Louisiana National Guard Called in to Help Local Election Officials According to tips, the state of Louisiana had to call out the National Guard after some number of small government offices across the state were hit by ransomware. Experts say the tools have the hallmarks of the North Koreans, so all of the major attackers […]
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I have gotten more notices on this particular alert than usual, so I suspect that means that there is more fire than anyone is admitting. The FBI, Homeland Security and Health and Human Services issued a joint alert that hospitals and other public health organizations are being targeted by malware, especially ransomware. They are calling […]
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For those of you who read my blog regularly, you know that I have spent a lot of digital ink on the hype-machine called 5G Cellular. Well, I am not about to stop now 🙂 . Sorry. Honestly, my complaint is NOT about the tech or its importance, but rather how long it is going […]
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The Finland-based psychotherapy group Psychotherapy Center Vastaamo may need some therapy itself. They claim that in late 2018-early 2019 hackers broke into their network. Just this month it has come out that the company, which has 20+ offices and 300 or so shrinks may have lost the data of 40,000 patients, some of whom are […]
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With the release of Windows 10 20H2, Microsoft is now preventing access to the venerable SYSTEM control panel and is instead redirecting users to the newly updated ‘About’ settings page. The SYSTEM control panel was first introduced in Windows NT 3.51 and Windows 95 and provides information about the installed version of Windows, the bit-type […]
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Iran or Russia – Who Should We Worry About? The FBI and the US government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Thursday issued a joint warning that a Kremlin hacking crew is probing or breaking into systems belonging to the US government and aviation industry. The joint advisory states that the team, known as Energetic Bear among […]
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