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Security News bites for the Week Ending March 15, 2019

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Jackson County Pays $400,000 in Ransomware Following a ransomware attack on March 1st, 2019, Jackson County, Georgia decided to pay hackers a ransom of $400,000. The county population is 67,000 according to Google. While hackers may not be explicitly targeting these small municipalities, they may be. After all, small municipalities likely have poor cybersecurity practices […]

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Security News Bites for the Week Ending February 8, 2019

February 8, 2019 CyberCecurity Leave a comment

Text Messaging for Two Factor Authentication is Under Attack We have talked on occasion about a basically theoretical attack against text messages as the second factor for authentication. It is likely that the feds know more than they are telling us about that since the National Institute of Standards and Technology has deprecated the use […]

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