Secure San Diego

Now that school is out for most kids around San Diego, do you as parents know what they are doing on the computer while you are away at work? For most parents this would be a “no”.

Well I have updated the page for protecting your family here. I have included some information about a product that I use and have loved since installing it.

K9 Web Protection software is a great piece of software and best of all it is free. Visit the page and check it out.

Tags: Keeping Kids Safe, Protecting Family, Tips N Tricks

Recently there has been some talk about a new “ransomware” that is out and infecting people. The virus is called Virus.Win32.Gpdoce.ak a little information can be found here. In short this virus once executed will search the users hard drive for files to encrypt.

Once your files are encrypted it places a text file in every directory that contains encrypted files.

Your files are encrypted with RSA-1024 algorithm.
To recovery your files you need to buy our decryptor.
To buy decrypting tool contact us at: [censored]@yahoo.com

=== BEGIN ===
[key]
=== END ===

At this time Antivirus vendors are looking for looking for a solution at this time. Kapersky Lab’s seems to be leading the effort here. If you are a code breaker you can go here for more info.

Solutions to help (before this happens to you)

• Backup your data regularly
• Keep a fair amount of back ups
• And what ever you do to not store them on the PC that could become effected, keep them off line via CD/DVD or an external Hard Drive that you keep unplugged from your system

More information and references

http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=4544
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1259
http://people.csail.mit.edu/tromer/gpcode/
http://usa.kaspersky.com/about-us/news-press-releases.php?smnr_id=900000131
http://www.viruslist.com/en/viruses/encyclopedia?virusid=313444

Tags: Malware, Ransomware, Virus

I am going to be putting together some tips and tricks for people to use as well as a little definition section.

Take a look at the pages in the Tips N Tricks area and place a comment on any other areas that might need to be covered.

Tags: Tips N Tricks

Let’s Hope I can keep up with posting on this blog

Tags: Initial Post