A thousand-fold increase in crypto malware (AKA ransomware) is a pretty impressive number. The reason is that it is like taking candy from a baby – not very hard. Rather than having to figure out how to break into a computer, then figure out where the juicy data is, next getting it back to you without […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]About a year ago, Android users were fighting something called the Stagefright bug. Buried deep in the bowels of the operating system was a series of bugs that would allow an attacker to send you a specially crafted text message and take over your Android phone. Stagefright affected close to a billion phones in the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights, the government entity that manages the privacy of health care information that you share with doctors and others, has issued new guidance on ransomware. While technically, it only applies to organizations that they regulate, in reality, almost everything they said applies equally to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A recent Ponemon Institute study revealed what a lot of us have been saying for a long time. Despite spending millions of dollars, 79 percent of the IT and IT security staff reported that their ability to identify and stop threats are either non-existent, ad hoc or inconsistently applied throughout the enterprise. The companies participating […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]IT World Canada ran an article the other day regarding the payment of ransom at the University of Calgary. The piece is almost an editorial as the writer beat the University up for paying the ransom. Here is the story that the article laid out. In June the University was infected with a “significant malware […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Target Board can breathe a little easier today – although they are not out of the woods yet – in that the shareholders who filed a series of derivative actions have agreed that the cases can be dismissed as long as they can come back for legal fees. The lawsuits claim that Target’s directors […]
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