Overview - What Excalibur does
Founded in Silicon Valley, Excalibur has over twenty five years of experience managing IT and cultivating relationships with proven technology vendors. These long-standing vendor relationships provide expert product knowledge and create substantial discounts, reducing your cost of acquisition. We provide product and service marketing consultation in Branding, Strategy, Artistic Direction, Market Study, and Focus Group Analysis.
Latest IT Bulletins
| New Mac Threat |
| A new era has dawned in the Mac universe and it's not a good one. Recently, a toolkit was released to facilitate the construction of malware for Macs that mimics many of the "socially-engineered" Windows malware approaches. In particular, if your Mac suddenly pops up a window claiming you are infected (possibly showing a screen that looks like your Apple Mail application), and that you must download "Mac Defender" (or some such other whizzy name)--DON'T DO IT!!! |
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| It's not a matter of "if" only a matter of "when"... |
| Like the headline says--the era of more aggressive Mac exploits fueled by handy "malware" kits developed by cretins of all sorts and sizes has arrived to imperil the unwary and previously safer Mac OS X user. The URL below links to author Dan Goodin's article on The Register UK: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/03/mac_osx_crimeware_kit/ |
| Security Bulletin |
| In what may be one of the largest data thefts in history, Epsilon of Dallas TX, a legitimate bulk mail manager for banks and large retailers, has reported a security breach of their data facilities. The breach may increase the number of a specific type of email fraud attempt known as "phishing". Specifically, the breach may have exposed legitimate customer email addresses of firms including Capital One, JP Morgan Chase, the Marriot hotel chain and Kroger Foods was also affected. Phishing occurs when a fraudulent email is sent that appears to be from a legitimate source and asks you to login and/or change your authentication tokens. Because these emails can look virtually identical to a real email from your one of the affected companies, it can be very difficult to discern the fraud from the real thing. When in doubt, contact the company in question and verify that the email is from them before responding. Always approach all email correspondence of this nature with doubt, unless you personally generated the request for such an email. |
