Docusign is one of the major eSigning providers in the country. eSigning allows customers to electronically sign documents instead of having to go somewhere to place a pen on paper and sign those documents with ink. As a result of this convenience, eSigning is extremely popular. It is used in every industry vertical where document […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATE (5/16) – Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) is still reeling from the effects of WannaCry. Some say that 95% of the NHS computers are still running Windows XP, which Microsoft stopped supporting over 3 years ago and for which there was no patch to block this malware. Many people attribute the fact that these […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While President Trump continues to deny that Russia interfered with the U.S. Elections, even though many other very knowledgeable people say the opposite, other countries are not so casual about it. Germany’s domestic intelligence agency chief says that Russia gathered large amounts of data in cyber attacks and no one knows what they will do […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]OK, so the title is a little dramatic. In this case, while the good guys became bad accidentally, but it doesn’t make the situation any better. Here are the details. There is a piece of Windows called the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine or MsMpEng. Apparently, a bug was introduced several versions ago that allows at […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]According to NBC, the FBI projected ransomware payments to hit a billion dollars in 2016 (Note that stats seem to be hard to find, so I don’t know if the FBI thinks that number was reached). In 2015, they said the number was $24 million. That is a bit of a growth curve – 41x […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I have said, in the past, how come the government doesn’t warn companies when they have intel that the companies are targets of hackers? Well, we did get one data point on that after the DNC hack last year, but now we have more data points. As a reminder about what happened last year, the […]
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