Minneapolis City Web Sites Hit by Denial of Service Attacks Last Thursday, early in the morning, a number of City of Minneapolis web sites were disabled by denial of service attacks. The attacks are short lived and the city was able to restore most of the services within a few hours. It is certainly possible […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As software makers start to take security more seriously, hackers are becoming more creative. When Apple and Microsoft started doing a better job of finding and patching bugs in their operating systems more quickly, hackers started looking at other applications installed on users’ computers. As the makers of the other software installed on computers started […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It used to be that when the phone rang, it was someone with an African accent telling you that he was from Windows technical support calling you because your computer was infected. You hung up. Scammers have gotten much smarter. Unfortunately. Here are two recent examples. This guy got taken for $10,000. Mitch (him, not […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]O P I N I O N Full disclosure: it will be obvious which side of the conversation I am on pretty quickly. The FBI has been trying to ban end to end encryption – any encryption that they can’t break at will – for decades now. They charged Phil Zimmerman with crimes and almost […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Your home Internet connection router or modem is the front line of defense against Internet intruders. Think of it as soldiers “manning the wall”, armed to the teeth, ready to repel intruders. At least, hopefully repelling intruders. But what if, instead of that scenario, your guards had turned into Benedict Arnold and were working for […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As more of our computing world lives inside a browser, the risk goes up. As we move to Work From Home, the risk goes up again because we no longer have corporate infrastructure to chop off the top few layers of attacks. Also many of us have kids that either share our computer or share […]
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