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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Netflix might be the new Sony. As a result of the Sony breach, 5 full length movies were released on pirate movie web sites. Among the movies released were Annie and Fury, along with three others. Now Netflix is in the hackers’ radar. In addition to the entire new season of Orange is the New […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While I have whined that HTTPS:// is not super secure, it is certainly way more secure then not using HTTPS. Technically known as SSL or more correctly TLS, when you type HTTPS://, it signals the web browser to work with the web site to encrypt all of your information. For the last year or two, Google […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Since we all know that misery loves company, it may bring some comfort that even Facebook and Google can fall victim to business email compromise scams. In one way, that makes perfect sense since the weak link is always people. On the other hand, you would think that big companies like Facebook and Google would […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In spite of the salacious sounding title, even though The post discusses social media, it IS suitable for work. What is not suitable for work is what people are doing online. Grindr, a social media platform catering to gay and bi-sexual men is being sued by Matthew Herrick who says that 1,100 men have showed […]
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