We had a client contact us because their homepage (aroundhawaii.com) was loading a website that was asking for reCAPTCHA verification and asking to allow popups.  First thought was that there was a malicious extension redirecting the homepage.  They indeed had a known malicious extension that was installed, but upon removal, the website persisted.  When attempting to load the aroundhawaii.com website on another device, the website was the same.  It appears that since the acquisition of Oceanic Time Warner Cable by Charter Cable, attention to their websites have become less of a priority.  A whois check still shows that the domain is still owned by Time Warner Cable so it must be that their website was compromised to inject a malicious redirect.

If you have had aroundhawaii.com as your homepage in your web browser and you are getting this website, do not accept notifications as it will allow notification based ads in your web browser.  Go into the browser settings and change your homepage to get rid of this issue.

Just like Windows Vista and Windows XP before it, Windows 7 will soon lose long term support from Microsoft.  What does this mean for you?

Microsoft has released their latest feature update for Windows 10 dubbed the Spring Creator's Update or April 2018 Update and there are already issues.

There has been three variants of the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerability in the wild until today.

Two huge vulnerabilities has been discovered that affect the security of most computing devices around the world. The vulnerabilities called Meltdown and Spectre works by exploiting a flaw in a processor optimization technique called speculative execution.