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What’s the Score? National Vulnerability Database

computer service — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 20:27:26 +0000

Weakness Scoring System

Our Federal government division witin the Department of Commerce, under the National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST, has a National Vulnerability Databaase designed to help the public, and especially the technical administrators of IT systems to guage potential weaknesses or vulnerabilities in software and hardware systems.

NIST has been working with private industry and other public sector organizations to rate and maintain a catalog of IT threats. Originally started in 1999 under another name, and as an effort between NIST, SANS institute, and othrs, under the name ICAT or Internet Category Attack Toolkit. It evolved and even faced death by lack of budgets until rebranded as NVD in 2005 and supported more fully.

Example: 7.8 Severity Linux Vulnerability

This page is an excellent example of the use, and also of how technical it is. https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-46936

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Malvertising Ransonware – Don’t Click on That Ad

computer service — Wed, 23 Mar 2016 21:02:15 +0000

Major websites were hit by a “malvertising” attack that hijacked people’s computers and demanded ransom.

Something else to fear. Yes, just when you thought web advertising couldn’t be more annoying with slow page loading, pop-ups in the middle of that interesting article and more Viagra than you ever care the know about…comes Malvertising ransomware.

And it came in a big way as major websites that we trust and visit daily were hit by dangerous software hidden in advertisements. This software is a form of ransonware which encrypts data and holds it hostage – for a price.

Were you hit already? If so, the authorities say you’ll just have to pay up if you want your data back.

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Locky Ransomware – Data Lockout

Security Expert — Tue, 16 Feb 2016 22:11:56 +0000

Network Admins and network users beware… Have you heard about the new Locky ransomware? It encrypts your data on network shares using AES encryption even when they aren’t mapped. Locky changes filenames for encrypted files to make it more difficult to restore the right data.

Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center paid hackers about $17,000 worth in Bitcoin. And reporters at Forbes say Locky is infecting up to 90,000 network systems every day.

When Locky encrypts a file it will rename the file to the format [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”][unique_id][identifier].locky and creates ransom notes called _Locky_recover_instructions.txt.

So, please, BACKUP your data!

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