by Ken Tola | Dec 16, 2017 | Security
Ransomware Is The New Endgame We are now seeing the reality of a new wave of hacker activity devoted to shutting down largescale targets for ransom. A few weeks ago it was a county in North Carolina, this week it is one in California. While those attacks are bad,...
by Ken Tola | Dec 12, 2017 | Security
Feeling The Heat Finally, after all of our consumer pain, companies are feeling the heat. From being forced to pay massive settlements to entire C-Suites being fired, corporations are starting to experience the same digital misery most consumers have faced for years....
by Ken Tola | Dec 11, 2017 | Security
Withdrawal Fees? Today an article revealed that hackers are stealing money directly from ATM machines and, better yet, nobody can stop these attacks as they spread across the world. For those following these types of events, this is just another failing of the SWIFT...
by Ken Tola | Dec 8, 2017 | Security
BitCoin Hacked! Today another major hack occurred with intruders obtained $75M in bitcoin from a cryptocurrency exchange in Slovenia. This is actually not the first BitCoin hack, nor is it even the biggest attack on cryptocurrency. At the same time, we keep hearing...
by Ken Tola | Dec 6, 2017 | Security
Do You Believe Us Now? A while ago, we blogged about the real threat hackers posed and yet we heard nothing back. We warned you then that simply grabbing data or shutting down a service provider was not the true threat. We tried to explain that cities and regions...
by Ken Tola | Dec 4, 2017 | Security
The Hard Way I was discussing malware with a couple of experts last week and they immediately focused on how to prevent malware from being downloaded and how to detect malware in an operating system. This is the classic approach that I often refer to as The Hard Way....
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