tax preparation software has led to a rise in e-mail scams targeted at do-it-yourself taxpayers. Intuit, parent of TurboTax and numerous other tax preparation products, has seen a “marked increase” this year in reports of fraudulent e-mails that claim to come from it, says spokeswoman Julie Miller.
Recent examples of bogus e-mails [...]

[Read more →]