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News for August 22, 2022
Browser Extensions Malwareby Artie Kaye Browser extensions are addons to a browser which change the functionality. There are some that are designed to pose as legitimate offerings, even naming themselves as such. A malicious extension can function just like any other piece of malware, collecting cookies, harvesting personal information like passwords and user names, or…
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News Week Ending May 1, 2022
Discord Phishingby Artie Kaye Discord is a program used by many to keep in touch on phones or PC. Because of how Discord runs on these devices, malicious people have found methods of gaining access to other people’s devices through links and images sent over the program. Usually, there will be a claim for a…
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News Week Ending March 27, 2022
HP UEFI Firmware Patchby Artie Kaye To start with, what is UEFI? UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface)is the successor to the BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) on motherboards. It is the program that tells the motherboard how to work in relation to the various hardware connected to it. Because this exists outside of any operating system…