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Security News for the Week Ending November 8, 2019

Comcast Testing Encrypted DNS While Lobbing Against It Encrypted DNS (either DoH or DoT) has become a political hotbutton.  Recently Vice reported that Comcast is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars lobbying against it.  Mozilla is writing to Congress saying that what Comcast is saying is not true and most interestingly, Comcast is testing its […]

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What is YOUR Guess of the Losses From Cybercrime? TOO LOW!

How much does cyber crime cost us anyway?  I rant about it all the time, but really, in dollars, what does it cost?  Different researchers give different answers and your mileage may vary, but here are some answers: Cybercrime makes, AT LEAST, $1.5 trillion more than the drug trade Cybercrime would rank as the 13th largest economy […]

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Security News for the Week Ending November 1, 2019

Johannesburg, South Africa Attacker Threatens Data Breach In what I think is going to be the way of the future, hackers compromised Joburg IT systems and threatened to publish data that they stole if the ransom is not paid.  As I write this, the deadline has just passed, they have not paid the ransom, the […]

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