Cybersecurity professionals are in agreement. The Russians appear to have been actively engaged in influencing the outcome of our recent Presidential election. Specifics include compromising and taking over Hilary Clinton’s chief of staff, John Podesta’s personal Gmail account. This spear phishing exploit used a “near-miss” domain name of “accounts.googlemail.com” to trick John into clicking on a link and and entering his email credentials. The real domain name is accounts.google.com.
There was also a ...
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It was recently reported in Naked Security that a Seattle television news crew interviewed an Office Depot employee who alerted them to the practice of selling in-store repair scams to customers who came in looking for computer help. This whistle-blower told a story where employees where encouraged and even pressured to run the chain’s “PC Health Check” on evey computer ...
I was tempted to post this article late in October, when Brian Krebs suffered with the DDoS attack on his website, or when the Mirai botnet attack on DynDNS was in full swing, but decided to wait it out until after the election, in case it turns out that the Dyn attack was a precursor to an attack to disrupt the elections. And as of today, it appears that it was not.
I don’t like to get political in this web log, but since the mainstream parties have given us what is possibly the worst two choices in Presidential candidates since the Revolution, may I suggest voting 
In the last several days, we have seen big distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against DynDNS, an Internet services company that provides domain name services (DNS) to many companies including Twitter and PayPal. DNS is how web sites are found on the web, you enter a web address in your browser, and DNS finds the website you are looking for. When attacked in this ...
We were interviewed again by Sarah Westall on her web radio show 
We have written about Stuxnet a couple of times. (