ATLANTA HIT BY RANSOMWARE ATTACK Atlanta, GA is the most recent city to get hit by a ransomware attack – on Thursday, March 22. Cities seem to be a hot target, likely because they are big, public and behind the private sector when it comes to IT and cyber security (One of Atlanta’s Councilman said “As […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]DHS released a report this week regarding BOD 16-02. A BOD or Binding Operational Directive is DHS’s way of telling executive branch agencies that they have to do something. Like really. In this case the issue is that hackers were abusing bugs in Internet routers, specifically Cisco routers. Why Cisco? Because they are the biggest […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The United States Department of Justice has charged 9 Iranian nationals for theft of intellectual property from hundreds of colleges and universities, dozens of U.S. companies, Federal agencies, state governments and the United Nations. DoJ Values the theft to be IN EXCESS OF THREE BILLION DOLLARS. That is likely a very conservative number. The defendants […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This time, the data that Facebook is mining is your call data and your text message data. But there is a difference. In this case, Facebook says that it asked permission when you installed Messenger or Facebook Lite. However, the default was to collect the data and it was not very clear to users that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It was only a matter of time. Researchers say that they have discovered “things” on the blockchain. Not so nice things. Like child porn. If true, and I have no reason to doubt the researchers, that would make possession of a copy of the blockchain illegal in 112 countries. And, since we know that you […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Meltdown and Spectre, the twin vulnerabilities affecting Intel and many other processors, has been a moving target. Patches followed by “unpatches” when those patches caused computers to reboot randomly. Then there were the software patches that slowed down computers by from 5% to 30%. The process of mitigating these vulnerabilities has been way more complicated […]
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