As more users install ad blocking software and browsers such as Firefox and Safari start blocking some ad trackers by default, advertisers decided to come up with a new solution to track everything you do. This new technique is a bit technical, but I will try to keep it high level. Typically, the company tracking […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Problem with Big Data is, Well, That it is Big On October 16th researchers revealed that they had found an exposed database with 4 billion records covering 1.2 billion people. The first database contained information on 1.5 billion unique people (note these numbers do not exactly match) including work phone numbers and mobile phone […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Yesterday’s list was so long I decided to break it into two posts. Here is the second part. To recap – here are some recommendations from Dark Reading. Most people will pick and choose from this list, but pick some today and then come back in a week or a month and pick a few […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As my son likes to say, nothing it bulletproof – it all depends on the size of the bullet. Likewise, nothing is 100% secure (except the computer that has never been taken out of the box) but your actions can improve the odds dramatically. Here are some recommendations from Dark Reading. Most people will pick […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Malware is like any other piece of software. Version one is usually pretty crappy – want vendors like to affectionately call a “minimum viable product”. Sometime minimal is loosely defined. In this case the malware is called GINP. The trojan has been in the wild since June. In the five months since, it has evolved. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As I have been saying for a while, hackers are good at evolving. As we see more and more ransomware attacks, a lot of the people are opting not to pay the ransom and instead deal with reconstructing their infrastructure and losing data (like police losing digital evidence and having to let crooks go). So […]
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