Aluminum Giant Norsk Hydro was hit with a ransomware attack this week. The attack has forced the company to shut down several plants and take other other plants offline to stop the spread of the attack. Other plants were operating in “manual” mode. The Norwegian company employs 35,000 employees in 40 countries. They report that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]NOTE: This is a bit of a rant on my part, but I will get to the good stuff further down. Sorry, but I think the subject is important. While the fact that Google is finally trying to counter Apple’s various ad campaigns such as their CES ad below and their March Madness ad campaign”if […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Jackson County Pays $400,000 in Ransomware Following a ransomware attack on March 1st, 2019, Jackson County, Georgia decided to pay hackers a ransom of $400,000. The county population is 67,000 according to Google. While hackers may not be explicitly targeting these small municipalities, they may be. After all, small municipalities likely have poor cybersecurity practices […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Hackers have figured out how to attack Office 365 and Google G-Suite accounts protected by Multi Factor Authentication (MFA). No, this is not a bug in some software and no it is not hyper-sophisticated attack. In fact, it is very old school. First, as best I understand, it is a limited attack so it is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As an experiment, researchers at the University of Bonn posed as a client trying to develop software. They hired 43 freelance software developers from Freelancer.com for either 100 Euros or 200 Euros. They asked the freelancers to develop a small part of a fictitious web site, the site’s registration system. Since this was a university […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Lets assume your company uses Box Enterprise – just as an example. And then assume that your employees create a file or a folder and want to share it with someone, so they create a link. In the case of Box, the link URLs can be randomly generated or created by the user. A little […]
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