OK, don’t everyone run and close your IRA and put the money under your mattress. First of all, it would probably make your mattress lumpy and sleep difficult. It is important to understand this issue and you need to ask your IRA administrator some tough questions. Here is this story. In June 2018 a con […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Intel and, to a lesser extent, AMD and ARM have been collecting a lot of attention in the last year or so for bugs in their silicon. As everyone tries to tweak every last drop of performance out of their systems or do new and creative things, the risk of a problem increases. But Apple […]
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