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Alvaka Networks is growing and moving into new Irvine offices – T minus 6 days
Irvine, CA – Construction is going fast. The flooring is already going in. We are located just adjacent to the 405 Freeway between the MacArthur Blvd. and Bristol Street exits. You can see the building as you drive by, but regretfully we don’t have freeway signage. We are one mile west on Main Street from our colocation facility.
Flying out of John Wayne Airport will be easy for us. We only need to walk about 100 yards to the long-term parking and jump on the shuttle to the airport.
T minus 6 days to moving-in. Click Here for the Pictures
Alvaka Networks is growing and moving into new Irvine offices - T minus 6 days
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Alvaka Networks is growing and moving into larger new Irvine offices
Irvine, CA - We are not going too far. We are only moving about two miles. We are now adjacent to the overflow/long-term parking for the John Wayne/SNA Airport. We are at the corner of Main Street and Redhill at 2 Executive Circle in Irvine.
Everyone at Alvaka is really excited to be moving into our new larger headquarters. Here are a few pictures of the new space after demolition and before the new construction starts. These photos show some of the painting that just started.
T minus 7 days to moving-in. Click Here for the Pictures
Alvaka Networks is growing and moving into new Irvine offices - T minus 6 days
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A three bullet summary of your current e-mail threats
Proofpoint Threat Operations and Research recently published their quarterly threat report for July - September 2016, which includes key findings such as:
- Volume of malicious emails rose to their highest levels ever
New campaigns bearing varied attachment types broke volume records set in Q2, peaking at hundreds of millions of messages per day. JavaScript attachments continued to lead these very large email campaigns, growing 69% this quarter.
- Ransomware variants grew tenfold
In particular, 97% of messages with malicious document attachments featured the popular ransomware strain Locky, while CryptXXX was the dominant ransomware delivered by exploit kit (EK).
- Threat actors adjusted tactics in business email compromise (BEC) attacks
In BEC attacks, “display-name spoofing” increased to almost 1-in-3 BEC messages, gaining ground on instances of “reply-to spoofing,” suggesting that BEC actors continue to adjust techniques.
Download the full report. Please let us know if you have any questions related to this report or how Alvaka Networks can protect your people and data from attacks.
Beware of this new domain name and SEO registration scam
Orange County, CA - I want to thank Alvaka network engineer Alex Estevez for bringing the e-mail below to my attention. One of his clients got this bogus message from GoDaddy. The scams on the internet know no ends for creativity and treachery.
This message looks so authentic and it can be so easy to go ahead and pay for a scam renewal and give up your domain login credentials too. Once you give up those credentials the thief(s) can potentially sell your domain name. For many businesses that would be devastating even if it only lasted a short time while the theft gets corrected. On top of the charge on your card they could potentially sell your credit card information as well.
Alex said, “What made me suspicious was the fact that the email came from a company called “Intranetregistrarnetwork.com” which just sounded bogus to me.“ That site is now shutdown, but count on another one to pop-up soon.
Here is what the e-mail looked like. As you can see it looks quite legitimate. It does not contain the spelling errors and poor grammar associated with so many e-mail scams....
Cracking your passwords just got faster and easier than ever, here’s how….
Orange County, CA – I just read about a new product announcement, New version of L0phtCrack makes cracking Windows passwords easier than ever. At Alvaka we used to do a hacking demo during a lunch and learn. Rex Frank would usually do the demo by doing a SQL Injection attack and bumping out to the command prompt. From there he would download the SAM (Security Access Manager) file and then use L0phtCrack to decode a password right in front of the eyes of everyone. Nearly everyone was shocked beyond compare. Of course that approach is now a bit dated, but it showed our guests just how vulnerable unpatched and inadequately secured systems can be. From the start of the demo to the revelation of an account password would only take five o
Data Privacy: What are the Risks?
If you are handling PII (Personally Identifiable Information) for your clients or anyone else you should read this article. It is delivered in the context of a sweepstakes type of program, but it is applicable [...]
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