The Lighthouse IT Podcast - February 12th, 2021

Join Matt and Griffin as they discuss Nick Cage (as usual) as well as how the giant trojan Emotet got hit pretty hard by a multinational attack and the really cool stuff Matt is doing to bring Harmony to businesses everywhere.

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Topics: Harmony, Managed Service Provider, Internet Safety, Ransomware, Cybersecurity, Malware, Remote Workforce, Podcast

The Lighthouse IT Podcast - January 29th, 2021

This week, Matt and Griffin discuss the upcoming death of the third-party cookie within Google Chrome and the concerns associated with that, some recent exploits in Apple's iOS (upgrade to 14.4 if you haven't already), the increase in identity fraud we are seeing, and why this Super Bowl may have some very weird commercials. Take a listen!

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Topics: Internet Safety, Ransomware, Cybersecurity, Malware, Podcast, Digital Marketing

The Lighthouse IT Podcast - DECEMBER 11th, 2020

This week, Matt and Griffin go over the recent attack on the huge cyber security company, FireEye and their Red Team tools. In marketing news, they cover some developments in the influencer marketing world as well as interesting Daytime TV statistics.

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Security News

FireEye and their Red Team tools

The cybersecurity giant, FireEye, was recently hit with a cyber attack in which there was unauthorized access to their suite of tools used to evaluate the security posture of enterprise systems. In other words, this highly sophisticated threat actor took tools from this company who could then use them maliciously. Luckly, FireEye has released two blog posts with more information and a GitHub repository for detection countermeasures. This was certainly an expensive incident for them though, as well as embarrassing, time consuming, and stressful.

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Topics: Internet Safety, Ransomware, Cybersecurity, Malware, Downtime, Podcast

Lighthouse IT Solutions has always wanted you to be well informed and well protected. As much as we hate to be the bearers of bad news, we need to warn you about the new cyber threat that is TrickBoot. (The amount of cybersecurity threats has only gotten more plentiful this year. Check out the Lighthouse IT Podcast to stay up-to-date.)

What is TrickBoot?

TrickBoot is the latest instrument in the TrickBot malware repertoire and potentially one of the most dangerous as it capable of discovering vulnerabilities in firmware and enabling attackers to then read, write or even erase the firmware on the device. Typically, when a device is infected with malware, one of the safest methods you can use to remove it is by wiping the device and then restoring the important data from a backup. However with this method, the firmware of the device is unaffected. If malware is hiding well enough, then wiping the device means the malware is not removed.

Topics: Harmony, Internet Safety, Ransomware, Cybersecurity, Malware, TrickBoot