Hey – winter in Alaska might even be worse than it is in Minnesota. From the Smithsonian.
This is a race where no one wants to be number two. LOL
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.
620 million records from 16 websites listed for sale on the Dark Web
The Register reports that a seller on the Dream Market – a Dark Web marketplace hidden by the encrypted layers of Tor – began offering 16 stolen databases with 620 million accounts.
First it was location, now every app wants your contacts
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Russia has announced plans to temporarily “disconnect” itself from the global Internet. What does this mean for Russia, its citizens, and the rest of the world that is connected to the World Wide Web?
Russia is not the first country to disconnect the Internet. In January the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo turned off its Internet during the presidential elections there. ...
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Lately there have been a spate of incidents involving smartphone apps for the iPhone and Android phones that were discovered to be malicious in various ways. The important commonality in these revelations was that cyber-criminals had actually modified legitimate apps by hijacking several developer’s credentials, including their “Developer Certificate.” The developer key provides a digital signature that validates the app as being ...
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Looking at a career in IT? Got a techie kid heading off to college? Or just trying to puff some life into your current IT career?
I found this list in a report from training company Global Knowledge and thought it was worth passing on. Not surprisingly, the big bucks are going to IT professionals with certifications and experience in hot, in-demand sectors such as cloud computing, project management, ...
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I was surprised when I started teaching the CompTIA A+ class how much of the course was devoted to printer problems. Then I had three calls in the same week from clients with printer problems. This is a big source of computer problems, and based on the following cartoon, has been for a long time. From Pinterest. Enjoy.
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.
The Computer Programmer Who Ran a Global Drug Trafficking Empire
A new book uncovers the intricacies of Paul Le Roux’s cartel and how it fueled the opioid epidemic ravaging the U.S. today. This fascinating story is covered in detail on the Smithsonian website. Or read Evan Ratliff’s new book The Mastermind. I ...
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Virtualization and containerization technologies allow developers, pentesters, network admins and server admins to create multiple virtual instances of a computer system, running inside the actual, physical host system. This is an easy way to quickly deploy and manage dozens or even hundreds of systems used in a learning lab, test network, or even to run full fledged user systems on a single server.
Virtual machines (VM) are created using hypervisor products ...
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In our last post we singled out North Korea as a key source of cyber-war action against the United States and other countries. But they are not the only countries that the US is actively engaged with in cyber-space. On January 29, 2019, Daniel Coats, Director of National Intelligence, released a report to the Senate, titled Worldwide Threat Assessment ...
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I will be giving this presentation for the second time at Joule. If you are curious about the Dark Web and would like to see what it is all about, sign up for this presentation here.
Tuesday . February 26 . 10:00A-11:30A
George Latimer Central Library –
Nicholson WIN Center 3rd Floor
90 W 4th Street Saint Paul, MN 55102
What is the ...
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