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Security News Bites for the Week Ending March 22, 2019

If privacy matters in your life, it should matter to the phone your life is on Apple is launching a major ad campaign to run during March Madness with the tagline “If privacy matters in your life, it should matter to the phone your life is on.  Privacy.  That’s iPhone“. Since Apple’s business model is […]

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Facebook Stored Millions (Billions?) of Passwords Unencrypted for Years

Seems like Facebook can’t catch a break.  Whether it is Cambridge Analytica or one of the many other scandals plaguing the company, it seems like the only news coverage they get is bad coverage. This time it is information that Facebook logged users’ passwords in plain text for anyone to read, stored those logs on […]

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Norsk Hydro Ransomware Attack Impacts Price of Aluminum

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 […]

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Security News bites for the Week Ending March 15, 2019

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 […]

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