Medical Practice Closes After Ransomware Attack Wood Ranch Medical is closing their doors permanently after a ransomware attack. The attackers not only encrypted the practice’s data, but also its backups. In April 2019, the Brookside ENT and Hearing Center in Battle Creek also closed after a ransomware attack. Ransomware attacks are just one reason why […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]O P I N I O N This is not really an opinion piece, but some people might think it is, so I will go for over disclosure and call it that. The Feds really don’t like encryption. It gets in their way when they want to do mass surveillance or even targeted surveillance. For […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Attorney General Barr said that he wants an encryption back door and if it compromises your privacy, well, we are not talking about protecting nuclear launch codes. So we know where he stands. What came as a bit of a surprise is that Facebook says that they are going to build a back door into […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]According to a report released by cloud security vendor Zscaler, 91% of the traffic that they saw coming through their network security devices from IoT “things” was NOT encrypted. This is on enterprise networks where one might think that security is more important, so maybe the number is even higher on home networks, although it […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If you believe all of the news reports, quantum computers are here and can break all of the encryption that we have ever used. A bit hyperbolic. Dorothy Denning, a very well know security researcher who has written 4 books and over 200 articles while teaching at Purdue, Georgetown and the Naval Postgraduate School wrote […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Paul Manafoft, President Trump’s former campaign manager, is in trouble with the Feds. Again. Federal prosecutors say that Manafort attempted to tamper with witnesses to make sure that their testimony coordinated with his. How the feds found out is that they got a warrant for his iCloud account. Whatsapp and Telegram messages backed up to […]
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