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Petya – Not all Cryptoviruses are equal

The latest round of Cryptovirus hit yesterday. Petya, named after a similar virus, which shares very little with the original, hit with the same destructive force as the WannaCry virus last month, this...

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A New Phishing Threat

There is a new Phishing threat making the rounds which combine quite a bit of research on behalf of the attacker, along with a bit of social engineering. Over the last few weeks, a number of our...

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What you need to know about ‘Meltdown’ &‘Spectre’

Over the Christmas break, Intel has disclosed a security vulnerability within its processors. Google who initially found the issue, has released a statement which now shows further processor...

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VPNFilter – A sophisticated threat to businesses

2018 has seen a lot of new cyber threats. Hackers, scammers and the like are getting smarter. VPNFilter takes me back to the famous Stuxnet virus which infiltrated Iran’s nuclear program. VPNFilter is...

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Two-Factor Authentication

It’s always the way. I was meaning to write this post a couple of months ago, but as you do, you get busy. But in that time, there has been a lot of talk about two-factor authentication. This talk has...

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2018 In Review

2018 has been an interesting year at Layer3. We’ve kept our head down as we’ve been flat out implementing new services and on-boarding new customers. Layer3 has gone through a bit of a transformation...

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Collection #1 – The biggest data breach of all time

Over the last few days, the biggest data breach of all time has come to light. Collection #1 appears to be a set of information from a number of breaches. This information was being freely passed...

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Windows 7 – It’s all over, and soon!

It’s quite hard to believe that Windows 7 is now 10 years old – it seems like only yesterday that I installed it. Unfortunately, time is running out – it’s crunch time. Windows 7 goes ‘end of support’...

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Welcome to our new vLog / Layer3 vLog

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New Phishing Attack

This week we [Layer3] have seen a new phishing attack being launched within New Zealand, and it’s a zinger. Scammers and hackers are getting smarter. Have a good firewall, antivirus and spam filtering...

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