This is hot off the press. Yesterday Malwarebytes announced a beta of a new anti-crypto software product designed to stop CryptoWall4, CryptoLocker, Tesla, and CTB-Locker. You can download the beta here.
According to Malwarebytes:
Continue Reading →“Malwarebytes Anti-Ransomware monitors all activity in the computer and identifies actions which are typical of ransomware activity. It keeps track of all activity and, once it has enough ...
I recently had my second interview with freelancer Carolyn Heinze, and the questions were so interesting I decided to replicate the interview in a couple of posts this week.
From: Carolyn Heinze
Subject: Interview Request – tED Magazine
Dear Bob,
I interviewed you a while back for an article on ransomware that appeared in ChannelPro. I’m working on another article for which I thought you’d make a great source. Here’s the scoop:
I am writing an article on cyber security, and more specifically, ...
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A virtual private network, or VPN, is a type of network computer connection that creates a private encrypted communications channel, commonly called a “tunnel,” when using insecure networks, such as in hotels and coffee shops, or when communicating over the Internet. Many businesses provide a VPN connection for their mobile and traveling employees. This means that when out of the office, a worker can open the VPN and be connected to ...
I will be presenting a cybersecurity Lunch and Learn event that is sponsored by St Paul SCORE, Wells Fargo Bank, and Computer Integration Technologies, Inc. You can register here. This event is open to the public. I hope to see you there!
There are many online accounts that would be bad to lose control of, such as your Amazon, eBay, PayPal, or bank account. But by the far the worst account to lose is your email account. If I can trick you into giving me your email user ID and password, by using a phishing email, or phone pretext call, I will be in. I can start off by simply observing, as I read your ...
This post is a shout out to my peers in the cybersecurity profession, and especially those who would like to join us. I found these sites in two separate posts on Checkmarx blog. I have not had an opportunity to try them all out, but they are on my to do list. Most of these sites involve compromising intentionally vulnerable web ...
Quick answer: Yes it can! A recent article in Bloomberg goes deeply into this subject, and reveals the experiences of a white hat hacker named Billy Rios. Billy and many others in the profession had been hired by the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota in 2013 to try to hack all the medical devices in the hospital that were connected to the network. ...
Passwords – Is mine strong enough? How do I know? Every time I write a password article I feel as if this subject has already been done to death by me and others. But I always get more positive feedback on this subject than others I consider more interesting, so we offer the following suggestions:
At the November meeting of Penguins Unbound, the local Linux Users Group, I was introduced to a group of people from CryptoPartyMN. These guys and gals are serious about anonymity on the web. On of the resources they discussed was a great website called Security in a Box. If you would like to learn how to be more secure in your online communications, this is certainly ...
I am getting posts from the FBI and the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), and received this interesting warning on November 18th of last year. This warning was sent to law enforcement and public officials, but if you have come to the point in your life were you are feeling a bit overexposed on the Internet, these tips can help you too.
For some of us, a few of these suggestions ...
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