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CompPower has grown significantly into a mid-sized professional services consultancy providing IT and Telecommunications services for some of the global largest companies throughout Australia, Europe and the Middle-East. We help you identify and tackle your technologies challenges driving value to your organisation. Our diverse technical and management experiences means you can have a single solut

ion partner across your whole IT and Telecommunications project delivery lifecycle. CompPower’s consultants hold a wide set of accreditations in IT, Telecommunications, project management and business administration.

Computers at Russian media outlets and Ukraine's transport hubs were among Windows PCs infected and shut down today by a...
25/10/2017

Computers at Russian media outlets and Ukraine's transport hubs were among Windows PCs infected and shut down today by another fast-spreading strain of ransomware.

Corporate systems within Interfax and two other major Russian news publishers had their files encrypted and held to ransom by malware dubbed BadRabbit. In Ukraine, Odessa airport, the Kiev metro, and the Ministry of Infrastructure were also hit by the extortionware, which demands Bitcoins to restore scrambled documents.

BadRabbit may also have spread to Turkey, Bulgaria and beyond, and is a variant of Diskcoder, according to researchers at ESET. Antivirus maker Avast detected it in Poland and South Korea, too.

"Interfax Group's servers have come under a hacker attack. The technical department is taking all measures to resume news services. We apologize for inconvenience," Interfax said in a statement.

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Ransomware breeds through Windows networks via SMB, fake Flash

28/07/2017

The tech press has been predicting the death of Flash for years—HTML5 was hailed as the Flash-killer, except it took the standard a while to mature to the point where it could compete head-on with Flash, Steve Jobs insisted iOS devices would never support it, and several major browsers have started not playing Flash content by default. In those cases, users must manually click to play Flash on websites. Even so, Flash seemed poised to stick around forever as some kind of a tech zombie—a number of gaming, educational and video applications continue to rely heavily on the technology—much the same way client-side Java applets and Windows XP just won’t die.

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Support for Flash Player will end in 2020, so now is the time for website owners to migrate from it.

Analysis It is now increasingly clear that the global outbreak of a file-scrambling software nasty targeting Microsoft W...
28/06/2017

Analysis It is now increasingly clear that the global outbreak of a file-scrambling software nasty targeting Microsoft Windows PCs was designed not to line the pockets of criminals, but spread merry mayhem.

The malware, dubbed NotPetya because it masquerades as the Petya ransomware, exploded across the world on Tuesday, taking out businesses from shipping ports and supermarkets to ad agencies and law firms. Once inside a corporate network, this well-oiled destructive program worms its way from computer to computer, encrypting the infected machines' filesystems.

Although it demands about $300 in Bitcoin to unscramble the hostage data, the mechanisms put in place to collect this money from victims quickly disintegrated. Despite the slick programming behind the fast-spreading malware, little effort or thought was put into pocketing the loot, it appears.

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This isn't ransomware – it's merry chaos

A password manager is an excellent first step in securing your online identity, helping you increase the strength of the...
26/06/2017

A password manager is an excellent first step in securing your online identity, helping you increase the strength of the passwords that protect your online accounts because it will remember those passwords for you. A password manager will generate a unique strong password for every account and application, without requiring you to memorize or write down these random strings of characters. These strong passwords help shield against traditional password attacks such as dictionary, rainbow tables, or brute-force attacks.

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Look to these top password managers for Windows, MacOS, iOS and Android to make your online life easier and more secure.

Getting the billions of devices connected will be no small task. The thought of all the IoT applications of all that dat...
26/06/2017

Getting the billions of devices connected will be no small task. The thought of all the IoT applications of all that data is nothing less than seductive. Cities will self-regulate motor vehicle and public transportation saving commuters hours of travel time. Sensors will alert us and doctors when mom is not keeping to her pharmaceutical regimen.

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Connecting the billions of IoT devices will take a lot of application specific network engineering.

Users are being tricked into giving away their PayPal credentials, payment card details, and most significantly a selfie...
19/06/2017

Users are being tricked into giving away their PayPal credentials, payment card details, and most significantly a selfie holding their ID card.

Security researchers from PhishMe say hackers are relying on spam emails to drive users towards this PayPal phishing page hosted on a compromised WordPress site from New Zealand.

Once users enter their logins the phisher asks for more details including the user's card details and the picture of their ID card.

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A similar phishing scam hit the company's users in February this year.

“The discussion about IoT has shifted away from the number of devices connected,” according to Carrie MacGillivray, IDC’...
18/06/2017

“The discussion about IoT has shifted away from the number of devices connected,” according to Carrie MacGillivray, IDC’s vice-president of internet of things (IoT), with actionable data within the devices now the key.

It is this focus, she said, that saw a change in IDC’s predictions of where the industry is going, and how costly it will prove to be.

The company now forecasts worldwide spending on IoT to grow 16.7pc this year, reaching more than $800bn by the end of 2017.

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Industrial IoT will drive investment into the tech space, with growth speeding up and global spending expected to reach $1.4trn by 2021.

Malicious threat actors are increasingly looking to exploit the growing fear and hysteria surrounding the notorious Wann...
16/06/2017

Malicious threat actors are increasingly looking to exploit the growing fear and hysteria surrounding the notorious WannaCry ransomware with fake "protectors" and malware-laden antivirus apps. In May, the massive WannaCry cyberattack crippled companies across the globe, ensnared more than 300,000 computers in 150 countries and encrypted millions of user files in exchange for a ransom.

According to cybersecurity firm RiskIQ, predators are now looking to exploit the rising threat of cyberattacks to drive downloads of useless and often malware-carrying mobile apps masquerading as antivirus applications.

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Researchers said 20% of total blacklisted antivirus apps are residing in the Google Play Store.

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