As if ransomware wasn’t bad enough in the past. As if ransomware 2.0 didn’t make you lose sleep. If you thought that the pandemic was slowing down cyberattacks. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. We are seeing new ransomware strains pop up at an alarming rate. In just the past couple of months […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Cloudflare DNS Goes Down Taking A Big Chunk of the Internet Down Good news and bad news. For companies like Shopify, League of Legends and Politico, among many others, Friday afternoon gave you a headache. You outsourced your DNS to Cloudflare and they had a burp. The good news is that because they are Cloudflare […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]So you thought only companies like Microsoft and Google had terms of service. Apparently that is not the case. I keep talking about the horror that ransomware 2.0 is with hackers stealing the data before they encrypt it and threatening to publish the data if you don’t pay. That means backups alone are not sufficient […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Hacking is today’s preferred method of espionage. It is easier and far less risky than the old school version of putting a person in the organization and risking their life. So what is in the news recently. First, Russian hackers at the FSB, sort of like our FBI – sort of. They are mainly responsible […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Digicert to Incinerate 50,000 Certificates this Weekend Due to a process failure, Digicert is going to invalidate about 50,000 SSL (TLS) certificates this weekend. This is happening with only 5 days notice. If Digicert is your certificate provider, make sure that your certificate is not one that is going into the bonfire. Credit: The Register […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]People who know me know that I am always railing against people who want to curb encryption, but encryption does present legitimate problems. Firefox Send is a great program that allows users to encrypt data – large files – and send a link to a recipient to allow them to download the file. I use […]
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