I have gotten more notices on this particular alert than usual, so I suspect that means that there is more fire than anyone is admitting. The FBI, Homeland Security and Health and Human Services issued a joint alert that hospitals and other public health organizations are being targeted by malware, especially ransomware. They are calling […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Is TikTok is Going to Sell to Oracle. Maybe Well sale is not really the right word. They call it a “trusted tech partner”. This does not solve the national security problem, so it is not clear what problem this does solve. None the less, Steve Mnuchin will present it to the President. If it […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Ransomware is an Equal Opportunity Business As American businesses deal with ever increasing ransomware attacks, larger ransom demands and ransom and extortion wrapped up together, we are not alone. Not that the fact that we are not alone should make us feel better. A new Iranian hacker group is using Dharma ransomware to go after […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]You know that if publications like Forbes are running pieces on preparing for ransomware attacks that things must be getting bad. The Forbes piece, written by former Deputy Undersecretary for Cybersecurity at DHS Mark Weatherford is good, but it leaves out a few things (I am guessing that Forbes gave Mark a word limit). We […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As if ransomware wasn’t bad enough in the past. As if ransomware 2.0 didn’t make you lose sleep. If you thought that the pandemic was slowing down cyberattacks. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. We are seeing new ransomware strains pop up at an alarming rate. In just the past couple of months […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Cloudflare DNS Goes Down Taking A Big Chunk of the Internet Down Good news and bad news. For companies like Shopify, League of Legends and Politico, among many others, Friday afternoon gave you a headache. You outsourced your DNS to Cloudflare and they had a burp. The good news is that because they are Cloudflare […]
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