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May 20, 2017
EternalRocks leaves backdoor trojan for remote access to infected machines
What we know so far The WannaCry ransomware worm outbreak from last Friday week used just one of the leaked NSA exploit tools, ETERNALBLUE, which exploits vulnerabilities in the SMBv1...
Kieran Laffan
2 min read
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May 15, 2017
Why did last Friday's ransomware infection spread globally so fast?
Ransomware is a type of malware that encrypts your data and asks for you to pay a ransom to restore access to your files. Cyber criminals usually request that the...
Kieran Laffan
3 min read
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Oct 24, 2016
SQL Server Best Practices, Part II: Virtualized Environments
It is 2016 and some people still think SQL Server cannot be run on a virtual machine. SQL Server can successfully run in a VM but SQL is resource-intensive by...
Kieran Laffan
8 min read
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Aug 02, 2016
SQL Server Best Practices, Part I: Configuration
Am I the only one who finds the Microsoft SQL server best practice guides to be a little painful to trawl through? Somehow, I doubt it. After being frustrated reading...
Kieran Laffan
7 min read
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Nov 10, 2015
A Brief History of Ransomware
Ransomware’s Early Days The first documented and purported example of ransomware was the 1989 AIDS Trojan, also known as PS Cyborg1. Harvard-trained evolutionary biologist Joseph L. Popp sent 20,000 infected...
Kieran Laffan
5 min read